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	| README file for
	|
        | ELSA WINNER Windows 95 Driver Disk, ver 1.04
	|
	|       WINNER 1000 (ISA/EISA, PCI, VL)
	|       WINNER 1000PRO
	|       WINNER 1000AVI
        |       WINNER 1000PRO/X
        |       WINNER 1000TRIO
	|       WINNER 2000 (ISA/EISA, VL)
	|       WINNER 2000AVI
	|       WINNER 2000PRO
	|       WINNER 2000PRO/X
	|       GLoria
	|
	| Copyright (c) 1994-95 ELSA GmbH, Aachen (Germany)
	|
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        | 11/27/95, js, sd


	Contents

	1. Overview
	2. Contents
	3. Installation
	4. History
	5. Release Notes
	6. Known Bugs and Operating Notes
        7. Notes for the multiple screen dispatcher MULTIman


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1.      Overview

        This disk contains the ELSA WINNER Display Driver for
        Microsoft Windows 95.

	The drivers support 256, 32768 and 16 Million colors in all
	resolutions available on used ELSA WINNER board.

        For the WINNER 2000PRO/X and WINNER 1000AVI there is the
        multiple screen dispatcher MULTIman available. So you can
        display the Windows desktop on two or more monitors to get a
        bigger working place.


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2.      Contents

	Almost all files are compressed, their names are slighly
	changed.  Please note that the files can NOT just be copied
	from this disk. (see installation)

	The directory contains the following files:
        The files marked with (a) are not contained on the PRO/X and
        GLoria disk. The (x)-marked files are only available on this
        disk

	DATE.DOC        file identifying the disk, prod. date, etc.
	README.TXT      the file you currently look at
	LIESMICH.TXT    german version of README
	ELSAINI.TXT     additional informations for file ELSA.INI
			(german)

        WINNER.DRV    a driver file for "Non-PRO"-boards
        WINPRO.DRV    a driver file for "PRO"-boards
	WINPRX.DRV      driver file for TRIO, AVI, PRO/X, GLoria
        MMNPRX.DRV    x Display driver file for MULTIman
        MMAN.DRV      x MULTIman dispatcher driver
        MINIWIN.VXD     virtual mini display driver
        WINIC95.DLL     display driver extension (initialization)
        WINEX32.DLL     display driver extension (32 bit extensions)
        ELSAD16.DLL     display driver extension
                        (Direct Draw interface)
        ELSADD.DLL      display driver extension (Direct Draw HAL)

        ELSAISP1.INF  a device information file for ELSA boards
        ELSAISP2.INF  x device information file for ELSA boards
        ELSAMON1.INF    device information file for ELSA monitors

	WINMAN.EXE      WINman program
	WINMAN.MON      WINman monitor configuration file
	WINMADEU.DLL    german resource DLL for WINman
	WINMAENG.DLL    english resource DLL for WINman
	WINMADEU.HLP    german help file for WINman
	WINMAENG.HLP    english help file for WINman

	In case of trouble during or after installation, please make
	sure you have all the files mentioned above!


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3.      Installation

	This section descibes the steps to install a ELSA WINNER
	Display Driver for Windows 95


3.1     Install over older versions of the ELSA WINNER Driver

	- Delete in the WINDOWS\INF directory the copies of the
	  older versions ELSADISP.INF (named OEM?.INF).
	- Install the original MS-S3 driver to build a new Device
	  Information Database.
	- Now follow th steps, described in section 3.2.


3.2     First installation of ELSA WINNER Display Drivers

	First install Windows 95 without special drivers for the ELSA
	WINNER graphics board. The installation procedure should
	install a Microsoft driver for boards based on S3 chips.

	The installation of the ELSA WINNER Display Driver starts from
	the Windows desktop.

