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From: moore@iastate.edu (Brian J Moore)
Subject: Re: SVGA drivers for SpeedStar card????
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 15:49:12 GMT

In <GRUND.92Aug30074632@pyrite.som.cwru.edu> grund@pyrite.SOM.CWRU.edu (Victor Grund) writes:


>The ET4000 drivers at cica work fine for me and my Speedstar.

Can you alt-tab out of a full screen DOS app or press ctrl-alt-del
without rebooting or crashing?

If you can, let me know which ET4000 drivers you have (there are many at
cica)

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From: anisko@usdtsg.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (anisko)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: Diamond Stealth VRAM
Date: 25 Aug 92 22:56:56 GMT
Reply-To: anisko@usdtsg.UUCP ()
Organization: NCR Corporation, Dayton


  I was wondering if someone could explain something to me.  On my PC at work,
I have a Paradise card with 256k ram.  When using Windows I can only get up
to 640x480x16.  However, if I use Cshow 8.44 to view bitmaps and gifs,
they display in 640x480x256.  So the question is, why can I see 256 colors
in a graphics viewer, but not through Windows...

  I did try the 640x400x256 driver, which did work *but* everytime I moved
the mouse a flurry of screen noise would occur.

  					Robert J. Anisko
					anisko@usdtsg.daytonoh.ncr.com

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: bloeser@tron.kom.tuwien.ac.at (Friedrich Bloeser)
Subject: Re: Larger size than 24x80 for DOS window ?
Organization: Technical University of Vienna
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 13:44:13 GMT

In article <pc7aclg@fido.asd.sgi.com> hajadi@goofy.csd.sgi.com (Ivan Hajadi) writes:
>
>
>is it possible to open DOS windows ( i use norton desktop 2.0 )
>which are larger than 24x80 ?  if i try to strecth the window it
>doesn't seem to allow me.
>
>i can live with 80 column width, but i want more than 24 rows..
>

Insert the following into the [NonWindowsApp] section of your SYSTEM.INI file:

ScreenLines=50

to open a DOS window with f.e. 50 lines.
From: NAT@drao.nrc.ca (Natalie Prowse)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Need help with multimedia setup
Date: 2 Sep 92 02:47:12 GMT
Organization: I'm Never organized!  Just ask anyone who knows me...
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.11

I finally broke down and bought a PC....  so i'm learning as I go. The
configuration is an ASI 9000 (a 486-33), with a Diamond Stealth Vram card, and
the soundblaster multimedia kit.  It came with windows 3.1, DOS 5.0, and the
sbpro drivers  installed, and I installed the Multimedia upgrade to windows,
but I am having problems displaying animations or 'mmm' files.  For instance,
if I run the multimedia Viewer that comes with the microsoft bookshelf (on CD
rom), everything works fine until I try to look at an animation (in the
encyclopedia).  Then I get an 'Application Error - Call to Undefined Dynalink'
and the viewer dies when I hit the close button.  What am I missing?  Someone
told me I needed to have the SNDBLST.DLL file in my windows directory.  I
copied it there, and restarted windows, but I am still getting the same error.
I cannot find any references to 'dynalink's in the manuals...

Help!

-Natalie Prowse
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: HELP: A4 page size for Panasonic printer driver 
From: mhs@math.canterbury.ac.nz (Murray Smith)
Date: 27 Aug 92 13:58:05 +1200
Distribution: world
Organization: Department of Mathematics, University of Canterbury

In the Panasonic KXP-1124 printer driver supplied with Windows 3.1
there is no A4 page mode (210x297mm) and the user defined page size only
allows a maximum page width of 202.3mm. Does anyone know if there is
available a printer driver for Windows 3.1 which can handle this page size?

Murray Smith
Math Dept, University of Canterbury, NZ

mhs@math.canterbury.ac,nz
 
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: bloeser@tron.kom.tuwien.ac.at (Friedrich Bloeser)
Subject: Re: Larger size than 24x80 for DOS window ?
Organization: Technical University of Vienna
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 13:41:18 GMT

In article <pc7aclg@fido.asd.sgi.com> hajadi@goofy.csd.sgi.com (Ivan Hajadi) writes:
>
>
>is it possible to open DOS windows ( i use norton desktop 2.0 )
>which are larger than 24x80 ?  if i try to strecth the window it
>doesn't seem to allow me.
>
>i can live with 80 column width, but i want more than 24 rows..
>

Insert the following into the [NonWindowsApp] section of your SYSTEM.INI file:

ScreenLines=50

to open a DOS window with f.e. 50 lines.

