# | README file for GLoria-L/MX | | ELSA graphics driver disk for Windows NT 4.0 build 1381. | | Version: 5.36.00.430 | | Copyright (c) 1993-99 ELSA AG, Aachen (Germany) | | ELSA AG Internet : http://www.elsa.de | Sonnenweg 11 LocalWeb : +49-(0)241-938800 | D-52070 Aachen | | ELSA Inc. Internet : http://www.elsa.com | 2231 Calle De Luna | Santa Clara, CA 95054 | USA | | ELSA Asia Inc. Internet : http://www.elsa.com | 7F-11, No. 188, Sec. 5 | Nanking East Road | Taipei 105 | Taiwan, R. O. C. | | ELSA Japan Inc. Internet : http://www.elsa.com | Mita Suzuki Building 3F | 5-20-14 Shiba, Minato-ku | Tokyo 108-0014 | Japan | | 23/04/1999, SKuklik Table of Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Installation 3. Additional Configuration Options 4. Known Problems 5. History ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Introduction This file explains how to setup and to configure the ELSA Windows NT driver software for your graphics board. 1.1 Requirements This driver software only runs on ELSA PCI-bus graphics boards. 1.2 Further Information For more information on configuring installed ELSA graphics drivers, please refer to the Windows Help or to the help files to ELSA Utilities. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 Installation NOTE: This driver was designed for full functionality under Windows NT 4.0 only! There are several ways to install an ELSA graphics driver: - Automatic installation by ELSA Setup Utility (2.1) - Via the Windows dialog "display properties" (2.2) - During the NT Windows 4.0 installation (2.3) 2.1 Automatic installation by ELSA Setup Utility First of all, start Windows NT. To run SETUP.EXE then, you can either double click on it in the Microsoft Explorer or choose "Run..." in the "Start" menu. NOTE: Please close all programs before running Setup - especially other ELSA utilities. 2.2 Manual Installation 2.2.1 Manual Installation of the graphics driver NOTE: First install the Standard-VGA driver, then shut down your computer and exchange the graphics board with the GLoria Synergy. In the Taskbar/Start/Settings, click on "Control Panel" and then select "Display Properties". Alternatively, you can right-click the desktop and in the appearing popup menu, select "Properties". Select "Settings" and then "Display Type". In the upcoming window you can use the "Change" button to select your ELSA graphics board. You will get the "Change Display" dialog box with a variety of available drivers. Select the key "Have Disk" in the lower right-hand of the dialog box. The dialog "Install from disk" appears with an indication of path or floppy drive ("A:\"). Change the entry to the path where you find the driver files for your board (e.g."D:\GLoria\LMX\WINNT40") and confirm with "Continue". Now a list of ELSA graphics drivers is displayed. Select the driver for your board. Confirm the dialog. The driver is installed after confirming the warning that a third-party driver will be installed. Close all display windows. NOTE: With Windows NT 4.0, graphics drivers cannot be loaded dynamically. This is a limitation of the Operating System! To activate the ELSA driver the computer has to be restarted. Please press "Yes" in the relevant dialog. The system will reboot and the initial installation is finished. The initial installation of ELSA drivers for Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 installs the driver in a resolution of 640*480 pixel at 256 colors and 60Hz refresh. NOTE: With the installation of the Windows NT 4.0 driver, the ELSA OpenGL driver is automatically installed. 2.3 Setup During System Installation NOTE: You will need installation floppy disks (see 2.4). With a first-time or new installation of Windows NT, the identification of hardware and software components is followed by the query if you wish to accept the settings selected by Windows NT. DO NOT press ENTER! Move the highlight to "Display:". Choose "Other" here (requires disk provided by a hardware manufacturer). Insert disk 1 and select the driver for your graphics board. Continue the installation following all instructions. After restarting, Windows NT reboots in graphics mode. NOTE: the ELSA utilities must be subsequently installed manually (section 3.1). With the installation of the Windows NT 4.0 driver, the ELSA OpenGL driver is not automatically installed. 