=============================================================================== Stealth64 Graphics 2001 Series README.TXT =============================================================================== OS/2 Warp Driver July 14, 1995 VERSION: 3.04 DISKETTE LABEL: ARK_OSWARP CONTENT ------- I. INTRODUCTION II. INSTALLING DRIVERS III. SELECTING DIFFERENT RESOLUTIONS AND REFRESH RATES IV. SELECTING REFRESH RATES (ANOTHER ALTERNATIVE) V. FILE DESCRIPTIONS I. INTRODUCTION ----------------- This version of OS/2 Warp Drivers will not work on OS/2 2.1 nor 2.11. If you need drivers for these previous versions of OS/2 system, please contact your respective manufacturer. The supported resolutions and refresh rates are: 640x480 256 colors at 60Hz, 72Hz, 90Hz 800x600 256 colors at 56Hz, 60Hz, 72Hz, 90Hz 1024x768 256 colors at 43Hz(I), 60Hz, 70Hz, 75Hz 1280x1024 256 colors at 43Hz(I), 60Hz 640x480 64K hi-colors at 60Hz, 72Hz, 90Hz 800x600 64K hi-colors at 56Hz, 60Hz, 72Hz, 75Hz 1024x768 64K hi-colors at 43Hz(I), 60Hz, 70Hz, 75Hz ** (I): Interlaced refresh rates This driver supports multi-resolution and multi-refresh-rate selections without having to install and copy different drivers at selection time. This means that you only do installation once and that's all. Performance of this driver has been greatly enhanced too as much more graphics hardware acceleration power are being utilized. The main tool for installing display drivers is the DSPINSTL.EXE. In general, the steps involving Stealth64 2001 drivers installation follow the steps outlined in the IBM manual, "Using the Operating System" very closely. You could refer to the section "Installing a New Display Adapter" in that manual for more details before following the steps below. Also, if you encounter some problems after this installation, you should be able to recover the standard VGA display settings by following the section "Recovering from an Incorrect Display Type Selection" in the IBM manual. (During system reboot, before OS/2 logo is shown, there is a white rectangle on the upper left corner of the screen. Hit simultaneously and you will get a text descriptions with some options Then type "V" to select the restoration of standard VGA display resolution.) If you prefer to back up modified/replaced files, you will find the list of these files in Section "V. FILE DESCRIPTIONS" of this readme. To select different display resolutions and refresh rates, please refer to Section "III. SELECTING DIFFERENT RESOLUTIONS AND REFRESH RATES" of this readme. BEWARE that the choice that you select could damage the monitors that could not sustain high refresh rates. *** Notes on WIN-OS/2 and SEAMLESS Windows Support: *** *** In order to have WIN-OS/2 and SEAMLESS Windows capabilities, be sure *** *** to go through the proper OS/2 Operating System installation as *** *** outlined in IBM OS/2 Installation Manual. (You will need to have *** *** Microsoft Windows 3.1 or Win-OS/2 installed in your system prior *** *** to OS/2 installation. Then be sure to select "WIN-OS/2 Support" *** *** option during initial OS/2 installation through Selective Install *** *** Utility. *** II. INSTALLING DRIVERS ----------------------- Before you start this installation process, you MUST make sure that you are in standard VGA mode. Use Selective Install utility to select standard VGA display resolution or follow the VGA recovering process mentioned in Section "I. INTRODUCTION". Always refer to IBM user manual when you have doubts. Step 1: Make sure that you have the Stealth64 Graphics 2001 OS/2 driver diskette in the appropriate floppy drive. The disk label should specify that it is for OS/2 WARP display drivers. Step 2: Open an OS/2 window or OS/2 full-screen command prompt. Step 3: Make sure that the command prompt shows the ***RIGHT DRIVE LETTER*** where driver diskette resides. (For example, if the diskette is in floppy drive A, type A: followed by an first before doing the instruction below.) Type DSPINSTL followed by an . Step 4: A Panel appears with a few options on it. Select "Primary Display" option. At this time and in subsequent steps, you could always click on Help to get some on-line help messages or click on Cancel to stop from being going forwards. Step 5: