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- SciTech Display Doctor 7.0 for OS/2
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- PREVIEW RELEASE 4
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- About SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2
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-
- SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2 brings SciTech's proven DOS and Windows
- device support technologies to the OS/2 Operating System. Although one
- of the core features of our DOS and Windows products is the support for
- the VESA VBE/Core standard, the OS/2 version has nothing at all to do
- with VESA services. Rather SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2 incorporates
- the new SciTech Nucleus, Graphics Architecture device driver technology
- to bring SciTech's device support to the OS/2 platform.
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- SciTech Nucleus is a binary portable, OS neutral, device driver
- architecture. As binary portable drivers, SciTech can fully develop and test
- the core device drivers in the DOS and Windows environments, while being
- able to target any Intel x86 based OS as the runtime environment (such
- as OS/2). This essentially allows the OS/2 product to utilise the same
- SciTech binary device drivers as the DOS and Windows versions of the
- product, improving the quality and performance of the drivers for all
- supported operating systems.
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- Installation and setup
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-
- To install SciTech Display Doctor, follow the directions below:
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- 1. Unzip all the files into a temporary directory directory (something
- *other* than x:\sdd, where x:\ is your boot drive).
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- 2. Run 'setup sdd' from the directory where you installed the files
- from above.
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- 3. Reboot your system
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- 4. The system should then boot up in the 640x480x256 display mode. Once
- the system is up and running if you go the 'System Properties' dialog
- box you should be able to select all the available resolutions and
- color depths (you have to shutdown for the changes to take effect).
- You should also be able to go to the second page of the 'Screen'
- properties tab and the listed monitor should be 'SciTech Display Doctor'
- which will allow you to use all the resolutions and color depths that
- our drivers support.
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- NOTE: If you wish to have OS/2 use large fonts for your desktop, remove the
- SET GREEXT=SDDGREXT line above. We are adding direct control of this
- to our control panel applets, but for the moment you can select small
- or large fonts by using the above line.
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- List of all supported chips:
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- This is a complete list of the various graphics cards that this version
- of SciTech Display Doctor supports. Please note that this list refers to
- the actual chips being used, not a board-level implementation. Thus you will
- not see any products from Hercules or STB on the list, but their products are
- supported because they use S3, Cirrus, Tseng, etc. chips. Also, any card
- with less than 512KB of memory cannot be supported by SciTech Display Doctor.
-
- Please note that we are in the process of moving all our existing device
- support code to our new SciTech Nucleus device driver architecture.
-
- . Alliance ProMotion 6422, ProMotion AT24, ProMotion AT25
- . Alliance ProMotion AT3D
- . ATI 3D Rage Pro, 3D Rage LT Pro
- . ATI Mach64 CT, Mach64 ET, Mach64 VT, 3D Rage, Mach64 VTB, 3D Rage II
- . ATI 3D Rage II+, Mach64 VT4, 3D Rage IIC, Rage 128
- . Chips & Technologies 65550, 65554, 65555, 68554, 68555, 69000
- . Cirrus Logic CL-GD5434, CL-GD5440, CL-GD5436, CL-GD5446
- . Cirrus Logic Laguna 5462, Laguna 5464, Laguna 5465
- . Cyrix Media GX, Media GXi, Media GXm
- . InteGraphics CyberPro 2010
- . InteGraphics IGA1680, IGA1682, IGA1683, CyberPro 2000
- . Intel i740
- . Macronix 86250, 86251
- . Matrox MGA Millennium, MGA Millennium II, MGA Mystique
- . Matrox MGA Mystique 220, MGA G100, MGA G200
- . Philips 9710, 9712
- . Rendition Verite V2100/V2200
- . S3 Trio32, Trio64, Trio64V+, Trio64UV+, Trio64V2/DX, Aurora64V+
- . S3 Virge, Virge/DX/GX, Virge/VX, Virge/GX2, Virge/MX, Trio3D
- . S3 Trio3D2x, Savage3D, Savage4
- . Sigma Designs RealMagic 64 GX
- . SiS 6202, 6205, 6215, 5597/5598, 6326, 5595/530,5595/620
- . Tseng Labs ET4000/W32, ET4000/W32i, ET4000/W32p, ET6000, ET6100
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- GAReport hardware report program
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- This is a simple program which will load the SciTech Nucleus display driver
- for your hardware, and report the graphics hardware configuration.
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- GACtrl configuration program
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- This program allows you to perform compatibility testing on the Nucleus
- device drivers, including testing the graphics modes, stereo modes (which
- won't work under OS/2 yet unless you have hardware stereo), DPMS Power
- Management and DDC communications.
-
- One of the other useful things that this program can do is allow you to
- adjust the centering and refresh rate control for all available display
- modes (including text modes for OS/2 command prompts!). Use the 'Centering
- and Refresh' menu item to change the refresh rate and centering values
- for individual display modes, or the 'Global Refresh Rate' menu item to set
- all display modes to a preferred refresh rate.
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- Of course the centering and refresh control will eventually be controlled
- by our SciTech Display Doctor GUI control center, but that component is
- still under development and not ready for testing.
-
- NOTE: Changing the global refresh rate *also* changes the refresh rate
- for VGA text modes to your preferred value. You may want to reset
- the text modes back to 70Hz manually if the refresh rate controlled
- text modes cause problems.
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- GAPerf performance profiler
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- This program allows you to run some performance profiling on the Nucleus
- device drivers, which will allow you to see what sort of raw hardware
- performance your graphics card posseses. Try it out, you may find the
- results rather interesting...
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- GAMon monitor selection program
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- This is a simple program to allow you to select a monitor that is attached
- to your graphics card. Selecting a monitor will filter the available
- display modes and refresh rates depending on the capabilities of your
- attached monitor.
-
- To select a monitor you must know the manufacturer and model name for your
- monitor. To list all available manufacturers, use the following command:
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- gamon mfr
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- This will produce a rather long list, so you can narrow the list by entering
- the start of the manufacturer name like and list all monitors that
- manufacturer makes:
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- gamon model nec
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- which will list all 'NEC Technologies' monitors. Once you have found your
- monitor, you can select it by entering the partial manufacturer name and
- a partial model name like so:
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- gamon select nec XP21
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- which will select the 'NEC Technologies' 'NEC XP21' monitor.
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- Of course this selection program is a bit archaic at the moment, and our
- SciTech Display Doctor GUI control center will allow you to select a
- monitor (and adjust the properties) much more conveniently in the final
- release.
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- Registering the the product
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- To register the software, run the included 'REGISTER.EXE' program from
- an OS/2 command prompt. When prompted, enter the exact user name EXACTLY
- AS SHOWN, INLCUDING CASE! Hit enter and enter the registration code,
- and the product should then be registered.
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- Good Luck!
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