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#121461From: Paul LiSep 1, 1994 12:31 AM

1. Does anyone know if there is a mouse driver that will allow a KURTA digitizer to work as a mouse driver in Animator Pro? 2. Is there a special driver designed to work with Matrox cards when running Animator Pro or 3dStudio? Matrox' vesa tsr is not compatible with Animator Pro nor 3dStudio – believe me, I've tried it on both programs. Please help…thanks.3

#121507From: Bob ProkoppSep 1, 1994 9:09 AM

Hi Paul, 1. Does anyone know if there is a mouse driver that will allow a KURTA digitizer to work as a mouse driver in Animator Pro? >> I ran some tests with various digitizers and found that your best bet would be to emulate a Summagraphic digitizer. There should be a section in the Kurta manual that discusses emulation modes. You should also contact Kurta to see if they have any special mouse emulation utilities. 2. Is there a special driver designed to work with Matrox cards when running Animator Pro or 3dStudio? Matrox' vesa tsr is not compatible with Animator Pro nor 3dStudio – believe me, I've tried it on both programs. >> If you're using the VESA driver that shipped with the board, I'd recommend contacting Matrox's BBS to see if a newer driver is available. I ran into this with their Illuminator board and 3DS. Another option might be to try the UNIVESA tsr that is located in one of our library sections. (Sorry, I can't remember which one, but a search will find it) The last thing I could offer might be to try a third party driver like PanaMate or PanaRender from Panacea. I hope this helps, Bob

#121522From: Paul LiSep 1, 1994 10:07 AM

Thanks for your quick response Bob. I'm going to chk. out my Kurta manual. I'm sure I can get it to emulate some kind of summagraphics mouse driver. And regarding the vesa tsr, I've left a message on the Matrox forum and also contacted their tech. support. I do know that I have the latest vesa tsr., and I was told by their tech. support that their vesa tsr is designed for dos games. If I want to view hi-res flic files, forget DOS and use windows. I don't know how true this is but I'm still waiting a response from Dave White on the Matrox forum. Now, regarding the univesa driver, I had down loaded that at one time too. I'm hope I didn't erase it off my system since it had not worked properly with a trident card I had. But thanks for the advice I'll try it with the Matrox card before I spend any more money on getting other third party drivers.

#121744From: Bob ProkoppSep 2, 1994 12:17 PM

If you don't want to wait for Matrox to get back to you, try their BBS number: 514) 685-6008 You can scroll through and see if they've got any newer drivers for you board. Bob

#122737From: Paul LiSep 8, 1994 1:15 AM

Thanks for your suggestion Bob. Maybe I'll try that. It's just too bad that with the latest mgavesa.com tsr I still can get the Impression Matrox card to do what the manual saids it can do…

#121775From: Jeremy Hubbell [Adesk]Sep 2, 1994 4:29 PM

Paul, You don't have to emulate the Summagraphics in AAPRO, just make sure the Kurta is in relative mode. You can do this in the K_CONFIG program. Then it acts just like a mouse. I've set up a Kurta XGT in relative mode and believe it or not, I can run Windows, AAPRO, 3DS and many other programs WITHOUT having to change configurations!

#122738From: Paul LiSep 8, 1994 1:17 AM

Thanks Jeremy for your reply. I'll try and see if I have my Kurta in relative or absolute mode. The strange thing is that the digitizer does work on a small portion 1/4 of the screen so I can really reacjh any of the pull downs with the digitizer. But I'll chk. on the mode I'm in and maybe that'll solve the problem. Thanks again.