Hi Shachar > Hi Mark, > > I'm not sure I understood your question correctly. Fair enough! I'm not sure if this driver is considered a 'hardware driver'. Let me know. There is a piece of audio equipment I've just ordered for my Windows XP studio environment shown here: http://www.digidesign.com/products/digi002rack/ Probably the important thing for you to know (I think!) About this piece of hardware is that it is a 1394 device. In a Windows environment you just attach it to any 1394 interface and use it. So as far as I know the Windows interface is their standard 1394 set of low level drivers. The 002 sits above that. This piece of hardware comes with two pieces of software (that I know of) 1) The Pro Tool LE application. (PTLE) I assume today that whether this runs under Wine would be a standard Wine deal. Install it if the installer works. Deal with configuration. Maybe move dlls and the like over from the Windows side. All of that I understand. (Conceptually. I don't do it so well!) 2) An '002 driver' that allows the PTLE app to talk to the hardware through the standard Windows 1394 driver stack. So, the hardware *inside* the box is standard 1394 hardware. If Wine has begun to talk to Linux-1394 then that's the first step, but beyond that there is what I would call the 'DigiDesign 002 Protocol Driver' that's required to actually make it work. What are your thoughts? If you need more info let me know. > > If your application merely comes with a hardware device, and this device > has a 100% standard driver (and the application is actually using the > device through the standard interfaces), and this device also has a > Linux driver, then there is no reason for Wine not to correctly run this > application. Basically, you need to configure your Linux box to support > the device through the Linux driver, and then install the app and let it > understand that the driver is already installed. > > If, on the other hand, the application requires this particular audio > device, and this particular driver, there is a good chance that it > communicates with the driver in interfaces that are beyond the standard > interfaces. I'm afriad that, in that case, the chances of this app ever > working on Wine are not high. > > Wine does not, and is not planned to, support hardware drivers designed > for Windows. > > Shachar > > -- > Shachar Shemesh > Lingnu Open Systems Consulting > http://www.lingnu.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users > > _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
