# | README file for | | ELSA WINNER Windows 95 Driver Disk, ver 1.04 | | WINNER 1000 (ISA/EISA, PCI, VL) | WINNER 1000PRO | WINNER 1000AVI | WINNER 1000PRO/X | WINNER 1000TRIO | WINNER 2000 (ISA/EISA, VL) | WINNER 2000AVI | WINNER 2000PRO | WINNER 2000PRO/X | GLoria | | Copyright (c) 1994-95 ELSA GmbH, Aachen (Germany) | | Subsidary: | ELSA GmbH ELSA Inc. | Sonnenweg 11 2041 Mission College Blvd. | D-52070 Aachen Suite 165 | Germany Santa Clara, CA 95054 | USA | | Phone : +49-241-9177-0 Phone: +1-408-565-9669 | Support Fax: +49-241-9177-213 Phone: 1-800-272-ELSA | BBS (modem): +49-241-9177-981 Fax : +1-408-565-9650 | BBS (ISDN) : +49-241-9177-7800 BBS : +1-408-565-9630 | CIS : GO ELSA CIS : GO ELSA | | 11/27/95, js, sd Contents 1. Overview 2. Contents 3. Installation 4. History 5. Release Notes 6. Known Bugs and Operating Notes 7. Notes for the multiple screen dispatcher MULTIman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Overview This disk contains the ELSA WINNER Display Driver for Microsoft Windows 95. The drivers support 256, 32768 and 16 Million colors in all resolutions available on used ELSA WINNER board. For the WINNER 2000PRO/X and WINNER 1000AVI there is the multiple screen dispatcher MULTIman available. So you can display the Windows desktop on two or more monitors to get a bigger working place. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. Contents Almost all files are compressed, their names are slighly changed. Please note that the files can NOT just be copied from this disk. (see installation) The directory contains the following files: The files marked with (a) are not contained on the PRO/X and GLoria disk. The (x)-marked files are only available on this disk DATE.DOC file identifying the disk, prod. date, etc. README.TXT the file you currently look at LIESMICH.TXT german version of README ELSAINI.TXT additional informations for file ELSA.INI (german) WINNER.DRV a driver file for "Non-PRO"-boards WINPRO.DRV a driver file for "PRO"-boards WINPRX.DRV driver file for TRIO, AVI, PRO/X, GLoria MMNPRX.DRV x Display driver file for MULTIman MMAN.DRV x MULTIman dispatcher driver MINIWIN.VXD virtual mini display driver WINIC95.DLL display driver extension (initialization) WINEX32.DLL display driver extension (32 bit extensions) ELSAD16.DLL display driver extension (Direct Draw interface) ELSADD.DLL display driver extension (Direct Draw HAL) ELSAISP1.INF a device information file for ELSA boards ELSAISP2.INF x device information file for ELSA boards ELSAMON1.INF device information file for ELSA monitors WINMAN.EXE WINman program WINMAN.MON WINman monitor configuration file WINMADEU.DLL german resource DLL for WINman WINMAENG.DLL english resource DLL for WINman WINMADEU.HLP german help file for WINman WINMAENG.HLP english help file for WINman In case of trouble during or after installation, please make sure you have all the files mentioned above! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. Installation This section descibes the steps to install a ELSA WINNER Display Driver for Windows 95 3.1 Install over older versions of the ELSA WINNER Driver - Delete in the WINDOWS\INF directory the copies of the older versions ELSADISP.INF (named OEM?.INF). - Install the original MS-S3 driver to build a new Device Information Database. - Now follow th steps, described in section 3.2. 3.2 First installation of ELSA WINNER Display Drivers First install Windows 95 without special drivers for the ELSA WINNER graphics board. The installation procedure should install a Microsoft driver for boards based on S3 chips. The installation of the ELSA WINNER Display Driver starts from the Windows desktop. - Start the dialog "Properties for Display" by clicking right mouse button on the desktop or per Control Panel. - Select the Property Page "Settings" - Push the button "Change Display Type...". A dialog "Change Display Type" will pop up. - Push the button "Change..." inside the frame "Adapter Type". You will see the "Select Device" dialog. - In this dialog push the button "Have Disk..." and insert the ELSA WINNER Windows95 Driver Disk in the appropiate