Another panel appears asking you to verify if you have the "Stealth64 Graphics 2001 SVGA" display adapter. Select OK. Step 6: The next panel asks if you would like to "Install Using Default for Monitor Type" or some other utility. Select the option with that says Using Default. Step 7: "Determining hardware configuration..." is what you will be seeing next. Then the screen goes flickering for a few seconds. Once the flickers stop, the screen will prompt you for the source of Stealth64 Graphics 2001 drivers. It should show the Floppy Drive letter where diskette resides. If not, choose the right drive letter. Select "Install..." to continue. Step 8: Some windows start appearing, showing the directories where drivers and related are copied into. Once these windows stop, a message box will inform you to re-start the system. Select OK to close this box and to get back to OS/2 window command prompt. Step 9: The better way to re-start the system is to issue the shut-down command. You could do so by selecting the "Shut down" button in LaunchPad window or from Desktop Pop-up menu (move your mouse pointer to an empty area then click on right mouse button. You will see a "Shut down" menu item.) The other way is to hit keys simulationsly and the system will reboot. Once the system's re-start process is completed, you will see a new screen with new default display resolution which is 640 pixel-wide by 480 height with 256 colors at 60Hz refresh rate. You could also make a new display resolution selection immediately after Step 9 (before Step 10) by going through Section "III. SELECTING DIFFERENT RESOLUTIONS AND REFRESH RATES". Under the directory :\OS2\INSTALL, there is a log file called DSPINSTL.LOG. You can look into this file for information regarding what files are being installed and if you go through DSPINSTL process successfully. III. SELECTING DIFFERENT RESOLUTIONS AND REFRESH RATES ------------------------------------------------------ You have to go through Section "II. INSTALLING DRIVERS" first. *************************************************************************** *** BEWARE that the refresh rate that you select may not be supported *** *** by your monitor. This could damage your monitor. Please refer to *** *** your monitor's specification if you are not sure. *** *************************************************************************** Step 1: Open "OS/2 System" Folder by double-clicking "OS/2 System" Icon. Step 2: Double-click "System Setup" icon in OS/2 System Folder that you just opened. Step 3: Look for the icon with the title "System". Double-click it. Step 4: On the first page of this "System - Setting" notebook window, you should see Screen resolution with refresh rate. Choose the ones that you prefer. When you click on a selection, some message will appear indicating that you need to shut down the system to have your choice to be effective. Step 5: OPTIONAL. If you click on the right arrow at the bottom of the page (which says "Screen - Page 1 of 2"), you will see Page 2. Now, the page says "Change Display Configuration." The pull-down menu under "Display name" should indicate "DEFAULT" if you have not made any monitor selection yet. To choose the monitor configuration that matches (or matches closely to) your current monitor, click the down-ward arrow of this pull-down menu first, then select a monitor name. You could click on the "View Current Configuration" button to see if the monitor selection you just made matches with the refresh rates supported by the Stealth64 2001 driver. Step 6: Restart the system. (See Step 9 of Section "II. INSTALLING DRIVERS"). If you happen to select a refresh rate that is causing heavy flickers or even shuts down your monitor, immediately choose a much lower refresh rate (the default 640x480x256 60Hz or 43Hz Interlaced resolutions are usually safer) and restart the system. If the screen is not viewable, you have to re-start the system using sequence and follow the standard VGA restoration process as mentioned in Section "I. INTRODUCTION". Then within standard VGA resolution, re-do the installation process again by following Section "II. INSTALLING DRIVERS". IV. SELECTING REFRESH RATES (ANOTHER ALTERNATIVE) ------------------------------------------------- If