Have they managed to get this working yet?
I have a parallel driven 4x20 LCD Display on the front of my PC which does not work because LCD Smartie wont work with Windows Vista x64.
Is there any patches/fixes available?
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LCD Smartie and Vista x64 (getting annoying now!)
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There is NOTHING the LCD Smartie team can do about this. LCDSmartie uses drivers to communicate with the parallel port. These drivers are unsigned, and event though there is a x64 port of Inpout32 (that I wrote) which works, it does not work on Vista x64 because it is unsigned.
Until the latest MS hot fixes, you could disable the driver signing requirement. Also you could use a tool called Atsiv. Both of these options no longer work.
There IS a way to make it work, but its getting more difficult. The only option I am aware of now, it to press F8 at boot up and select "Disable driver signing requirement" This has to be done *every* time you boot up your computer so its hardly idea.
The only other option that I can see, is to create a signed version of inpout32 but that's going to cost, and I don't have unlimited funds to wast on subscriptions to digital certificates.
Phil
Until the latest MS hot fixes, you could disable the driver signing requirement. Also you could use a tool called Atsiv. Both of these options no longer work.
There IS a way to make it work, but its getting more difficult. The only option I am aware of now, it to press F8 at boot up and select "Disable driver signing requirement" This has to be done *every* time you boot up your computer so its hardly idea.
The only other option that I can see, is to create a signed version of inpout32 but that's going to cost, and I don't have unlimited funds to wast on subscriptions to digital certificates.
Phil