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: me@dude.pcs.com (Michael Elbel)
Subject: Is there a way to change the screen dpi for windows?
Organization: PCS Computer Systeme GmbH
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 08:30:22 GMT

I have this problem with the Compaq drivers for their
Q-vision graphics. If I use the Compaq drivers, the 
screen properties some programs like WP4win seem to
use are set so as if a 13 or 14 inch monitor were used.

This isn't too nice since even in 1024 * 768 mode
WP will refuse to display more than a quarter of a 
page at a time.

My question is: is there a way to change the (builtin?)
properties for screen size / screen dpi so I could
convince WP to draw more.

Alternatively, does anybody know of an option to WP
to change its behaviour in this case?

Regards, Michael
--
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PCS GmbH, Muenchen, Germany  |  I just forgot it in the
   me@dude.pcs.com           |  rush this morning.
From: ehunt@bsc835bsc.edu (Eric Hunt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: Diamond Stealth VRAM
Date: 28 Aug 92 16:53:05 GMT
Organization: Birmingham-Southern College

In article <1992Aug26.170457.9598@bert.eecs.uic.edu>, zmola@bert.eecs.uic.edu (Carl Zmola) writes:
> 	I have just purchased a VRAM board, but am having problems
> with the drivers.  I received a suplemental disk and those drivers
> seem to work with Windows, but I can't get into my monitor's
> 1024x768x256 Non Interlaced modes.  1024x768x256 Interlaced are

Did the video card come with a custom setup utility? I recently installed
several ATI Vantage cards, and at first, I couldn't get the non-interlaced
1024x768 modes, either, until I went in and defined a custom setup for the
NEC 3FGx monitor, it was defaulting to this 87Mhz interlaced screen, whereas
I found that the NEC could do a 60Mhz non-interlaced, and the image was much
better. Does the VRAM board come with such a custom setup util?
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Birmingham, Alabama 35254     |          ^----nothing longer than 100 lines
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: win3.1 smrtdrv correction (sorry)
From: edowdy@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 16:57:47 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City

 
> Hey folks,
> 
> I have a FAQ, but I am not sure the answer:
> 
> 	A while back there was a thread related to the smartdrv.exe
> and that windows has a himem.sys that has enhancements that make it
> more productive when run with windows than the dos version. My question: does
> windows 3.1 load this automatically when it is installed and how can I tell
> which version I have?
> 
> Thanks in advance............   (sorry about my previous ?, I meant to say
himem.sys)

>Eric D.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: phirl3@cserve.cs.adfa.oz.au (PHILLIPS ROBYN)
Subject: windows 3.0 print drivers
Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 04:00:11 GMT

I have an ADV 286 pc with windows 3.0 and norton desktop.  My problem is that
whenever I use a windows print driver and print something from windows, I
have solid black print onto the paper wherever there is no characters.  My 
printer is citizen 5800 (9 pin dot matrix) and I am using the appropriate
windows driver.

Can anyone offer any help?

Thank you in advance.


Rob 

email: phirl3@cserve.cs.adfa.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Windows 3.1 smrtdrv. 
From: edowdy@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 16:48:08 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City


Hey folks,

I have a FAQ, but I am not sure the answer:

	A while back there was a thread related to the smartdrv.exe
and that windows has a smrtdrv.exe that has enhancements that make it
more productive when run with windows than the dos version. My question: does
windows 3.1 load this automatically when it is installed and how can I tell
which version I have?

