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1996-02-13
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| README file for
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| ELSA WINDOWS 3.1X MULTIman Driver, Ver. 1.22
| for
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| WINNER 2000PRO (VL/PCI)
| WINNER 2000PRO/X
|
| in combination with one or more
|
| WINNER 2000PRO (VL/PCI)
| WINNER 2000PRO/X
|
| or
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| WINNER 2000PRO|PRO/X (PCI)
| WINNER 2000PRO/X
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| in combination with one
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| WINNER 1000ISA
|
|
| Copyright (c) 1994-96 ELSA GmbH, Aachen (Germany)
|
| Subsidary:
| ELSA GmbH ELSA Inc.
| Sonnenweg 11 2150 Trade Zone Blvd.
| D-52070 Aachen Suite 101
| Germany San Jose, CA 95131
| USA
|
| Phone : +49-241-9177-0 Phone: +1-408-935-0350
| Support Fax: +49-241-9177-213 Phone: 1-800-272-ELSA
| BBS (modem): +49-241-9177-981 Fax : +1-408-935-0370
| BBS (ISDN) : +49-241-9177-7800 BBS : +1-408-935-0380
| CompuServe : GO ELSA CIS : GO ELSA
| WWW : http://www.elsa.de WWW : http://www.elsa.com
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| 02/01/96, qn
Contents
1. Overview
2. Disk Contents
3. Installation
4. Switching to "One-screen" Windows
5. Release Notes
6. Known Bugs and Operating Notes
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Overview
This disk contains the drivers and tools for the Windows
multi-screen dispatcher MULTIman and the ELSA WINNER Windows
drivers required for this operating mode.
These drivers allow the Windows desktop to be spread over two
or more monitors on systems equipped with two or more ELSA
graphics boards, providing the advantage of a considerably
larger workspace.
Please note that only special combinations of ELSA WINNER
graphic boards are allowed.
The MULTIman driver supports the following combinations of ELSA
graphics boards:
first board:
WINNER 1000ISA [1|2] MB
second board:
WINNER 2000PRO | PRO/X [PCI] [2|4|8] MB
or
first board:
WINNER 2000PRO | PRO/X [VL,PCI] [2,4,8] MB
all other boards:
WINNER 2000PRO | PRO/X [VL|PCI] [2|4|8] MB
Combinations with VL and PCI boards are not supported.
You can use only boards with the same VIDEO RAM.
With the WINNER 1000ISA only WINNER 2000PRO|PRO/X-PCI
boards can be used. The PRO and the PRO/X boards should not
be used together, too.
No additional VGA-graphics boards can be operated in the
computer.
Up to four boards are supported. With four boards there is the
possibilty to choose a quadratic (2x2) monitor placement.
The board with the smallest memory equipment determines the
highest vertical or horizontal resolution.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
2. Disk Contents
DATE .DOC file identifying the disk, prod. date, etc.
README .TXT file you currently read
LIESMICH.TXT german version of this file
MULTIMAN.DRV MULTIman driver file
WINIC31. DLL Driver extension file
WINNER08.DRV Windows driver for 256 colors
WINNER16.DRV Windows driver for 65535 colors
WINNER32.DRV Windows driver for 16 million colors
------------------------------------------------------------------------
3. Installation
Requirements:
It is required that Windows runs on each of the boards (in
one-screen mode) with the ELSA drivers version 3.31 or newer.
The ELSA WINNER Windows drivers must already be installed before
you install MULTIman.
About 3 Mbytes of disk space must be available on the harddisk
on which Windows is installed.
The automatic installation and the following instruction
assume that your secondary and all following boards are
WINNER 2000PROs or WINNER 2000PRO/Xs.
Installation Procedure from WINNERware CD:
First start Windows in your normal configuration. This should
be on the first board.
Start the program "SETUP" from the WIN31 directory of your board.
(e.g.: WINNER\2000PROX\WIN31\SETUP.EXE)
First the program will ask you to install newer Windows drivers.
You can do this. After that the SETUP program opens a new
dialog box where you can choose to install MULTIman or
the ELSA Utilities. Please choose the "MULTIman" installation
now. The program will ask you to insert the ELSA disk
"MULTIman". Now MULTIman will be installed on your harddisk.
But it won't be configured.
MULTIman configuration:
Terminate the SETUP program and start the WINman utility from
group "ELSAware". Please choose the resolution of the first
Windows screen.
Then you can click the button "Change MULTIman". In the
following dialog box you can choose the number of your WINNER
screens. After that please entry the virtual resolution for the
first screen and the physical and virtual resolution for the
other screens. At the end you have to entry a refresh rate for
each screen.
ATTENTION: Please pay attention to the specifications of
your monitors, to avoid damages. You can find
informations in the documetations of the
monitors.
Confirm the dialog box with "OK" and save the graphics mode.
Please shut down all DOS-applcations, because a restart of
Windows is necessary now.
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4. Switching to "One-screen" Windows
The installation of MULTIman modifies your Windows display
configuration in the SYSTEM.INI file. To switch back to the
normal one-screen configuration, proceed as follows:
Start the WINman utility from the group ELSAware again and
choose the button "Change MULTIman". There you can switch to
"One-screen" Windows. Save this grafikmode and after the next
restart you are able to work with the "One-screen" mode again.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
5. Release Notes
This section describes changes made to this disk compared with
older versions.
MULTIman ver 1.10:
- Up to four boards supported.
- Reverse monitor order for horizontal solutions.
MULTIman ver 1.20:
- New init code and windows drivers
MULTIman ver 1.22
- Update for POWERdraft for AutoCAD
------------------------------------------------------------------------
6. Known Bugs and Operating Notes
none