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	| README file for
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	| ELSA WINNER Windows driver, ver 5.33
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	|       WINNER 2000PRO/X
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        | 10/23/97, GBorgs


	Table of Contents:

	1.      Overview
	2.      Contents
	3.      Installation
	4.      Using Windows with a 2nd graphics board
	5.      Caveats


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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.


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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!


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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 5.1
	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 5.1 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.


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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"


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5.      Caveats

	This section documents known anomalies or problems and gives
	hints on work arounds.


5.1     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)


5.2     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.


5.3     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).