Thanks in advance............
Eric D.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: clangst@iastate.edu (Chris Langston)
Subject: Re: Missing WINA20.386
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 03:16:04 GMT

In <713269086snx@zenos2.nsg.com.au> terrym@zenos2.nsg.com.au (Terry McCracken) writes:


>In article <1992Aug04.145658.9814@convex.com> cowles@convex.com writes:

>  > 
>  > I looked on the distribution disks, but wina20.386 does not exist there
>  > (under that name). I tried to call Microsoft, but when I finally get to
>  > the menu that says "Push 9 if you want to talk to a technician.", I
>  > push 9 and get kicked off the system. ???
>  > 
>  > How can one tell if one is running in enhanced mode?
>  > -- 
>  >      John Cowles        cowles@hydra.convex.com
>  >                         Convex Computer Corp.  214 497 4375
>  >                         3000 Waterview Pkwy
>  >                         Richardson, Tx. 75080
>  > 

>My understanding is that wina20.386 is needed so that programs can switch
>the top address line a20. It must be in the top directory. You can tell 
>which mode you are in by selecting help in the program manager and then
>selecting About. This will tell you the mode you are in and the avaible
>system recources.
>                                hope this helps
>                                        Terry

the top directory of what drive?  The current drive, the drive windows is
on, the boot drive....?

>Terry McCracken
>nsg.com.au!zenos2!terrym
>All disclaimers apply.

--chris langston
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: umholtm0@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Heston Holtmann)
Subject: Oak Windows 3.1 Video Driver Problem
Originator: umholtm0@keyes.cc.umanitoba.ca
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 11:20:21 GMT

  Anyone have any suggestions for me on this problem??
 
  I have a VGA1024 512k Video Card (oem Version) in my 386dx.
 
  The VGA1024 User's Guide lists it as Version 1.0 - July 1990.
  The card features High-Res 1024x768 and Super-VGA 800x600 on Multisync
and 8514 Monitores.
   1024x786x16 and 800x600x256.
   
  The Windows drivers that came on disk were for Windows 3.0 and only
supported 16 color modes.
 
  I recently tried to use the Latest OAK/OEM Windows 3.1 drivers
available via FTP, but they don't seem to work with this card!!
 
  Am I wrong to assume that OEM and OAK are the same??

  Is there someone out there with a VGA1024 oem version card that can
give me some insight into using newer drivers??
 
   Heston Holtmann

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: charley@fsg.com (Charley Rich)
Subject: Diamond SpeedStar
Organization: Fusion Systems Group, Ltd
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 20:02:26 GMT

Does anyone have the phone number of Diamond?  An 800 number would be
fine.  I would like to contact them about getting the 'latest' in Win 3.1
drivers for the Diamond SpeedStar.  I understand that this is the
'recommended' method for getting these drivers.

As I am not always able to read news, please send any replies via email.

Thanks,


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| Fusion Systems Group			uupsi!fsg!charley	      |
| New York, NY 10007		phones:	212-285-8001 (work)	      |
From: mlowery@npg-sd.SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM (Mike Lowery)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Password Protection for Win3.1
Date: 27 Aug 92 23:25:20 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: NCR Corp., Network Products - San Diego

Does anyone know of a way to password protect Windows 3.1?
I know of the passwords available in the screen saver, 
but what I need is a password to protect against 
unauthorized entry into Windows itself.


----Mike
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: hajadi@goofy.csd.sgi.com (Ivan Hajadi)
Subject: Larger size than 24x80 for DOS window ?
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 02:10:32 GMT



is it possible to open DOS windows ( i use norton desktop 2.0 )
which are larger than 24x80 ?  if i try to strecth the window it
doesn't seem to allow me.

i can live with 80 column width, but i want more than 24 rows..


thanks.
--

/* Ivan, hajadi@sgi.com */
From: RSpitz@Uni-Muenchen.DBP.DE (Richard Spitz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: Diamond Stealth VRAM
Date: 27 Aug 92 09:14:23 GMT
Reply-To: rspitz@uni-muenchen.dbp.de
Organization: Inst. f. Anaesthesiologie der LMU, Muenchen (Germany)

zmola@bert.eecs.uic.edu (Carl Zmola) writes:


>seem to work with Windows, but I can't get into my monitor's
>1024x768x256 Non Interlaced modes.  1024x768x256 Interlaced are
>fine, but they are not nice to watch in flourecent light.

