#video driver problems
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We are trying to get Animator Pro setup. Having trouble getting the resolution
to 640 by 480. We have loaded the supervga driver referenced in the readme
file, but everytime we select the resolution it locks up the system.
Our equipment is a Gateway 2000 486/33 EISA with 16 meg of RAM and a Diamond
Speed Star video card which uses the tseng 4000 chip. What can you tell us
that will help solve our problem?
Thanks alot, because we are excited to get up and running quickly!!!
Mary Jane
Are you using a memory manager like QEMM? If so, you might need to exclude the
BIOS range of the card. The easiest way to determine if that is the problem is
just to exclude A000-DFFF and see if that fixes the problem. If it does, then
you can narrow the exclusion down to the BIOS area only.
-Chris
Panacea
Chris,
I appreciate the reply, but I do not understand what you say. I am not a
computer
tech. Can you give me more basic clues as to what I would look for? I can
look in my config.sys or autoexec.bat to help me answer the question, but what
am I looking for that will tell me?
Thanks for your taking time to help.
Mary Jane
Mary,
Look in your config.sys file for lines that look similar to this:
DEVICE=C:\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS
or
DEVICE=C:\386MAX\386MAX.SYS
These are two different 3rd party memory managers that might be causing the
problem.
-Chris
Panacea
Chris,
They say Device=C:\drv\himen.sys
Device = c:\drv\emm386.exe ram 880 x=B000-B7FF frame=e000
I remmed out the second line and rebooted and then tried animator pro again,
but it stilled locked up. Any suggestions?
Mary Jane
Mary Jane:
I'm sorry, but I'm jumping in to this thread late…
If you're using DOS 6.0, create the config.sys file so that you can have two
optional setups (see your DOS 6.0 manual) at boot up. One of the setups should
not use Himem.sys or emm386.exe at all… that is the one that you want to use
with AniPro.
C#
Thanks for the tip. I have not gotten Dos 6.0 yet. Was hesitant because of
the bug problems. But I do know that I need help with the dual setup for
config.sys and auto exec.bat. Seems I need one that is just for dos multimedia
programs and then another for windows multimedia programs. I have been
exploring OS2 as they had said that might be helpful, but have not been able to
get OS2 to work yet with all the peripherals SCSI 2 devices I have for
multimedia. Still need drivers for the 5-1/4 removable optical drives.
Any ideas where they write down BASIC config.sys and autoexec.bats for us non
techies. I looked in DOS for DUMMIES, but they were not helpful.
Thanks for the suggestion . ,,,,,Mary Jane
What 5-1/4 optical drives do you have? Have you look in the IBM OS/2 forum for
some help?
Ana
I have the Pinnacle PMO 650 magnetic optical drive. It works super, but causes
lots of compatibility problems with other SCSI devices. I have spent many
hours on phone with IBM, bottom line was that we need Pinnacle to write a
driver for OS2.
Mary Jane
This sounds strange to me. I have the Pinnacle PMO128 (i think big, but my
budget not <g>) and it comes with drivers for DOS, UNIX and OS/2. Someone
opints out that Pinnacle are a company that's mainly aimed to Unix, but it
seems strange to me that they don't have OS/2 drivers for their Big Star.
Anyway, a great drive 🙂
Ana
ps. I miss a pinnacle forum, section or rep in the CD-ROM forum. I have hear
that they have a BBS. Do you know something about it?
Mary,
Vibrant Graphics makes an inexpensive graphics driver for Animator called
ProRes/Animator. It would support all of the modes available on your ET 4000
chip. You can reach Vibrant at 800-937-1711.
Best Regards,
Brian Massey Vibrant Graphics
Brian,
Thanks for the replay. I have two other things to try, suggestions from other
helpful people such as yourself, so if that doesn't work, I will give Vibrant a
call.
Thanks for the reply
Mary Jane
Install TLIVESA.COM first.