drivers

Is there a way to communicate with USB devices on Android?

Hello folks, I have a really short question: Is it possible to communicate/use USB devices on Android OS? I assume it might be tablet device. Lest say i want to connect some sort of USB card scanner to android tablet. Will it work? Do i need to write drivers by myself? Thanks. ...

DevMode Structure

I have files I need to drive thru a print driver and save then as files. Can I programactly use the DevMode Structure to drive these files without openning the application it was created in? Also can I change the DevMode Structure values to change to other file types programmatically and continue to drive them and save them to files? ...

Turn off the display on remote PC

Hello. I'm fixing some bugs in the application for remote control (remote desktop-like) for Windows. And there is a feature that you can blank screen on remote machine - all the programms keep running unaffected, but the person who looks into the display on remote PC sees nothing but black screen. It is implemented by sending IoCtl requ...

Device drivers and Windows

Hi, I am trying to complete the picture of how the PC and the OS interacts together. And I am at point, where I am little out of guess when it comes to device drivers. Please, don´t write things like its too complicated, or you don´t need to know when using high programming laguage and winapi functions. I want to know, it´s for study p...

How many kinds of drivers are there ?

Like device driver, I don't know whether there are some other drivers ? ...

list external drives

in java, you can use File.listRoots() to get all drives in the system. I'm looking to get only the external drives, i.e. USB drives, external hard disks, optical drives, floppy etc'. is there any way to do it in java? if not, native c++ code would be good as well. in that case, i need both windows and linux code thanks ...

How to find the Instantaneous size of the transmission buffer in Linux kernel?

I want to measure the instantaneous size of the transmission buffer or the number of packets waiting to be sent on an Ethernet interface. The problem is that the kernel takes the packet from the transmission queue and puts it in a Transmission Ring Buffer (Tx-Ring) before sending it out on the wire. Therefore: Total instantaneous size...

Offline Catalyst driver

Im trying to install ATI's graphic driver Mobility Catalyst 10.5, but it has no internet, so I am trying to burn it from my stationary PC and use it at the laptop. However, I cant find a decent version of the thing, not even with the so called "solution pack" which I despise. Does anyone know where I can get a decent download of an offl...

Virtual drivers with Windows Driver Model - where to begin?

I've never written drivers before but I'm starting an open-source project that involves creating virtual MIDI ports that will send the MIDI data over a network. For this, I presume I would be creating some sort of virtual driver using WDM (unless it's possible with kernel hooks?) - but being a beginner to driver development I don't know...

linking/version problem with libxerces-c

I am trying to make an example of a toolkit work, but after typing make, I got the following error: g++ -o taskintro taskintro.o `PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig pkg-config orocos-ocl-gnulinux orocos-rtt-gnulinux --libs` /usr/bin/ld: warning: libxerces-c-3.0.so, needed by /usr/local/lib/liborocos-rtt-gnulinux.so, not found (tr...

device drivers vs driver stack

What is the difference between a driver (device drivers) and a driver stack? I keep hearing people talking about "driver stacks" but I have never really heard of this before... Thanks! ...

ATA TRIM Specification?

Hi, Anyone know where I'd find an ATA reference that details the protocol for triggering a TRIM? I'm looking to discover what sort of structure/object/data I'd need to send in a raw IOCTL to get an ATA device to trigger a TRIM (assuming appropriate hardware/firmware support, obviously). Thanks. ...

Command-line tool to dump all Device Properties displayed in Device Manager

In Device Manager, clicking on a specific device takes you to a dialog box, whose Details tab shows all sorts of properties of the device. Is there a command line tool to dump this out? I need to diff all the properties of two devices. ...

x64 ODBC drivers

I'm looking for x64 ODBC drivers (specifically Acces and Excel), so that i can test my code on more than just SQL. Do any exist yet, and if so where can i get them? Thanks ...

How to configure PCI-to-PCI bridge device in VxWorks?

I'm working with board support package (BSP) in VxWorks that uses pciAutoConfig() to configure the PCI bus. When I add an Ethernet controller card to the bus the pci display routines do not show the card. Using a bus analyzer I discovered that the Ethernet adapter actually consists of a PCI-to-PCI bridge with two Ethernet controllers ...

Software to receive printjobs and forward them to printers in a LAN

I want to create a software which windows will detect it as a installed printer driver and list that software under "Devices and Printers" Just like the ImagePrinter sowftware, you can access it through following link. http://sourceforge.net/projects/imageprinter/ when this Image Printer is installed on a computer, windows lists it un...

are device drivers specific to device controllers or peripheral devices?

it is said that device drivers are specific to device controllers but whenever a new hardware is connected to the system, say a mobile handset we need to install the specific device drivers for that mobile handset. this indicates that device drivers are peripheral specific!! can someone explain this?? thanks in advance Regards Ankita ...

Where can I find resources on developing a PostScript printer for Windows 7

I'm developing a virtual printer to accept print jobs and route them to real printers in a LAN. I'm hoping to create a postscript printer to act as a shared virtual printer to accept print jobs from the LAN, I hope to develop it through ghostscript and redmon. If you can please let me know any online resources, examples or any tutorials...

Is there difference between system drivers and user-made drivers? (Windows,Unix)

Hi, I recently made my first device to PC connection using USB. for Pc side, I used LibUSB-win32 library. This experience made me think - are system drivers (those who came with OS) written on some special level, which cannot be achieved otherwise? More exactly, are they so deep integrated into OS that no user-written driver can be writt...

Writing a keyboard device driver

I was wondering if anybody out there has had experience writing keyboard device drivers. I know the basics of how keyboard interrupts work however don't really know the details of everything. Is it difficult? Too difficult for one person? I ask this because recently I purchased a Apple keyboard and the windows driver doesn't seem to rec...