I'm not sure if this answers your question, but... the intention of Vista's audio sysfx design is that the manufacturer that supplies the audio hardware solution also provides any sysfx. It is not intended for separate parties to provide sysfx for other audio hardware. The sysfx APOs are supposed to be installed as part of the driver installation. Frank Yerrace Microsoft Corporation This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. -----Original Message----- From: wdmaudiodev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdmaudiodev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of William R. Huttel Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 11:18 AM To: wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [wdmaudiodev] Adding Vista APOs to IHV driver I'm trying to add an APO to a Vista system which has an IHV-supplied driver. I'm using a .INF derived from the swap example. When I install the APO, the driver file details list shows HdAudio.sys, and the IHV driver is not present. The INF references "hdaudio.inf" in various places, but changing these has not changed the end result when installing the APO : HdAudio.sys replaces the IHV driver .sys. Sysfx.doc says (Under "How Custom sAPOs Are Installed", pg. 4): "Custom sAPOs are installed with the audio driver and linked to a specific Plug and Play hardware ID". Is this *temporally* "with" (that is, an APO has to be installed at the same time as the audio driver, from the same INF), or "with" in a looser sense ("joining", "accompanying", "in the same place")? If it's possible to add APOs to an installed IHV driver in a separate installation step, are there any example INFs which show how this is done? Thanks, Bill ****************** WDMAUDIODEV addresses: Post message: mailto:wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subscribe: mailto:wdmaudiodev-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe Unsubscribe: mailto:wdmaudiodev-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe Moderator: mailto:wdmaudiodev-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx URL to WDMAUDIODEV page: http://www.wdmaudiodev.com/ ****************** WDMAUDIODEV addresses: Post message: mailto:wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subscribe: mailto:wdmaudiodev-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe Unsubscribe: mailto:wdmaudiodev-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe Moderator: mailto:wdmaudiodev-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx URL to WDMAUDIODEV page: http://www.wdmaudiodev.com/