I thought I read somewhere that it was actually possible to install Windows drivers in WINE. I'm only asking because I have a Radeon 8500 on my sister's Linux box, and the Linux drivers really suck. I actually can't even install the proprietary drivers, they are so out of date. Is this possible? Owen Stairs
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 8:10 AM, Owen Stairs <olstairs at rogers.com> wrote:> I thought I read somewhere that it was actually possible to install Windows > drivers in WINE. I'm only asking because I have a Radeon 8500 on my > sister's Linux box, and the Linux drivers really suck. I actually can't > even install the proprietary drivers, they are so out of date. > > Is this possible? >No. You can NOT do that. Find the latest binary drivers from AMD/ATI directly. John
Here is a link: http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html John
to list as well ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> Date: 22 Apr 2008 13:49 Subject: Re: [Wine] Installing Windows Drivers in WINE To: Owen Stairs <olstairs at rogers.com> On 22/04/2008, Owen Stairs <olstairs at rogers.com> wrote:> I thought I read somewhere that it was actually possible to install Windows > drivers in WINE. I'm only asking because I have a Radeon 8500 on my > sister's Linux box, and the Linux drivers really suck. I actually can't > even install the proprietary drivers, they are so out of date. > Is this possible?Nope - Wine aims to supply a compatibility layer for applications. ReactOS has ambitions to support NT binary drivers, but I expect they're a way off doing so as yet. - d.
Llewen wrote:> I thought I read somewhere that it was actually possible to install Windows drivers in WINE.Yes you read correctly. You _CAN_ install drivers and some drivers might even install properly. However the only "drivers" that Wine currently supports are the copy-protection type "drivers". In most cases these drivers doing extra checks on a system to verify presence of debuggers or any other "snooping" tools. In the future it might be possible to use "filter" type drivers - like most USB drivers. They don't talk to hardware directly but interpret data received/sent from/to the device. No hardware drivers are currently supported on Wine. And most likely no real hardware drivers will ever work on Wine.