Hi Carl,
you have to tell your Stealth card to use noninterlaced mode before you
start windows. There is a utility on the installation disc that allows you
to do this. You have to select a monitor (if your monitor is not on the
list, you can define custom settings which are supported by your monitor.
Be careful to read the technical specs in your monitor manual, since the
horizontal frequency required for 1024x768 NI is pretty high (around
57 kHz), and that can ruin a monitor that's not built for it.

BTW: The utility is SMODE.COM, and after the monitor selecction, there
has to be a line "SMODE MONITOR" added to your AUTOEXEC.BAT which will
set the Stealth to the desired settings.

Hope that helps,
Richard
From: lchiu@animal.gcs.co.nz (Laurence Chiu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: SVGA drivers for SpeedStar card????
Date: 30 Aug 92 21:48:28 GMT
Organization: GCS Limited, Wellington, New Zealand

In article <moore.715028279@pv34ae.vincent.iastate.edu> moore@iastate.edu (Brian J Moore) writes:
>
>I'm looking for some SVGA drivers for my Diamonds Speedstar card and
>windows 3.1.  I have used several of the TSENG 4000 drivers but they do
>NOT fully support 3.1 features.  The only video drivers that I've found
>to support 3.1 fully have been the drivers that come with windows, but
>these are only 16 color drivers and there isn't a 1024x768 driver with
>them.
>
>What I mean when I say "don't fully supoort 3.1" is this.  In 3.1 you
>can use CTRL-ALT-DEL to abort a hanging app.  If I press C-A-DEL when
>using the plain VGA drivers this functions normally.  If I use the
>ET4000 win drivers or a speedstar driver, the system hangs when I press
>C-A-DEL, it doesn't even reboot.
>
>The other feature is ALT-TABBING from a full screen DOS app.  This works
>using VGA, but not using anything else.
>
>Does anyone know of some SVGA drivers that will allow 256 colors,
>hi-res, and function properly under 3.1?
>
>Thanks,
>Brian
>
>-- 
>   ________________________________________________________________________
>  /                                  /                                    /
> /  Brian J. Moore                  /                  moore@iastate.edu /
>/__________________________________/____________________________________/

Contact Diamond for the 3.1 drivers. I did so and got a disk with the
new drivers. All the features you mention above work fine including
Mouse in a DOS Window and scalable fonts in a DOS Window. I have used
both the normal Speedstar drivers and Turbo Window drivers. The only
feature I have not got to work is VGA in a Window but that is of little
concern to me.

Laurence Chiu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: sofia@psych.toronto.edu (S. Garofano)
Subject: Is it possible to remap keys in Windows??
Organization: U.T.P.D.
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 92 22:46:35 GMT

Is there any (preferably shareware) software available to remap keys in 
Windows 3.1?  Is there a setting in win.ini or some other *.ini file
which I could change?

The kludgy "PC3270" program which I am currently being forced to use to
connect to a very necessary IBM Mainframe connection uses the same key
as Windows to manoeveur between sessions, i.e. "Alt-Esc".  "PC3270" will
allow me to remap all keys except this one.  Will windows allow me to
remap this key?

Help!!  Thanks in advance.  e-mail would be appreciated.

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From: jpm@hpindda.cup.hp.com (John Mckiernan)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 19:38:02 GMT
Subject: Logitech mouse problem in 3.1
Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup

I recently upgraded to MS-WINDOWS 3.1 and found problems
with mouse support inside MS-DOS application windows.  It
did not work at all until I upgraded my MOUSE drivers and
used those supplied with Windows.  My mouse is a LOGITECH
BUS mouse, however, so the next step was to upgrade those
drivers.  Everything seems to be OK now except my PROCOMM
PLUS software.  When I run it in a window (typically) and
it is the 'current' application, moving the mouse anywhere
on the screen generates all kinds of spurious data, and in
some cases PC+ is terminated.  If I revert to the original
Windows mouse drivers, the problem is still there.  The
'solution' so far is to revert to my original LOGITECH
drivers, but lose mouse support in DOS windows.

