Forcing drivers to get installed on FBA

[Victor Berdin]

Hi everyone,

I'm having trouble with a dual-head video device driver to make it the
default driver for my XPE image. I already created a component for the
driver using its native inf file. But each time my image boots (with the
dual-head video component), XPE always makes use of its native/default
driver. It seems that XPE would not recognize the dual-head driver as a
favorable driver during FBA PnP process. But if will manually install the
driver using "Add Hardware....-> Manual choose the driver to
install->Display Adapters", it gets properly installed, with a warning
however, saying: "Installing this device driver is not recommended because
Windows cannot verify that it is compatible with your hardware". But even
so, the driver works!
Now, is there a way to force XPE during FBA PnP to make use of an untested
driver?
- My video chipsets are from Chips & Technologies.
- The dualhead driver I'm talking about is "Asiliant Technologies 69030
DualView"

TIA - Vic

 

[Victor Berdin]

Hi oncemore,

I think I'm close to solving this. What lacks on my XPE component (not
automatically done by mere importing of the inf) are some run-time registry
settings. I tried adding these settings in the component during design time
(and lately, also during the image's run-time via *.reg files),
unfortunately, XPE reverts some of the settings back to its default state
during reboots. Its obvious that XPE is still reading some other source info
(?) for its video settings aside from the ones that I tweaked in the
registry. I'm already in the process of finding the files(?) myself but it's
best if anyone here can help out by pointing ALL those video device related
config sources/etc.

TIA - Vic