NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors

Title: The ELSA WINNER 1000AVI 

Entry Number:  1936
Last Updated:  May 24 1995
Document Revision: 595A

Product Vendor, USA:
ELSA Inc.
2041 Mission College Blvd.
Suite 165
Santa Clara, CA 95054

Phone:  		408-935-0350
Fax:    		408-935-0370
BBS:   	 	408-935-0380
800#:   		800-272-3572 (ELSA)

Product vendor, Europe and International:
ELSA GmbH, Aachen, Germany
Sonnenweg 11
D-52070 Aachen
Germany

Phone	+49/0-241-9177-0
Sales		+49/0-241-9177-917
Fax		+49/0-241-9177-600

Keywords: ELSA, S3 Vision 868, S3 868, VLB, PCI, High-Performance Graphics, Dual Headed Systems, Multiple Headed Systems

Usage Commentary

The ELSA WINNER 1000AVI  displays up to 1152 x 864 16 bit color graphics or 1600 x 1200 8 bit grayscale/color within a NEXTSTEPâ system. Configured with 2 megabytes of video RAM, the card is available as WINNER 1000AVI-PCI-2 with a PCI or as WINNER 1000AVI-VL-2 with a VL bus interface. There is no restriction on system main memory size when operating with an ELSA WINNER 1000AVI card. Please note that 8-bit Color resolutions are only supported wih NEXTSTEP 3.3.
NEXTSTEPâ for Intelâ processors Release 3.2 or a later version is needed to use the card.
The PCI versions of the WINNER 1000AVI  are supported by a multiple screen driver for use with NEXTSTEP Release 3.3. 

WINNER 1000AVI-2 Display Adapter Display Modes
135MHz RAMDAC, PCI or VLB, 2 MB VRAM

32-bit Color

 800x 600,  75 Hz
 640x 480,  60 Hz

16-bit Color

1152x 864,  60 Hz
1120x 832,  72 Hz
1024x 768,  75, 70 Hz
 800x 600, 100, 75, 70, 60 Hz

8-bit Grayscale or 8-bit Color  (NEXTSTEP Release 3.3 only)

1600x1200,  52 Hz
1536x1152,  56 Hz
1408x1024,  70 Hz
1280x1024,  75 Hz
1152x 864, 100, 91, 83, 76, 60 Hz
1120x 832, 100, 94, 88, 72 Hz
1024x 768, 100, 75, 70, 60 Hz
 800x 600, 100, 75, 70, 60 Hz
 640x 480,  60 Hz

Although the driver comes with a rich palette of  video modes, optimized in ergonomics for ELSA card and ELSA monitor combinations,  new video modes can be created within hardware constraints using MS DOS based ELSA tools. Thus it is possible to adapt the card to the limits of  a particular monitor model or e.g. to have interlaced display modes, by creating so-called timing data sets or "timings".  Once such a custom timing is created it may be copied to multiple systems by recording the 10 numbers used to describe the timing.

Setup and Installation

The required driver is part of the product. Detailed installation instructions can be found on disc and CD  accompanying the graphics card in the file next/readme.txt. The card is supported by two drivers, a standard driver that supports the NEXTSTEP software version 3.2 and 3.3 and a multiple screen driver that supports version 3.3. See subdirectory standard resp. multiscr. The readme files here also contain up to date technical background information.

The drivers, which support the ELSA WINNER 1000/2000 graphics cards series,  are available via anonymous FTP (ftp.next.com) and via email (nextanswers@next.com). Additionally, they can be downloaded from the BBS ELSA ONLINE, Aachen, Germany (0049+241-9177-981) using a communication program (2400-28800 bps, 8n1). In the US, call  (408)-565-9630 for the BBS at ELSA Inc. It is not necessary to run the MS-DOS version of the ELSA configuration software when working with ELSA WINNER cards in the NEXTSTEP system.

To install a driver package obtained via ftp, double-click on the packageÂs icon in the Workspace.  After installation with the Installer, select  "ELSA WINNER 1000/2000" as display adapter in the configuration application.  It is required to select the installed board now, since the driver supports all ELSA WINNER  cards. To do so, press the "select" button. A window named ELSA WINNER Inspector is displayed. A technical information box shows what to do next and, after a video mode is selected, the line frequency and pixel clock corresponding to the video mode.  Installer and Configuration application are part of the NEXTSTEP software.

Known Problems

·	none