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- | README file for
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- | ELSA WINNER Windows driver, ver 5.30
- |
- | WINNER 2000AVI
- |
- | Copyright (c) 1994-96 ELSA GmbH, Aachen (Germany)
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- | 06/07/96, gu
-
-
- Table of Contents:
-
- 1. Overview
- 2. Contents
- 3. Installation
- 4. Using Windows with a 2nd graphics board
- 5. Release Notes
- 6. Caveats
-
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- 1. Overview
-
- This directory contains the ELSA WINNER Windows drivers as well
- as ELSA Windows applications, e.g. WINman and SETUP.
-
- The Windows drivers support all resolutions and color depths
- available with the ELSA WINNER graphics boards. All Windows
- drivers on this disk take best advantage of the WINNER
- graphics hardware, thus enabling the full feature set of the
- boards for use in Windows. Ergonomics as well as Windows
- performance are significantly enhanced by the drivers.
-
- WINman is a Windows utility program to configure the rich
- feature set of the drivers. It features a intuitive user
- interface that allows you to configure resolution, color
- depth, refresh rate and the virtual desktop.
- WINman offers extensive online help, describing it's own and
- the Windows drivers' configuration options. Please take the time
- to read the online help! It will help you better take advantage
- of your WINNER graphics board.
-
- SETUP is an installation program for the installation of the
- ELSA WINNER Windows driver and the ELSA Windows utilities.
-
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- 2. Contents
-
- Almost all files are compressed, their names are slightly
- changed. Please note that the files can NOT just be copied
- from this directory. (see installation)
-
- This directory contains the following files:
-
- DATE.DOC file identifying the disk, prod. date, etc.
- README.TXT the file you currently look at
- LIESMICH.TXT german version of README
- OEMSETUP.INF control file for Microsoft SETUP
-
- WINNER04.DR_ 16 color driver (only for WINNER 100VL and
- WINNER 1000)
- WIN???08.DR_ 256 color driver ( 8 bpp)
- WIN???16.DR_ 64k color driver (16 bpp)
- WIN???32.DR_ 16M color driver (32 bpp)
- WINVGA.2G_ grabber file
- VDDWIN.38_ virtuell device driver
- WINVGA.3G_ grabber file
- 8514FIX.FO_ several system fonts for the both
- 8514OEM.FO_ font/captionbar sizes
- 8514SYS.FO_ "
- VGAFIX.FO_ "
- VGAOEM.FO_ "
- VGASYS.FO_ "
-
- WINMAN.EX_ WINman program
- WINMAN.MO_ WINman monitor configuration file
- WINMADEU.DL_ german resource DLL for WINman
- WINMADEU.HL_ german help file for WINman
- WINMADEU.DL_ english resource DLL for WINman
- WINMAENG.HL_ english help file for WINman
-
- SETUP.EXE Setup Programm: loads WSETUP.EXE
- WSETUP.EX_ Wsetup program
- WSETUP.INF Wsetup installation description file
- WSETUDEU.DL_ german resource DLL for WSETUP
- WSETUDEU.HL_ german help file for WSETUP
- WSETUENG.DL_ english resource DLL for WSETUP
- WSETUENG.HL_ english help file for WSETUP
-
- '???' depends on your graphics board.
-
- In case of trouble during or after installation, please make
- sure you have all the files mentioned above!
-
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- 3. Installation
-
- 3.1 Installation of the ELSA Windows driver with ELSA SETUP.EXE
-
- You can install the ELSA WINNER Windows drivers with the
- program SETUP.EXE on this disk "Drivers for Windows 3.1x"
- or with CD ROM.
-
- Start Windows, call in the "Program Manager" "File"/"Run ...",
- enter the commandline "a:setup" or the corresponding path on the
- ELSA CD (e.g. \WINNER\1000AVI\WIN31\SETUP.EXE) and confirm with
- "OK".
- SETUP asks for your language, installs the WINNER Windows
- drivers and configures with WINman a fitting graphics mode.
- Afterwards (and also at following calls of SETUP), when the
- Windows driver installation is o.k., you may install additional
- Windows utility programs.
-
-
- 3.2 Installation of the ELSA Windows driver with Microsoft SETUP.EXE
-
- Make sure to have the original Windows 3.1 distribution disk
- present. The installation procedure will ask you for some of
- these disks. To install the ELSA WINNER Windows drivers,
- please exit Windows and change to your Windows directory and
- run the Microsoft SETUP program. Select the menu 'displays',
- scroll down to the end of the list and select 'Other'. (In
- case you update an existing installation do NOT select any
- WINNER entries from this list, but rather refer to section 6.1
- in this file.)
-
- SETUP will ask for a floppy disk. Please insert the ELSA
- WINNER Windows disk into your floppy drive and press <Enter>.
