I just loaded 3ds on a new Gateway 2000 P5-66 w/ Viper PCI Card. 3DS won't
start. I get an Installation error #1404 : VESA function 0 failed or is not
suppoted. It goes on to say "A required VESA function to query the VESA BIOS
either failed or is not supported. Most likely, a VESA compliant BIOS is not
present, or the VESA system is corrupted. You may have installed the incorrect
VESA VBE for your VGA."
Has anybody been down this road before I'm going start manuals tonight.
Is their a 3DS driver for this board?
Firstly, you should get the udpated VIB3DS.ZIP (v1.01 or v1.02) in LIB
9… there were some problems with PCI versions of the Diamond
Viper.
The problem you are having is because the driver is configured, but
default, to use VESA mode for the Materials Editor… The Diamond
Viper PCI BIOS doesn't support this mode. You should run '3ds
vibcfg' to configure for a different board. The Installation Guide
covers this very thoughly…