# | README file for GLADIAC series | | ELSA graphics display driver for | Windows 2000 - RC3 Build 2183 and newer | | Version: 5.08.00.300 | | Copyright (c) 2000 ELSA AG (Aachen, Germany) | | ELSA AG Internet: http://www.elsa.de | Sonnenweg 11 | 52070 Aachen | Germany | | ELSA Inc. Internet: http://www.elsa.com | 1630 Zanker Road | San Jose, CA 95112 | 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 | | 04/28/2000, MKreiten\KLux\MWolf Table of Contents: 1 Introduction 2 List of Installation Files 3 Installation 4 Known Problems 5 Version History -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Introduction This file explains how to setup and to configure the ELSA Windows 2000 driver software for your graphics board. 1.2 Further Information For more information on configuring installed ELSA graphics drivers, refer to the Windows Help or to the help files to ELSA utilities. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 List of Installation Files The directory with the ELSA graphics driver for Windows NT contains the following files: GLADIAC.INF script file for the installation GLADIAC.CAT catalog file DISK1 source disk identifier README.TXT the file you are currently reading LIESMICH.TXT german version of readme.txt EGDAM.SY_ miniport driver (compressed) EGDAD.DL_ display driver (compressed) EOGLGDA.DL_ OpenGL ICD driver (compressed) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 Installation NOTE: This driver was designed for full functionality under Windows 2000 RC3 (Build 2183) or newer only! 3.1 Installation of the ELSA graphics driver First shut down your computer and exchange the graphics board with the GLADIAC. Your graphics board requires an hardware interrupt (IRQ). Please assign a unique IRQ to the slot which is related to your graphics board in the mainboard BIOS if it provides this option. At Windows 2000 startup, it selects the default standard VGA driver or a driver provided by the graphics chip vendor. Please note that none of these drivers supports the full functionality which is provided by this board. To install this graphics driver you have to ensure to have administrator rights for your Windows 2000 system. Please close all running applications before installing any new driver. There are several ways in Windows 2000 to install a display adapter, a universal way is to use the 'Device Manager'. Right-click the icon 'My Computer' on your windows desktop. Select 'Manage' to start the Windows 2000'Computer Management Console'. Select the entry 'Device Manager'. The entry of your graphics adapter is located either in 'Other Devices' or in 'Display Adapters'. Open the properties window for the display adapter by right-clicking the entry. (If there isn't an entry for any display device, you should right-click the root icon on the right Window and activate 'Scan for hardware changes'.) Select the tab 'Driver' and then 'Update Driver' to start the Windows 2000 'Upgrade Device Driver Wizard'. Click 'Next >' to close the welcome dialog and select 'display a list of known drivers...'. Click 'Next'. Depending on where the entry has been located, another dialog may appear, asking what kind of Hardware should be installed. In that case, select 'Graphics Adapter'. After confirmation Windows starts searching for known drivers. Please select the 'Have disk...' button and change the entry to the location of your new drivers (i.e 'E:\GLADIAC\WIN2000') by the 'browse...' button. After that, the update device driver window shows a listing of boards supported by the display driver. Select your hardware and click 'Next >'Apply' or 'Yes' until the finishing dialog appears. Confirm and close all dialog windows. If required Windows 2000 will ask for restarting the computer. The driver installation is finished. To change the display resolution please open the display properties dialog again (e.g by right-clicking the desktop and choose 'Properties' from pop-up menu) and select 'Settings'. By clicking the button 'Advanced...' and choose 'Monitor' you will be able to change the refresh rate of your display. Please note that only display refresh frequencies of 75 Hz or above are suitable for ergonomic working. Your monitor should be configurated correctly also, to provide proper refresh rates. To check or do this, start the display properties like described above, select the 'Settings' tab, click 'Advanced...', the 'Monitor' tab, 'Properties...', the 'Driver' tab of the following dialog and click on 'Update Driver...'. The assistant asks for the monitor driver disk. Please confirm everything, restarting your system won't be necessary. NOTE: With the installation of the Windows 2000 driver, the ELSA OpenGL driver is automatically installed, too. Please don't use any other OpenGL driver but the originally provided with the installed display driver files. 3.2 Making Installation Disks To create installation disks for the ELSA graphics driver you will need an empty floppy disk labeled: "ELSA Windows 2000 DISK 1". Copy the files from the according graphics board directory on the driver CD-ROM to the prepared disk. 3.3. Determining the Version Number of the Driver via the Driver Files Use the Explorer to inspect the file properties for one of the files EGDAM.SYS or EGDAD.DLL. The file EGDAM.SYS can be found in the directory System32\Drivers, the EGDAD.DLL file in the System32 directory of your Windows 2000 installation. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Known Problems: - The display driver is installed successfully, but after rebooting the system, the driver is not activated. Your graphics board requires a free IRQ to work properly. Please assign a unique IRQ to the slot which is related to your graphics board. Be sure to have no hardware conflicts with other installed hardware components. - Some programs will not work correctly because they are not designed to run with Windows 2000. - This version will not work with Windows 2000 releases earlier than RC3. - There ist no automatically setup program implemented. Please install this driver manually. - Some D3D benchmark applications like 3DMark2000 may crash sporadically. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. Version History: - 5.07.00.290 first driver for GLADIAC - 5.07.00.292 first support of GLADIAC-64 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------