- SETUP will offer a list of choices of ELSA WINNER graphic boards
- to install from the floppy.
- Please locate and select the entry that corresponds to product
- name of your WINNER board.' SETUP will install and change all
- neccessary files for you. If you update an existing installation,
- SETUP will ask whether it should update or keep old files. Please
- be sure to press <ESC> to update the existing files. After SETUP
- completes the installation rerun Windows.
-
- ELSA WINman will automatically be launched. WINman is a tool to
- help you configure and customize the WINNER board and your
- monitor. You can request help in WINman anytime by pressing the
- <F1> key.
-
- CAVEAT: Do NEVER enter the path to your Windows system
- directory if SETUP asks for a DISK. Otherwise the
- update fails possibly.
-
- The program WINman cannot change the refresh rate for the
- WINNER 100VL. To change the refresh rate use the
- program REFRESH.EXE on the WINNER System Disk.
-
- Also refer to: section 6.1 network installation
-
-
- 3.3 User Hints WINman
-
- WINman installs itself in the Program Group ELSAware in Windows.
- After the initial installation and first call, you can call
- WINman from your Program Group ELSAware.
-
- At first use you should run "First ..." completly inclusive
- storing a Windows graphicmode.
-
- Later you may modify your graphics mode under "Graphicmode ...".
-
- After storing more than one graphicmode, WINman starts with a
- fast graphics mode switching menu. Then you may switch your
- Windows graphics mode very fast without testing with test
- screens.
-
- In all menus you will find context sensitive help (with "Help"-
- button or with F1-key).
-
-
- 3.4 Video-acceleration with DCI
-
- 3.4.1 Installation of DCI-support
-
- To activate the DCI capability of the graphics board, you have
- to install VfW 1.1d (or higher) from the delivered ELSA CD. Even
- when you have installed VfW before, it is necessary to run
- the installation from the ELSA CD, because some additional files
- are copied to the windows system directory and the file
- SYSTEM.INI is modified, too.
- To install VfW you have to run SETUP.EXE under windows from
- the directory \ELSAWARE\VFW from the ELSA CD.
-
- The following files are copied to the windows system directory:
-
- UDH.DLL (Universal Draw Handler)
- DCIMAN.DLL (DCI-Manager)
-
- The installation-software also modifies the SYSTEM.INI-file:
-
- [DRIVERS]
- DCI=display
- vids.draw=udh.dll
-
- [WINNER.DRV]
- DCI-SUPPORT=1
-
- 3.4.2 Hints
-
- - If an application doesn't use DCI, there will be no
- acceleration.
-
- - DCI allows direct access of visible display-memory (called
- "Primary Surface"). If no DCI is available, an application
- needs two steps to render an image: First it renders the image
- into a bitmap in the computer's main memory. Then it uses GDI
- to copy the bitmap onto the visible display. With DCI the
- program can write directly into the display's memory, which is
- faster than using GDI and a bitmap. The disadvantage is, that
- the data must be compatible to the display's color-depth
- (e.g 8-bit palettized, 16-bit hicolor, 32-bit true-color),
- otherwise the application has to convert the color-space
- itself, which takes a lot of time.
-
- DCI "Primary Surface" is supported by:
-
- 1000PRO, 1000TRIO, 1000AVI, 2000AVI, 2000PRO, 2000PRO/X
-
- - Some WINNER-gui-accelerators have integrated circuitry to
- minimize the amount of CPU-power needed to playback video.
- These boards support access to invisible display-memory
- (called "OffScreen Surface"), managed by our WINNER-DCI
- driver.
- When an application finished drawing into offscreen, it
- advises the DCI-driver to render the offscreen-image into
- visible display-memory. The DCI-driver uses the accelerator-
- hardware to perform shrinking, stretching and/or color-
- conversion.
-
- Increasing resolution and color-depth shrinks available
- offscreen-memory, so that a video may not fit into it anymore.
- This causes the DCI-driver to switch back to "Primary
- Surface".
-
- DCI "OffScreen Surface" is supported by:
-
- 1000AVI, 2000AVI, 2000PRO/X
-
- - When using DCI with 256 colors, activate color-scheme "windows
- standard".
-
-
- 3.5 TrueColor now with 24 bpp
-
- For the graphics boards WINNER 2000AVI-4 and WINNER 2000PRO/X-4
- it is possible to use a 24 bpp driver for TrueColor.
- The big advantage of this feature is that you can use the
- resolution 1280x1024 with TrueColor.
-
-
- 3.5.1 Hints
-
- - The 24 bpp driver doesn't support DCI. Please use the other
- drivers (8 bpp, 16 bpp, 32 bpp).
- - The ELSA Powerdraft driver for AutoCAD for Windows does not
- support 24 bpp. Please use the other drivers, too.
