On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 08:45:06PM -1000, David Jones wrote: > >- the registry is opened and ImagePath is read (OK) > >- then StartServiceA is called -> StartServiceW -> ... -> > >ExpandEnvironmentStringsW and the ImageValue is passed back (OK) > >- now StartServiceW tries to start the service > >'System32\\Drivers\\ElbyCDIO.sys' (WRONG) > > > >I don't know the windows behaviour but I suspect that we should try to > >start the service as %WINDIR%\\<the ImagePath value> > > > >I'm running the 'wine CloneCD.exe' from the installation path of CloneCD. > > > >I'm facing more problems than this one, and probably will never use > >CloneCD on Linux but the behaviour is not correct in my opinion. > > > >Any ideas/remarks ? > > It's trying to use a Windows-specific hardware driver, a VxD. Those > cannot work under WINE because they're trying to talk directly with the > hardware, which the Linux OS doesn't allow. Considering the many times > I've had Windows crash because of flakey device drivers (even WindowsXP > Pro!), I happen to agree with the way Linux treats Windows. I might add here that I contacted ElBy about this issue about a year ago (that their program depends on some proprietary driver to operate which foils WINE, and requesting an API reference for it, so a WINE-version could be implemented), and I got a rather snide reply regarding my use of non-supported operating systems, So don't expect any help from them. -- Ryan Underwood, <nemesis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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