drive. - Select in the "Manufacturer" list ELSA WINNER Display Driver and in the list "Models" your WINNER board. - If you use an ELSA monitor, make the same procedure for "Monitor Type" in the "Change Display Type" dialog. - Close the dialog "Change Display Type". At this time the screen flickers a moment. This is not a bug! Windows tries to find out, which graphics modes are available with this driver. - Now you can select resolution and color depth in the main dialog "Properties for Display". For the first installation you should select 1024x768 and 256 colors. This configuration is available for all memory configurations on all ELSA Boards. - Close "Properties for Display" by "OK" or "Apply now". Normally you need to boot your system. Push the button "Restart now". In all following Windows sessions you can change the resolution without rebooting your system. 3.3. MULTIman Installation The MULTIman installation occurs exact in the same way as the normal display drivers. !!! IMPORTANT NOTE !!! Because Windows evaluates the maximal resolution of your installed monitor, you normally will not have the option to select a high resolution in the Display Control Panel. To circumvent this, before you install the MULTIman, you must select the "MULTIman" monitor (.../Monitor Type/Change.../Have Disk) Not also to have plugged in ALL graphics boards, you want to use with MULTIman, before you install the MULTIman driver. If you want to remove one additional board, FIRST select a normal driver. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4. Revision History This section describes changes to the previous releases of this disk. Version 1.01 - first release. 4.1 Version 1.02 - "Smoothy screen fonts" now works. - Problems when using "Mouse Trails" with color and or animated cursors fixed. 4.2 Version 1.03 - "Quick color depth change" now possible with Microsoft QuickRes v2.0. (see 6.5.) - Support for POWERdraft for Windows 95 added. - DCI and DirectDraw support added - Refresh-Rate support added. 4.3. Version 1.04 - Polygon-support: You can switch off driver support of polygons by adding the line Polygon=0 to the section [Settings] in your ELSA.INI file. - Colored hardware cursors only supperted, if the line ColorCursor=1 exists in the section [Settings] in the ELSA.INI file. - Direct Draw, Pen Windows and Virtual Screen support added. - Some problems with refresh rate support fixed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5. Release notes 5.1 ELSA.INI entries The working mode of the driver can manipulate by entries in the file ELSA.INI. Normally you will need to reboot your machine to mak this settings working. In later releases ELSA will distribute a tool change working paramters more easy. The following table shows the meaning of this entries: Section [Settings] CursorFG/CursorBK With this two entries you can change the color of the hardware cursor. The format is: CursorFG=0xrrggbb at which rr, gg and bb are the hexadecimal values in the range 00 to FF of the bas color components. RefreshRate You can change the vertical refresh rate by the entry Hz=nn Be carefully by changing this entry. To big values may destroy your monitor. Section [Hardware] CursorType In few resolution/color combinations on some S3-based graphic boards the hardware cursor doesn't work. In this cases you can force the usage of a software cursor by inserting the line CursorType=SW in your ELSA.INI file. This affects WINNER 1000 ISA/EISA, VL and PCI. Video-RAM base address and size Windows'95 needs direct access to the frambuffer of your graphics board. Normally this takes place by 64kB segments, mapped into the address space above 0A0000h. On VL and PCI systems you can map the full video RAM into the host address space. This increases the performance of multimedia applications. For example, insert the line VRAM-Base=0xA0000000 to map the video RAM at the physical address A00000000h. Note that this address has to be above the end of your main memory and that it has to be a multiple of the RAM size of your graphics board. Additionally the end of the graphics RAM must not be above the addressable range of your bus type. These are for ISA bus 16MB, VL 128MB and PCI 4GB. If you specify a VRAM-Base you also need to insert a VRAM-Size entry: for WINNER 1000AVI, WINNER 2000AVI, WINNER 2000PRO/X and GLoria use VRAM-Size=0x4000000 and for all other (previous) WINNER use the size of the video memory in bytes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6. Known Bugs and Operating Notes This section documents known anomalies or problems and gives hints on work arounds. 