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- From: vart@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Michael H. Vartanian)
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- Subject: ATI Beta NT Drivers (8514/Ultra, Vantage, Ultra+, Ultra Pro)
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- Date: 17 Dec 92 15:22:12 GMT
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- In CICA's upload directory, as mxxnt5.zip.
-
- I haven't tried these out yet, and they just appeared on the ATI BBS,
- which is a very busy system. Good Luck!
-
- Here's the README file:
-
- ATI Technologies Inc. MxxNT5.ZIP December 15 1992.
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SUPERCEDES ALL PREVIOUS VERSIONS OF: M32NTA, M32NTB, M32NTC, M32NTD
- Revisions (0.01), (0.02), (0.03), (0.04)
- File Naming has changed Mxx -refers to all ATI Mach8 and Mach32 products
- 5 -refers to beta version.05
- _________________________________________________________________________
-
- The Graphics device drivers supplied here are for the Oct 92 Beta Release of
- Windows NT operating system. It is required that Windows NT operating
- system is loaded onto the computer system.
-
- The drivers are in beta form and has been released with no implied warranties
- and or guarantees of functionality. Any questions or problem reports should
- be addressed to ATI Driver Development via the ATI forum on Compuserve.
-
- This version of the driver will run on these ATI Accelerator Products:
-
- Graphics Ultra Pro
- Graphics Ultra +
- Graphics Ultra
- Graphics Vantage
- 8514/Ultra
- OEM versions identifying the Mach32 ASIC or 68800 ASIC
- OEM versions identifying the Mach8 ASIC or 38800 ASIC.
-
- NOTE: This is FIRST REVISION THAT INCLUDES "VIRTUAL DRIVER SUPPORT"
- FOR MACH32 ISA PRODUCTS AND GREATER THAN 12MEG RAM
- (See Revision History)
-
- This ATI driver is a preliminary release developped by ATI programmers
- since the release of the Windows NT DDK in October 1992. It has NOT
- been through our QA process, nor optimized for speed as we wanted to get
- a driver into out customer's possession ASAP, with the hopes that it will
- be useful to you.
-
- The programmers at ATI are working long hours to get basic drivers running
- reliably, tell us if the driver fails to run, or there are MAJOR
- bugs that prevent you from using the driver, and ATI will correct them.
- ATI would like to know what applications you are executing so we can
- do more effective testing in the future.
-
- Submission of problems should be addressed either
- by CompuServe @ 76004,3656 Driver Development (Go ATITECH) or
- by FAX or Letter addressed to the attention of:
-
- ATI Technologies Inc.
- 3761 Victoria Park Avenue
- Scarborough, Ontario,
- M1W 3S2, Canada
- ATTN: Driver Development
-
- OUR FAX NUMBER IS: (416) 756-0720
-
-
- ATI is working with Microsoft to have support for ATI products included
- in future releases of Windows NT SDK and DDK.
-
-
-
-
- INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS -----------------------------------------
-
- Windows NT operating system assumed to be installed in C:\WINNT.
- ATI graphics utilities (shipped with the video card), assumed to be
- already installed.
-
- This ATI driver package containing:
- - 68800.SYS (ATI Graphics miniport driver)
- - ANTPANEL.EXE (Configuration program for the driver)
- - INPORT.SYS (Bus Mouse driver)
- - ATIEO.DLL (no aperture driver)
- - FRAMEBUF.DLL (aperture driver)
- - This README file
-
- Procedure:
- 1. Copy the 68800.SYS driver to the C:\WINNT\SYSTEM\DRIVERS directory.
- Copy the *.DLL drivers to the C:\WINNT\SYSTEM directory.
-
- 2. Copy the Windows NT ANTPANEL.EXE configuration program to a directory
- which is contained in your Windows NT PATH environment variable.
-
- 3. If your ATI Graphics card does not include a mouse port
- or if you are using a pointing device not connected to the ATI adapter,
- proceed to step 5.
-
- 4. In the C:\WINNT\SYSTEM\DRIVERS directory, rename INPORT.SYS to INPORT.SAV.
- Copy the new INPORT.SYS mouse driver to the C:\WINNT\SYSTEM\DRIVERS
- directory.
- Windows NT supports an INPORT mouse. The Graphics Ultra Pro may
- contain a Bus mouse, so this is a Bus mouse driver for Windows NT.
-
- 5. Power off the computer, power on, and start Windows NT.
- Windows NT will start up in 640x480, 16 colour VGA mode. This is normal.
-
- 6. From the Program Manager, run ANTPANEL.EXE. Select the resolution and
- colour depth you want to use, then click on the "OK" button. Your
- selections will take effect after you shut down and restart Windows NT.
-
-
- Revision History -----------------------------------------
-
- Version 0.05 (MXXNT5.ZIP)
- Now supports all ATI accelerator families of graphics cards. This is
- detected automatically at boot up time of Windows NT.
- These resolutions are supported if the aperture is NOT available
- (ie 8514/Ultra, Graphics Ultra, Graphics Vantage and Graphics Ultra Pro in
- a 16 megabyte ISA bus):
- 640 by 480 in 256 colors
- 800 by 600 in 256 colors
- 1024 by 768 in 256 colors
-
- Version 0.04 (M32NTD.ZIP)
- Fixes
- GARBAGE Screen on Startup of Graphics Mode -- Some adapters have a
- hardware combination that was not being initialized properly.
-
-
-
-
-
- Version 0.03 (M32NTC.ZIP)
- New Features for resolution and color depth (if capable)
- 640 by 480 in 8 and 16 bits per pixel
- 800 by 600 in 8 and 16 bits per pixel
- 1024 by 768 in 8 and 16 bits per pixel
- 1280 by 1024 in 8 bits per pixel
- where 8 bpp is 256 colors,
- 16 bpp is 65535 colors
- 24 bpp is 16.7 million colors
-
- Version 0.02 (M32NTB.ZIP)
- Fixes
- WRONG COLORS -- Adapters using the ATI 68830 DAC will now display a
- correct palette.
-
-
-
- KNOWN PROBLEMS -----------------------------------------
-
- -- Mouse does not Move in Windows NT. If the mouse is connected to the
- ATI graphics adapter, then these problems may be at fault.
-
- -- The mouse driver expects mouse setup to use IRQ 5 and primary address.
- Use the Windows NT Setup program to verify an Inport mouse is selected.
- If it is NOT, login as the administrator and select Inport mouse.
-
- -- Sometimes (debugger enabled) -- Because the Bus mouse interrupt is
- always enabled, during Windows NT startup (blue text screen visible)
- an Unexpected IRQL error occurs.
- To work around this, disable the mouse interrupt temporarily by :
- Boot MS-DOS
- run debug
- o23E 10
- q
- Boot Windows NT
-
-
- Trademarks:
- Graphics Ultra Pro and Graphics Ultra Plus are trademarks of
- ATI Technologies Inc. IBM and MicroChannel are trademarks of
- International Business Machines Corporation.
- Windows NT and MS-DOS are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
-