þ ³ README file for ³ ³ ELSA WINNER Windows 95 Driver Disk, ver 0.08 BETA ³ ³ WINNER 1000 (all) ³ WINNER 2000 (all) ³ ³ Copyright (c) 1994-95 ELSA GmbH, Aachen (Germany) ³ ³ Subsidary: ³ ELSA GmbH ELSA Inc. ³ Sonnenweg 11 2041 Mission College Blvd. ³ D-52070 Aachen Suite 165 ³ Germany Santa Clara, CA 95054 ³ USA ³ ³ Tel.: +49/0-241-9177-0 Phone: +1-408-565-9669 ³ Fax : +49/0-241-9177-100 Phone: +1-800-272-ELSA ³ BBS : +49/0-241-9177-981 Fax : +1-408-565-9650 ³ ISDN: +49/0-241-9177-7800 BBS : +1-408-565-9630 ³ CIS : GO ELSA CIS : GO ELSA ³ ³ Juni, 16th 1995, js ³ Contents 1. Overview 2. Disk Contents 3. Installation 4. History 5. Release Notes 6. Known Bugs and Operating Notes ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Overview This disk contains the 8th BETA Version of the ELSA WINNER Display Driver for Microsoft Windows 95. (Final BETA Release - Mar 1995, Build 440) The drivers support 256, 32768 and 16 Million colors in all resolutions available on used ELSA WINNER board. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. Disk 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 disk's directory contains the following files: LABEL.TXT 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) WINNERP.DRV driver file for "Non-PRO"-boards WINPROP.DRV driver file for "PRO"-boards WINPRXP.DRV driver file for TRIO, AVI, PRO/X, GLoria MINIWINP.VXD virtual mini display driver WINIC95.DLL display driver extension ELSADISP.INF device information file for ELSA boards ELSAMON.INF device information file for ELSA monitors In case of trouble during or after installation, please make sure you have all the files mentioned above! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. Installation 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, not in DOS mode as used in Windows 3.1 - 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". - 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". After restarting Windows the mouse pointer will be displayed colored. This is not a bug. To change the cursor colors see 5.1. In all following Windows sessions you can change the resolution without rebooting your system. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4. Revision History This section describes changes to the previous releases of this disk. 4.1. Version 0.06 4.1.1. Video for Windows Now Video for Windows works also in Full Screen mode. 4.1.2. Mode mono If you have switched in a DOS box to "mode mono", the Fullscreen/Windowed switch doesn't have work. This bug is fixed now. 4.2. Version 0.07 4.2.1. Cursor colors and 32 BPP For the WINNER 1000 PRO and TRIO the cursor colors in the 32 BPP modes were not correct. This bug is switched 4.2.2. Hollow Brush handling The CorelDraw 5.0 bug (black bars override color select list) is fixed. 4.2.3. DOS boxes Switching from full screen to windowed DOS boxes some times hangs the system. This bug is fixed. Now also 16 colors VGA graphic mode in window works, if your card has enought video RAM. 4.2.4. WINNER 1000 VL crashes The Entry VRAM-Base=0xA0000 in ELSA.INI is no longer needed on a WINNER 1000 VL. 4.3. Version 0.08 4.3.1. Bugfix WINNER 2000 PRO/X, -AVI and GLoria with CorelDraw 5. 4.3.2. New Modes The modes 1152x768x32 and 1280x1024x32 on WINNER 2000 PRO/X-8 now available. 4.3.3. New ELSA.INI entry Ther is a new entry in ELSA.INI available: [Hardware] VRAM-Size=<32Bit Value> see section 5.1. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. Not that this address must be above the end of your main memory and muát be a multiple ob the RAM size of your graphics board. Additionally the end of the graphic RAM must not be above the addressable range of your bus type. This 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 1000 AVI, WINNER 2000 AVI, WINNER 2000 PRO/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 selectable Because the controls for Desktop area and Color resolution display ALL modes possible on ANY WINNER board not all indicated resolutions available. The attempt to select such a mode fails. Windows does you alert on it with a corresponding notification message. 6.2. No mouse pointer visible On the WINNER 1000, WINNER 1000VL and WINNER 1000PCI under 32BPP no mouse pointer is visible. Enable Mouse Trails with a very short trail in "Properties for Mouse" in the Control Panel 6.3. WINNER 1000/2000 AVI/VL This boards work only with up to 64MB main memory. The S3 chips 868/968 need 64MB physical address space and the VL-bus can access only 128 MB. For this boards use the following entries in the section [Hardware] in your ELSA.INI file: VRAM-Base=0x4000000 VRAM-Size=0x4000000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------