Anybody have any clues, tips or suggestions ?
From: bleys@infopls.chi.il.us (Bleys Ahrens)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: 32 bit disk access drive list? for win 3.1
Date: 26 Aug 92 18:28:08 GMT
Organization: INFOPLUS support, Wheeling, IL

35007_321@uwovax.uwo.ca (Gord Nickerson) writes:

> In the windows 386 setup there is an option for a permanent disk swapfile.
> The manual mentions that some disk support 32 bit disk access bypassing the
> BIOS for faster read/writes. However, when i called the local computer shop
> and asked if they stocked drives that supported this they didn't know....
> 
> questions:
> 
> Is this a list of 100-200 meg hard drives that are certified to use 32bit
> disk accesses with windows 3.1?  apologies if this is a faq - i looked but
> din't see one..
> 
> if there is no list - those with disks that DO support this feature can
> email me (nickerso@uwovax.uwo.ca) their drive model. I will compile the
> list and post...
> 
> thanks
> g

According to the Windows 3.1 reference kit:
 
"32-bit disk access must exactly match the hard drive controller, not
the specific hard drive.  Windows 3.1 [32-bit disk access] supports the 
standard introduced by Western Digital for 1003 controllers.  This standard
supports all types of hard drive controllers except ESDI and SCSI."

Hopefully your dealer will be able to tell you if the drive match this 
specification.

As I have said before, I strongly recommend the Windows 3.1 reference
kit for Windows power users.  

Hope this helps.

Bleys Ahrens

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: rreiner@nexus.yorku.ca (Richard Reiner)
Subject: Re: Winspeed Drivers Discontinued
Organization: York University
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 18:01:10 GMT

rkl@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (kevin.laux) writes:

>> I called CompUsa here in good Ole' Kansas City and was told the drivers
>> are being discontinued!

> Panacea is readying another release soon (about a month).

It's not surprising that Panacea is readying a new release, as the
current 1.02 release is a full 30% *SLOWER* than the current (4/92)
ET4000 ET4Turbo drivers from Tseng, and also marginally slower than
the plain (non-ET4Turbo) Tseng 4/92 drivers.

WinTach "Overall" results, on my 386-33:

    	        Tseng 4/92	Tseng ET4TURBO 4/92 	WinSpeed 1.02
1024x768-256	3.85	    	4.67	    	    	3.57
 800x600-256	3.07	    	3.58	    	    	2.90

Numbers from WinBench are consistent with these results.

Of course, this applies only to Tseng ET4000-based cards.  The
WinSpeed drivers are still the best available for Trident 8900-based
cards, and perhaps for some others.

Richard

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: rreiner@nexus.yorku.ca (Richard Reiner)
Subject: Re: Winspeed Drivers Discontinued
Organization: York University
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 21:37:29 GMT

edowdy@vax1.umkc.edu writes:

>In another windows group someone commented that they did not notice any speed
>difference for the Trident Boards. Any comment though?
>I am sure he was using the 1.02 release.

I used to have a Trident 8900B 1MB card.  The WinSpeed 1.02 drivers
were impressively faster (on the order of 50%; sorry, I can't get at
my records of the exact figures very easily) than the latest Trident
drivers in the 256 colour modes, as of this past May.

-- 
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Learning, n.  The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, _The Devil's Dictionary_.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: demillo@juliet.ll.mit.edu ( Robert DeMillo )
Subject: Re: Diamond Stealth VRAM
Organization: M.I.T. Lincoln Lab - Group 43
Date: 26 Aug 92 10:10:44


You pretty much answered your own question....

The Paradise card you have obvious can support 640x480x256, but you don't
have a lot of memory. DOS doesn't need a lot of memory because the 
screen is not bitmapped...sure, you popped up a CSHOW image (which is
bitmapped) but CSHOW doesn't do anything other than show an image.
Under Windows, the screen is a constant bitmap, and everything you 
do (like moving the mouse) requires the movement of blocks of video
memory. You don't have a lot of memory on your card, so you can't hold
an entire screen in memory, so you see the card swapping with system RAM
and it shows up as screen noise. (You should also notice that Windows
is running pretty friggin' slow un 256 mode.)

A couple of things...the drivers in Windows are a hell of a lot better than
CSHOW can drive the video. Supposedly the same rez in CSHOW look pathetic 
compared to displaying the same image at the same rez in Windows.

Have fun.

-- Rob



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