Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Sep 1999 21:16:32 +0200 | From | Jens Benecke <> | Subject | Re: Re: Re: New Idea? Capture video settings details in Win98/etc. forXFree86 config |
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On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 09:59:56PM +0100, Jason Clifford wrote:
> > How does windows find these infos? Normally it doesn't even look for > > it. I have yet to see a Windows fresh install that does _not_ come up > > in 640x480x16. > For the most part Windows gets driver config data from .inf files > supplied as part of the driver installation.
I suspected that. So, write an .inf parser. :)
> It is not unknown for these settings to completely bollocks up a PC as > they rarely consider that the PC will already have other hardware and > Windows is none too good at handling conflicts.
No comment. :)
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