	- Start the dialog "Properties for Display" by clicking right
	  mouse button on the desktop or per Control Panel.
	- Select the Property Page "Settings"
	- Push the button "Change Display Type...". A dialog "Change
	  Display Type" will pop up.
	- Push the button "Change..." inside the frame "Adapter Type".
	  You will see the "Select Device" dialog.
	- In this dialog push the button "Have Disk..." and insert the
	  ELSA WINNER Windows95 Driver Disk in the appropiate drive.
        - Select in the "Manufacturer" list ELSA WINNER Display Driver
          and in the list "Models" your WINNER board.
	- If you use an ELSA monitor, make the same procedure for
	  "Monitor Type" in the "Change Display Type" dialog.
        - Close the dialog "Change Display Type". At this time the
          screen flickers a moment. This is not a bug! Windows tries to
          find out, which graphics modes are available with this
          driver.
        - Now you can select resolution and color depth in the main
          dialog "Properties for Display". For the first installation
          you should select 1024x768 and 256 colors. This configuration
          is available for all memory configurations on all ELSA
          Boards.
        - Close "Properties for Display" by "OK" or "Apply
          now".

	Normally you need to boot your system. Push the button "Restart
	now".

	In all following Windows sessions you can change the resolution
	without rebooting your system.

3.3.    MULTIman Installation

        The MULTIman installation occurs exact in the same way as the
        normal display drivers.

                !!! IMPORTANT NOTE !!!

        Because Windows evaluates the maximal resolution of your
        installed monitor, you normally will not have the option to
        select a high resolution in the Display Control Panel. To
        circumvent this, before you install the MULTIman, you must
        select the "MULTIman" monitor
        (.../Monitor Type/Change.../Have Disk)

        Not also to have plugged in ALL graphics boards, you want to
        use with MULTIman, before you install the MULTIman driver.
        If you want to remove one additional board, FIRST select a
        normal driver.


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4.      Revision History

	This section describes changes to the previous releases of this
	disk.

	Version 1.01 - first release.


4.1     Version 1.02

	- "Smoothy screen fonts" now works.

	- Problems when using "Mouse Trails" with color and or animated
	  cursors fixed.


4.2     Version 1.03

        - "Quick color depth change" now possible with Microsoft
           QuickRes v2.0. (see 6.5.)

        - Support for POWERdraft for Windows 95 added.

        - DCI and DirectDraw support added

        - Refresh-Rate support added.


4.3.    Version 1.04

        - Polygon-support: You can switch off driver support of
          polygons by adding the line
            Polygon=0
          to the section [Settings] in your ELSA.INI file.

        - Colored hardware cursors only supperted, if the line
            ColorCursor=1
          exists in the section [Settings] in the ELSA.INI file.

        - Direct Draw, Pen Windows and Virtual Screen support added.

        - Some problems with refresh rate support fixed.



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5.      Release notes

5.1     ELSA.INI entries

	The working mode of the driver can manipulate by entries in the
	file ELSA.INI. Normally you will need to reboot your machine to
	mak this settings working. In later releases ELSA will
	distribute a tool change working paramters more easy.

	The following table shows the meaning of this entries:

	Section [Settings]

	CursorFG/CursorBK

		With this two entries you can change the color of the
		hardware cursor. The format is:
			CursorFG=0xrrggbb
		at which rr, gg and bb are the hexadecimal values in
		the range 00 to FF of the bas color components.

	RefreshRate

		You can change the vertical refresh rate by the entry
			Hz=nn
		Be carefully by changing this entry. To big values may
		destroy your monitor.

	Section [Hardware]

	CursorType

		In few resolution/color combinations on some S3-based
		graphic boards the hardware cursor doesn't work. In
		this cases you can force the usage of a software cursor
		by inserting the line
			CursorType=SW
		in your ELSA.INI file.
		This affects WINNER 1000 ISA/EISA, VL and PCI.

	Video-RAM base address and size

		Windows'95 needs direct access to the frambuffer of
		your graphics board. Normally this takes place by 64kB
		segments, mapped into the address space above 0A0000h.
		On VL and PCI systems you can map the full video RAM
		into the host address space. This increases the
		performance of multimedia applications.
		For example, insert the line
			VRAM-Base=0xA0000000
		to map the video RAM at the physical address
		A00000000h.
		Note that this address has to be above the end of your
		main memory and that it has to be a multiple of the RAM
		size of your graphics board. Additionally the end of the
		graphics RAM must not be above the addressable range of
		your bus type. These are for ISA bus 16MB, VL 128MB and
		PCI 4GB.
		If you specify a VRAM-Base you also need to insert a
		VRAM-Size entry:
		  for WINNER 1000AVI, WINNER 2000AVI,
		      WINNER 2000PRO/X and GLoria use
			VRAM-Size=0x4000000
		  and for all other (previous) WINNER use
		  the size of the video memory in bytes.