after installing the drivers and going through Section "III. SELECTING DIFFERENT RESOLUTIONS AND REFRESH RATES", you still CANNOT find an appropriate monitor to choose from (Step 5 of Section III), you can TRY the instructions below. Usually, you only need to do the steps listed in this Section when your monitor can sustain much higher refresh rates than listed in OS/2 "System - Setting" notebook (please refer to Steps 1 - 4 of Section III). You need to be fairly knowledgeable in your monitor's capabilities in terms of horizontal and vertical refresh rates before choosing the refresh rates that you would like to set to. *************************************************************************** *** BEWARE that the refresh rate that you select may not be supported *** *** by your monitor. This could damage your monitor. Please refer to *** *** your monitor's specification if you are not sure. *** *************************************************************************** Step 1: Open a DOS Full Screen Window under OS/2. Step 2: Change your directory to :\OS2 Step 3: Type SVGA ON MONITOR followed by an . Step 4: A menu appears asking you to enter the key for your preferred refresh rate. Step 5: Enter the key of your chosen refresh rate followed by an . You can also enter a list of keys with space between each key. Step 6: The screen will be flickering for a few seconds before you get the DOS prompt back. Step 7: Close DOS Full Screen Window by typing EXIT on command prompt. Step 8: Re-start the system. (See Step 9 of Section "II. INSTALLING DRIVERS"). Step 9: When the system start up process completes, follow the steps in Section "III. SELECTING DIFFERENT RESOLUTIONS AND REFRESH RATES" for the resolution desired. This time, you will not be able to see any refresh rate listing in the "System - Setting" notebook as refresh rate for each resolution is pre-set by the steps you just went through. To recover from this alternative to the regular refresh rate selection, follow the following steps: Step 1: Open a DOS Full Screen Window under OS/2. Step 2: Change your directory to :\OS2 Step 3: Type SVGA ON INIT followed by an . Step 4: Close DOS Full Screen Window by typing EXIT on command prompt. Step 5: Re-start the system. (See Step 9 of Section "II. INSTALLING DRIVERS"). Step 6: Follow the steps in Section "III. SELECTING DIFFERENT RESOLUTIONS AND REFRESH RATES" for the resolution and refresh rate desired. V. FILES DESCRIPTIONS ---------------------- Assuming D: is the OS/2 boot drive, and C:\WINDOWS is where Microsoft Windows 3.1 is installed OS/2 Files ---- Files modified: D:\CONFIG.SYS *** Note: OS/2 CONFIG.SYS, not DOS D:\OS2\OS2.INI *** Use ATTRIB.EXE to unprotect D:\OS2\OS2SYS.INI *** Use ATTRIB.EXE to unprotect D:\OS2\INSTALL\REINSTAL.INI D:\OS2\INI.RC Files replaced: D:\OS2\SVGA.EXE D:\OS2\SCREEN01.SYS D:\OS2\DLL\BVHSVGA.DLL D:\OS2\MDOS\VSVGA.SYS Files added: D:\OS2\SVGADATA.PMI *** Note: Generated by SVGA.EXE D:\OS2\DLL\IBMARK32.DLL D:\OS2\DLL\ARKPMI.DLL D:\OS2\DLL\ARKINST.DLL D:\OS2\INSTALL\PSARK.DSC Windows 3.1 (Seamless and WIN-OS/2) Files ---- Files modified: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM.INI C:\WINDOWS\WIN.INI Files added: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\A8MFLSM.DRV C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\A8MFLOS.DRV C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\A16FLSM.DRV C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\A16FLOS.DRV Contacting DIAMOND ------------------ Diamond can be reached through a number of ways: Postal Service : Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc. 2880 Junction Avenue San Jose, CA 95134 Voice (Main) : (408) 325-7000 Voice (TechSppt): (408) 325-7100 [M-F 6-7; Sat 8-4 Pacific] [plus 24hr automated help] FAX (Main) : (408) 325-7070 FAX (Support) : (408) 325-7171 BBS (to 2400) : (408) 325-7080 BBS (9600+) : (408) 325-7175 CompuServe : GO DMNDONLINE America Online : GO DIAMOND All product names listed are trademarks or copyrights of their respective owners. ================================================================================ Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc. 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