6.1 Videomode not available Because the controls for Desktop area and Color resolution display ALL possible modes on ALL WINNER boards not all indicated resolutions are available. The attempt to select such a mode fails. Windows rejects this attempt with a corresponding notification message. 6.2 No mouse pointer visible On the WINNER 1000, WINNER 1000VL, and WINNER 1000PCI under 32 bpp no mouse pointer is visible. Enable Mouse Trails with a very short trail in "Properties for Mouse" in the Control Panel. 6.3 After the installation no mouse cursor is visible Probably there is no ELSA WINNER graphics driver active, but a standard driver for Microsoft S3 processors. This driver cannot recognize the the ELSA WINNER graphics board correctly. - To avoid this problem please install the ELSA WINNER graphics driver for Windows 95. - Shut down Windows 95 with ALT-F4. While starting press F8. In the following menu choose the third entry "3. Save mode". Windows 95 will now start in a save mode with standard VGA resolution. Now install the ELSA WINNER driver for Windows 95. or: - Activate the software cursor (e.g. animated mouse cursor) or the mouse track. Hints: When the Device Manager recognizes the ELSA WINNER graphics board correctly, it is possible that no ELSA WINNER driver is active. With the Device Manager you can get information for all drivers (e.g. company). With the ELSA driver you will find the entry "ELSA GmbH Aachen (Germany)". 6.4 WINNER 1000AVI-VL This board works only with up to 64MB main memory. The S3 chips 868/968 need 64MB physical address space and the VL-bus can only access 128 MB. For this board use the following entries in the section [Hardware] in your ELSA.INI file: VRAM-Base=0x4000000 VRAM-Size=0x4000000 6.5 QuickRes 2.0 and Hardware Cursor Now it is possible to change the current Color-resolution (BPP) without rebooting Windows. Microsoft QuickRes 2.0 switches the CursorType to Software when changing the color resolution. You can switch back to Hardware Cursor with "Properties for Mouse". Click Motion/Trail "on" and "off". 6.6 GLoria-8 The resolution 1024 x 768 in 8 bpp (256 colors) could cause problems with vertical refresh rates higher than 100 Hz. 6.7. Unknown and PnP-monitors If you don't have selected a Monitor or you have a PnP (DDC1) Monitor, in all graphics modes the default refresh rate is 60Hz. The DDC case is becaus a bug in Windows DDC support You can change to a higher refresh rate with the program WINman. WINman, unlike Windows, can evaluate the monitor information provaided by DDC exact. 6.8. Software cursor problems On WINNER 1000 boards some screen flicker occurs, if moving the mouse pointer somewhere on the lower border of screen. 6.9. Drawing errors in "grayed" text items On the PRO/X, AVI, GLoria and TRIO boards some drawing failures occur after a resolution switch without rebooting the system. Often this bug is seen in the text items on disabled buttons or menu items. This bug will be fixed in the next driver revision. 6.10. MULTIman problems see section 7.3. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7. Notes for the multiple screen dispatcher MULTIman 7.1. Supported boards MULTIman only supports two or more WINNER 2000PRO/X boards. 7.2. Direct Draw and DCI MULTIman doesn't support Direct Draw nor DCI. 7.3. Known MULTIman bugs and problems 7.3.1. Software cursors Usage of software cursors (Mouse Trails or Color Pointers) may cause screen corruption. Please use hardware cursor when ever possible. This bug will be fixed in the next driver revision. ------------------------------------------------------------------------