2.4 Making Installation Disks To create installation disks for the ELSA graphics driver please make sure to have four empty, formatted 3.5" disks ready. Label them as follows: ELSA Windows NT40 Display Driver Disk 1 ELSA Windows NT40 Display Driver Disk 2 ELSA Windows NT40 Display Driver Disk 3 ELSA Windows NT40 Display Driver Disk 4 Please note that maybe not all listed files are required and some files may have different filename extensions (e.g. "EGLLD.dl_" instead of "EGLLD.dll"). Create the following directory structure on your disks: ELSA Windows NT40 Display Driver Disk 1: _ESCAN.EXE _INST32I.EX_ _ISDEL.EXE _SETUP.DLL _SYS1.CAB _USER1.CAB DATA.TAG DATA1.CAB DISK1 EGLMX.INF ESETUP.DLL INSERV.INI LANG.DAT LAYOUT.BIN LIESMICH.TXT OS.DAT README.TXT SETUP.EXE SETUP.INI SETUP.INS SETUP.LID UNINST.DLL SETUPDIR\0007\_SETUP.DLL SETUPDIR\0009\_SETUP.DLL SETUPDIR\000a\_SETUP.DLL SETUPDIR\0010\_SETUP.DLL SETUPDIR\0011\_SETUP.DLL SETUPDIR\0012\_SETUP.DLL SETUPDIR\0013\_SETUP.DLL SETUPDIR\001d\_SETUP.DLL SETUPDIR\0404\_SETUP.DLL SETUPDIR\040c\_SETUP.DLL SETUPDIR\0804\_SETUP.DLL SETUPDIR\0816\_SETUP.DLL ELSA Windows NT40 Display Driver Disk 2: DISK2 EGLMX.INF ESETUP.DLL INSERV.INI LIESMICH.TXT README.TXT TXTSETUP.OEM I386\EGLMXM.SYS I386\EGLMXD.DLL I386\EMGLMXD.DLL ELSA Windows NT40 Display Driver Disk 3: DISK3 EGLMX.INF ESETUP.DLL INSERV.INI TXTSETUP.OEM I386\EOGLMX.DLL ELSA Windows NT40 Display Driver Disk 4: DISK4 EGLMX.INF ESETUP.DLL INSERV.INI TXTSETUP.OEM LIESMICH.TXT README.TXT I386\DESKTOOL\DESKTOOL.INF I386\DESKTOOL\DESKTOOL.CAB I386\GLSET\GLSET.CAB I386\GLSET\GLSET.INF I386\WINMSUIT\WINMSUIT.INF I386\WINMSUIT\WINMSUIT.CAB I386\ELSAINFO\ELSAINFO.INF I386\ELSAINFO\ELSAINFO.CAB I386\UNINSTALL\WINMAN.INF I386\UNINSTALL\VIDEOIO.INF I386\UNINSTALL\DXCTRL.INF I386\MONCTRL\MONCTRL.INF I386\MONCTRL\MONCTDEU.DLL I386\MONCTRL\MONCTENG.DLL I386\MONCTRL\MONCTRL.CPL I386\MONCTRL\24H96.TIM With a first-time or new installation of Windows NT, the identification of hardware and software components is followed by the query if you wish to accept the settings selected by Windows NT. DO NOT press ENTER! Move the highlighted marker to "Display:". Choose "Other" (requires disk provided by a hardware manufacturer). Insert disk 1 and select the driver for your graphics board. Continue the installation following all instructions. After restarting, Windows NT reboots in graphics mode. NOTE: The ELSA utilities must be subsequently installed manually. With the installation of the Windows NT 4.0 driver, the ELSA OpenGL driver is not automatically installed! NOTE: System administrators may receive an ELSA support script, showing the unattended installation of Windows NT4.0 via network including the graphics driver setup. 2.5 Testing the Installation and Determining the Driver Version Number 2.5.1 Testing the Installation Select from the Start menu "Settings" and in the Control Panel click on "Display". Select the tab "Settings" and there the key "Change configuration...". The following dialog gives information of the manufacturer, the version number and the current driver files. NOTE: If you see "Version Information missing ", you did not set US English as the system language. This problem will appear in all non-American NT installations. This is a limitation of the Operating System. 2.5.2 Determining the Version Number of the Driver via the Driver Files Use the Explorer to inspect the file properties for one of the files EG*.SYS, EG*.DLL, or EMG*.DLL. The file EG*.SYS can be found in the directory System32\Drivers and System32 of your Windows NT, the files EG*.DLL and EMG*.DLL in the System32\index. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 3 Additional Configuration Options 3.1 How to Install and to Configure the Driver If necessary, all tools can be manually installed afterwards. To do this, change to the corresponding tool subdirectory (e.g. 1386\GLSET), click with the right mouse button on the ".INF" file and select the entry "Install" from the context menu. After a restart the tools are fully installed. There follows a description of all the possible settings of the ELSA graphics driver for Windows NT and of the ELSA utilities. 3.1.1 ELSA WinmanSuite ELSA WinmanSuite is a tool, which integrates in the taskbar of your Operating system. Klicking the mouse on the tray icon, you will get quick access to all installed ELSA utilities. 3.1.2 ELSA GLoria Settings The ELSA GLoria Settings allow you to configure the 3D options of your ELSA GLoria graphics board. You will find this tool as a tab in the display properties or as a menu item in the WinmanSuite. You also will find a detailed description by clicking the Help key. 3.3 Monitor Conformity To take full advantage of your monitor, you can define new resolutions and other monitor timings, and store them in the timing file. In multi-screen operation, the timing must be set for each connected monitor. 3.3.1 Monitor Control With the ELSA program to set monitors, you can configure multi-screen environments. You will find it under Starting Menu/Control Panel/MONCTRL. The configuration options are described as follows. 