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| README file for
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| ELSA WINNER Windows driver, ver 5.30
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| WINNER 1000ISA/EISA
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| Copyright (c) 1994-96 ELSA GmbH, Aachen (Germany)
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| Subsidary:
| ELSA GmbH ELSA Inc.
| Sonnenweg 11 2150 Trade Zone Blvd.
| D-52070 Aachen Suite 101
| Germany San Jose, CA 95131
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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).