Help Componentizing NVIDIA Drivers
Sean Liming (one of MVPs), as part of his day to day consulting work on XP Embedded, has been getting a bunch of questions about componentizing NVIDIA drivers. He developed an XPe "installer" component that will install the latest NVIDIA drivers during FBA- see here for his solution.
As drivers (particularly sound and video drivers) get more and more complex it is often not as easy as importing the inf into Component Designer and creating a component that way. Many of these drivers have services associated with them, or other custom sections in the inf itself that require more user interaction to componentize the driver. These resources may be helpful to you if you are creating your own driver components:
I Need to Componentize a Third-Party Driver
I'm Having Problems Componentizing My Third-Party Audio Driver
I've Componentized a Driver and I Get Errors
For drivers that install using a self-extracting EXE you can use tools like InCtrl5 to monitor the install and see what files are being bin placed and what registry keys are being written. The more complex drivers are definitely starting to look more and more like applications and componentizing them has therefore also become more complex.
- Lynda
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