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6.      Known Bugs and Operating Notes

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


6.1     Videomode not available

	Because the controls for Desktop area and Color resolution
	display ALL possible modes on ALL WINNER boards not all
	indicated resolutions are available. The attempt to select such
	a mode fails. Windows rejects this attempt with a corresponding
	notification message.


6.2     No mouse pointer visible

        On the WINNER 1000, WINNER 1000VL, and WINNER 1000PCI under
        32 bpp no mouse pointer is visible. Enable Mouse Trails with a
        very short trail in "Properties for Mouse" in the Control Panel.


6.3     After the installation no mouse cursor is visible

	Probably there is no ELSA WINNER graphics driver active, but
	a standard driver for Microsoft S3 processors. This driver
	cannot recognize the the ELSA WINNER graphics board correctly.

	- To avoid this problem please install the ELSA WINNER graphics
	  driver for Windows 95.
	- Shut down Windows 95 with ALT-F4. While starting press F8.
	  In the following menu choose the third entry "3. Save mode".
	  Windows 95 will now start in a save mode with standard VGA
	  resolution. Now install the ELSA WINNER driver for Windows 95.

	or:
	- Activate the software cursor (e.g. animated mouse cursor) or
	  the mouse track.

	Hints:
	When the Device Manager recognizes the ELSA WINNER graphics
        board correctly, it is possible that no ELSA WINNER driver is
        active.
	With the Device Manager you can get information for all
	drivers (e.g. company). With the ELSA driver you will find
	the entry "ELSA GmbH Aachen (Germany)".


6.4     WINNER 1000AVI-VL

	This board works only with up to 64MB main memory. The S3 chips
	868/968 need 64MB physical address space and the VL-bus can
	only access 128 MB. For this board use the following entries
	in the section [Hardware] in your ELSA.INI file:
		VRAM-Base=0x4000000
		VRAM-Size=0x4000000


6.5     QuickRes 2.0 and Hardware Cursor

        Now it is possible to change the current Color-resolution
        (BPP) without rebooting Windows. Microsoft QuickRes 2.0
        switches the CursorType to Software when changing the
        color resolution. You can switch back to Hardware Cursor with
        "Properties for Mouse". Click Motion/Trail "on" and "off".

6.6	GLoria-8

	The resolution 1024 x 768 in 8 bpp (256 colors) could cause
	problems with vertical refresh rates higher than 100 Hz.

6.7.    Unknown and PnP-monitors

        If you don't have selected a Monitor or you have a PnP (DDC1)
        Monitor, in all graphics modes the default refresh rate is
        60Hz. The DDC case is becaus a bug in Windows DDC support
        You can change to a higher refresh rate with the program
        WINman. WINman, unlike Windows, can evaluate the monitor
        information provaided by DDC exact.

6.8.    Software cursor problems

        On WINNER 1000 boards some screen flicker occurs, if moving
        the mouse pointer somewhere on the lower border of screen.

6.9.    Drawing errors in "grayed" text items

        On the PRO/X, AVI, GLoria and TRIO boards some drawing failures 
        occur after a resolution switch without rebooting the system. 
        Often this bug is seen in the text items on disabled buttons or 
        menu items. This bug will be fixed in the next driver revision.

6.10.   MULTIman problems

        see section 7.3.

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7.      Notes for the multiple screen dispatcher MULTIman

7.1.    Supported boards

        MULTIman only supports two or more WINNER 2000PRO/X boards.

7.2.    Direct Draw and DCI

        MULTIman doesn't support Direct Draw nor DCI.

7.3.    Known MULTIman bugs and problems

7.3.1.  Software cursors

        Usage of software cursors (Mouse Trails or Color Pointers) 
        may cause screen corruption. Please use hardware cursor when 
        ever possible.
        This bug will be fixed in the next driver revision.

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