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No luck with Multitouch yet, just single touch. Al least got enough for loging in an moving around menus and logs. Also, I can poke and feed the fishes in my screensaver, but the multitouch and scrolling textures would be great to use the browser in a touchphone fashion.
Just to let you know people.
I am installing a new brand Dell T110 Server with 8 cores Intel Xenon 64 and of course all new hardware out of the “server mind” is giving me hell. At least with the help of this forum, I was able to make work (at least partially) a WinTV HVR1850 card with WinTV 7. This is what I had to do:
1-Remove WinTV drivers, Win TV 7, and leftovers using their hcwclear.exe.
2-I used the scripts in this forum (bdaforserver.rar file) posted earlier and followed the instructions there, but in my case it didn’t work as it is (it need a small mod). First, I don’t have a Windows 7 64 bit machine to get the needed files that the instructions ask. So I had to get a Windows 7 64bit DVD image mounted and using 7-Zip I was able to retrieve these files one by one and place them in the “bdaforserversourcex64…” directory.
3-Now I moved the bdaforserver directories to the root of my Server and using a command window as Administrator ran the “Setup BDA.bat”. Looking into the bat file, it is supposed to run in a flash without seeing what happen, and then the server restart. So, I first eliminated the echo off at the beginning and the shutdown at the end, so give me a chance to see if things evolve ok. Now I ran it!
4-A few troubles can be seen right away (fortunately I modified the bat file) . As somebody already report, the line text:
%systemroot%System32DriverStoreFileRepositorybda.inf_57d991b5bdasup.sys
Has to be changed (at least in my Dell server) to:
%systemroot%System32DriverStoreFileRepositorybda.inf_amd64_neutral_41c6262952846788bdasup.sys
This is the only bda.inf_…. option I have in my FileRepository directory in the server. I confess that the _amd64_ in the name of my directory scared me since my server is a Intel (no Amd) but the directory that the bat file calls is not in my server 2008 R2 and of course gives an error in the copy. No other possibility and using this other alternative worked for me.
Another trouble is that there were a couple files in both, System32 and SysWOW64 directories that didn’t move as the bat script intended (the bat returned an access denied error), but apparently this was because the files already existed in my computer and were being used. The ones in my computer appear to be the same (at least same time stamp and length) If you care, there were kswdmcap.ax.mui and mpg2splt.ax.
5- I merged the analogue1.reg file (i.e. right click on it and Merge) for the analog stuff that is actually what I need.
6- Now I reset (remember I removed the shutdown in the bat file)
7-Now I do a new driver installation of my HVR1850 video card that still reported a “driver install unsuccessful” error, keep going anyway and install Windows TV7 and the install appears to be ok.
8- I check the Device Manger to see the possible driver errors and there are 4 Unknown Devices, however the driver for the HVR1850 appears ok. I wonder if has to do with the remote or IR blaster that I don’t use in the card.
9- I run Win TV and yes it appears I can load channels and see ATSC and Analog TV, no the FM radio however. I can not even load channels on the radio.
10- I tried the little AMCap program (that you can find easily in the net) and works even better (much less delay than WIN TV7 and Radio is ok). Just for analog however.Also, not sure if needed for the purpose of this, but I disabled the ridiculous 8MB embedded video adapter in my motherboard and got a decent cheap PCIe video card with 512MB.
Also for the audio I installed a SoundBlaster X-FI PCIe (this server only has PCIe slots) the computer came with not audio chipset or adapter at all.On top of this I got a Multi touch Acer T230H screen, but after activating the whole desktop experience, tablet, etc, I only get single touch, this needs further work. Not sure why this not behave the same than Windows 7.
My idea is to set the server and screen in the Kitchen so it can be used to watch TV and Videos and controlled right on the screen. Of course, it works as a server for the house, media, small home business data center and domain controller, and finally a beautiful fish tank most of the time.
Cheers.
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