-
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- 4. Using Windows with a 2nd graphics board
-
- If you use the second WINNER board for Windows add the command
- "board=1" to your "SYSTEM.INI" into the section [WINNER.DRV]
- The entry "2ndbrd" used up to version 3.24 will no longer be
- used.
-
- The following combinations are supported:
-
- 1st board 2nd board
- ----------------------------------
- VGA WINNER 2000PRO[/X]
- WINNER 1000ISA WINNER 2000PRO[/X]
- WINNER 2000PRO[/X] WINNER 2000PRO[/X]
-
- If you have got one combination of the ELSA WINNER boards shown
- above, you can use the special driver MULTIman to spread your
- desktop over two or more monitors, providing the advantage of a
- considerably larger workspace. More informations about that
- contains the file README.TXT on the disk "MULTIMAN" or in the
- corresponding directory on the ELSA CD.
-
- Known problems:
- This driver version does not support "DOS FULL SCREEN"
- using the parameter "board=1"
-
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- 5. Release Notes
-
- This section describes changes to the last releases of this
- disk.
-
- VERSION 4.0
-
- - With this version the WINNER 2000PRO/X is supported, too.
-
- - The general protection faults at addresses 0006:1B70,
- 0006:1AB1, 0006:1AAE, 0006:1B0B are fixed.
-
- VERSION 4.01
-
- - With this version the WINNER 2000PRO/X-8 is supported, too.
-
- VERSION 4.10
-
- - With this version the WINNER 1000AVI is supported, too.
-
- VERSION 4.13
-
- - Several printing problems are fixed.
-
- VERSION 4.14
-
- - With this version the WINNER 1000PRO and 2000PRO
- are supported.
-
- VERSION 4.15
-
- - WINNER 2000AVI is supported.
-
- VERSION 4.21/4.22
-
- - improvement of the DCI support
-
- VERSION 4.23
-
- - bug 640x480 with 60 Hz on 2000AVI and 2000PRO/X is fixed.
-
- VERSION 4.25
-
- - support of new palette RGB528-A of WINNER 2000PRO/X-8
-
- VERSION 4.26
-
- - support of new palette AT&T of WINNER 1000AVI
-
- VERSION 5.03
-
- - WINNER 1000PRO/X is supported
-
- VERSION 5.05
-
- - Support for ELSA GLoria and WINNER 1000AVI with AT&T
- palette
-
- VERSION 5.11
-
- - WINNER 2000PRO/X-2 /-4 with Boardrelease G is supported
- - WINNER 1000TRIO/V is supported
-
- VERSION 5.20
-
- - Bug fix with two grafik boards (VDDWIN.386)
- - WINNER 1000TRIO software update
-
- VERSION 5.21
-
- - <Ctrl-Alt-Del> problem with WINNER 1000TRIO and TRIO/V is
- fixed
-
- VERSION 5.30
-
- - DCI adapted to ELSAvision
- - New Initcode release
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- 6. Caveats
-
- This section documents known anomalies or problems and gives
- hints on work arounds.
-
-
- 6.1 Network Installations
-
- Installing Windows system components in a networked environment
- is also possible with the ELSA installation program SETUP.EXE
- under Windows. (see 3.1 Installation of the ELSA Windows driver
- with SETUP.EXE)
-
-
- 6.2 Known Application Problems
-
- This section describes known problems with applications and (if
- possible) circumvents.
-
- - Several multimedia applications reports an error message as
- "You may encounter display performance problems, please
- contact the manufacturer of your video board to see if an
- update driver is available". If the CPU timing is decreased
- the animations are displayed much slower, but the error
- message does not occure. This is an internal bug of the
- multimedia application which computes the video performance of
- highspeed drivers incorrect on fast computer systems.
-
- - Aldus Freehand: Moving of a zoomed part of the image can cause
- bad output.
-
- - The AnimationPlayer uses sometimes wrong colors. This is not
- a driver problem. Instead you may switch off 'color cycling'
- in the options menu and the problem disappears.
-
- - Borland does not support S3 based video adapters as WINNER in
- the Turbo Debugger. After quit debugging Windows cannot be
- displayed correctly because a special DLL is missing.
-
- - There is a hidden flag in CorelDraw 3.0/4.0 which controls the
- use of graphic primitives (scanline or polygon based) to draw
- the image. Search for the 'CDrawConfig' section in
- CORELDRW.INI and expand it by the line 'UseClippingForFills=0'.
- After this change CorelDraw can paint their images much faster.
-
- - In CorelPhotoPaint the images are only black and white with
- 4 bpp / 16 colors.
-
- - Please don't start the Benchmark Hercules Speedy by using the
- <F2> function key. Use <Alt C> <CR> instead for "Control, Auto
- Run".
-
- - The screen saver ELSA POWERman works fine with ELSA WINNER
- drivers, but other drivers such as VGA.DRV do not support the
- POWERman.