3.3.1.1 Monitor Timings for ... In multi-screen configurations, you can select the monitor for which the timing should be set. 3.3.1.2 Timings This entry determines how the timing file should be used. IGNORE: All entries in the timing file are ignored, which means it is not employed. PREFER: Resolutions of the timing file are preferentially treated. If a resolution provided in a timing file is also provided by a driver, the data of the timing file will be accepted, and the data of the driver are rejected. Driver resolutions without a corresponding timing are accepted unchanged. NOTE: Using new drivers, it is possible that no resolution of the timing file is accepted, because of the multitude of timings offered. It is advisable to use the setting "Exclusive". EXCLUSIVE: All standard resolutions are rejected. Only resolutions from the timing file are available. 3.3.1.3 List of Monitors This list presents a series of symbols to characterize the timing entries. This should be a text applying to the timing and indicating exactly the monitor, e.g. ELSA ECOMO 24H96 3.3.2 Monitor Timings File The monitor timings are stored in this binary piece of data. The values of the timing file are accepted by MonCtrl and transferred to the list of disposal resolutions. Concerning the ELSA ECOMO 24H96 you will find a list in the System32 directory of your Windows NT 4.0 register. 3.3.2.1 Description of Timing File Format The file including the timing entries has the ending ".TIM". It contains lines with ASCII text which work with all editors (e.g. NOTEPAD.EXE). The first line contains a text to indicate the monitor (see 3.3.1.3). This text is registered in the MonCtrl tool of the monitor list. (i.e. ELSA ECOMO 24H96). In each of the following lines the timing is defined. Furthermore, each line contains 14 values separated by commas, describing the timing. The following parameters can be entered here (order as in the file) : - XRes: number of pixels to X-direction (e.g.1024) - YRes: number of screen lines to Y-direction (e.g.768) - Bpp: number of bits per pixel, color depth (e.g.16) - Hz: refresh rate in Hertz (e.g.79) -PxClk: pixel clock rate of kHz (i.e 95455) - Ht: horizontal total in pixels = hor. sum (e.g.1312) - Hfp: horizontal frontporch in pixels (e.g. 16) - Hsw: horizontal sync-width in pixels (e.g. 96) - Hbp: horizontal backporch in pixels (e.g. 176) - VT: vertical total in lines = vertical sum (e.g.800) - Vfp: vertical frontporch in lines (e.g. 1) - Vsw: vertical sync-width in lines (e.g. 3) - Vbp: vertical backporch in lines (e.g. 28) - If: interlaced flag (should be set to zero) An example of a file (24H96) with the named value, will represent as follows: ELSA ECOMO 24h96 640, 480, 8, 60, 25175, 800, 16, 96, 48, 525, 10, 2, 33, 0 NOTE: It is not necessary to indicate the parameters. Normally the indications xRes, yRes, Bpp and Hz are enough. All other parameters must be mentioned at least with a zero. Example: 1200, 800, 16, 75, 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 3.4 ELSA POWERlib ELSA offers the toolkit POWERlib as an option for the programmer. This is for creating your own applications which use ELSA graphics boards for graphical output. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 4 Known Problems - If the application under OpenGL requests "Double Buffering" and the GLoria cannot realize it, software emulation will be installed automatically. To force hardware OpenGL you have to disable double buffering in your application! - The driver cannot run on a system where a port COM4 is installed. - It is possible that some computers need a very long time to boot. - If the ELSA graphics board is not recognized, try another PCI slot. Some motherboard manufacturers have implemented PCI slots that are not PCI compliant. - Multi-screen operation No full-screen DOS window, or the driver doesn't start. Switch the VGA on the first board ON and OFF on all others. - For correct function of 3D Studio MAX 1.x Software Z-Buffer has to be used with this driver. - With Pro/DESIGNER display corruption may occur when using shaded modes. - With CATIA/CADAM display corruption may occur while using textures - Softimage: Running an animation in fastplayback-mode in one or more shaded views will cause flickering in these views. Activate fastplayback in one wireframe view to solve the problem. You also can completly turn of the problem by deactivating the pageflip mechanism (force buffer blit) but this will result in prefomance loss! - For correct function of 3D Studio MAX 2.x has to be used the MAXtreme driver. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 History 5.36.00.418 ----------- - Bugfix for Solidworks98Plus - Bugfix for Pro/E - Bugfix for 3DSMax 2.5 - OpenGL ICD 2.01.14.134 - Setup 3.1 - AppSet 3.00.03 - ELSAInfo 3.00.03 - DeskTool 3.02.01.02 - WinmanSuite 1.06.04 - MonCtrl 1.02.01 5.36.00.430 ----------- - Bugfix for Unigraphics 15.0 - OpenGL ICD 2.01.14.136 - Setup 3.1.05 - AppSet 3.00.04.03 - ELSAInfo 3.00.07 - DeskTool 3.02.01.02 - WinmanSuite 1.06.05 - MonCtrl 1.02.01Download Driver Pack
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