-
- - ImageStar: Bad output when using 16M colors.
-
- - Lotus Freelance: Using the magnifying glass causes sometimes
- to bad output.
-
- - Lotus Organizer: For window sizes > 800x600 there is a colored
- rectangle at the bottom of the page.
-
- - The program MICROCOM Carbon Copy does not work with ELSA
- WINNER.
-
- - In Micrografx Designer 4.0 occures a problem after convert a
- presentation to an executable file (.EXE). Accessing this file
- causes a general protection fault in KRNL386.EXE with ELSA
- WINNER drivers and SVGA also. This is an error of Designer.
-
- - In the application Midisoft Studio 3.10 the output of notes
- and measures may be incorrect after installing the ELSA
- WINNER graphics board. Change the settings in the menu "View,
- Score View Settings". The application computes the correct
- length of measures automatically.
-
- - Application 'Norton Desktop for Windows' (NDW) VirScan hangs
- at 65% of memoryscan. This is due to an illegal memory access
- of VirScan to our board. The next release of NDW might
- probably have a switch to exclude specific memory areas.
-
- - Paintbrush: Flood fill sometimes doesn't work correctly.
-
- - PaintBrush cannot print with HiColor drivers (65000 colors)
- and True-Color drivers (16Mio colors).
-
- - With 16 color drivers PhotoStyler causes general protection
- faults. This is not a driver problem.
-
- - The introductions in Procomm Plus and QuarkXPress are
- incorrect or only in black/white with the driver for 16
- colors.
-
- - Program Manager: If no virtual memory is installed switching
- from windowed DOS box to full screen causes probably loss of
- icons.
-
- - Data input in SPC Harvard Graphics is incorrect with small
- fonts. This is an application bug.
-
- - In WordPerfect 5.1 for Windows there are several problems in
- "view printing page" which are not caused by the drivers.
-
- - WordPerfect 6.0: If you encounter problems when shrinking
- document to less than 35%: Alter entries "xmm=" and "ymm=" in
- file SYSTEM.INI, section [Winner]:
-
- xmm=280
- ymm=210
-
- - PCI systems
- If system/chipset setup has an option BYTE MERGING, this
- option must not be enabled.
-
-
- 6.3 Hints to the version:
-
- - With this version 4.0 and the following versions no OS/2
- seamless is supported. There is a special ELSA Windows drivers
- on the ELSA OS/2 driver disk.
-
- - WINNER 1000AVI: With this version no 4 bpp is supported.
-
- - WINNER 1000AVI: The WINman shows on the windows testscreen,
- with the graphicmode 640x480x16 bpp and refresh rates
- smaller than 105 Hz and with the graphicmode 800x600x16 bpp
- and refresh rates smaller than 68 Hz, the appearence of the
- mouse cursor too small and the half of the Windows-screen
- is not usuable. After restarting Windows with these modes
- everything is OK. With the standard testscreen there aren't
- any problems.
-
- - WINNER 1000TRIO, WINNER 1000AVI, WINNER 1000PRO/X and
- WINNER 2000PRO/X:
- The graphics board gets an interrupt from the system bios.
- Sometimes this causes conflicts with other boards in the
- system (e.g. network).
-
- - It is important for the version 4.0 and all following versions
- that the WINNER graphics board is put in the upper memory of
- the system. This address range is calcualted automatically
- and normally there aren't any problems. There are PCI- and
- VL-systems, however, on which this calculation fails, because
- of an error in the motherboard.
-
- In this case the system will hang after displaying the Windows
- startup-logo or somewhere during your Windows session.
- You should modify the file SYSTEM.INI with an editor. Please
- enter the line VRAM-BASE=... in the section [WINNER].
- With the following you can set the address of the WINNER
- graphics board in system memory.
- Examples:
-
- VRAM-BASE=0x04000000
- VRAM-BASE=0x06000000
- VRAM-BASE=0xFC000000
-
- Please note that the last six digits of this number have to be
- equal to zero.
-
- - Using AutoCAD for Windows there might be a problem with the
- appearence of the buttons dependent on the monitor size and the
- choosen resolution. If the position of the buttons is incorrect
- please modify the values for "xmm=" and "ymm=" in the file
- SYSTEM.INI, section [Winner]:
-
- xmm=280
- ymm=210
-
- These changes have to be made after the usage of WINman,
- because this program overwrites these values.
-
- - In MS PowerPoint there might occur a general protection fault
- with special files in foil sort mode (8 bpp: 0006:1BF9,
- 16 bpp: 0006:1BEC, 32 bpp: 0006:1BDB).
-
- - Using MS WinWord with large documents there might be a problem
- in during display of screen shots (general protection fault
- with 8 bpp at address 0006:3832).
-