The Retro Web Video-57P Graphics and Motion Video Accelerator User Manual

Features Overview:
- The Video-57P Graphics and Motion Video Accelerator offers various features including GUI acceleration, video CODEC acceleration, full-motion video playback, true-color video playback, and compatibility with different monitor types.
Compatibility and Display:
- The accelerator is compatible with 486 or Pentium PCI Local Bus systems and supports a wide range of resolutions and color selections from 640×480 to 1600×1200.
Software Drivers and Utilities:
- The product comes with software drivers for various operating systems including MS Windows/WFW, Windows 95, Windows NT, OS/2 Warp, and more. Additionally, utilities like SVM.EXE and SMONITOR.EXE are included for enhanced functionality.
Motion Video Playback:
- The accelerator supports motion video playback with features like Color Space Conversion, Hardware Horizontal and Vertical Scaling, and Video Overlay for an enhanced viewing experience.

FAQs

Q: What monitors are compatible with the Video-57P Graphics and Motion Video Accelerator?
- A: The accelerator is compatible with non-interlaced or interlaced monitors, Multi-Scanning and PS/2 monitors, and VESA DCC2 monitors.
Q: What are the supported resolutions and color selections?
- A: Resolutions range from 640×480 to 1600×1200 with color depths including 16, 256, 32K, 64K, and 16M colors depending on the resolution.

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Video-57P
Graphics and Motion Video Accelerator
User’s Manual
Version 2.1

SHIELDED CABLE WARNING
This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures:
Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna. Increase the separation between the equipment and the receiver. Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected. Consult an experienced radio/TV technician for help.
The user may find the following booklet prepared by the Federal Communications Commission helpful:
“How to Identify and Resolve Radio/TV Interference Problems”. This booklet is available from the U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402, Stock No. 004-000-00345-4. This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation, “SHIELD INTERFERENCE CABLE(S) MUST BE USED ACCORDING TO FCC 15.27©.” CAUTION: Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the Manufacturer could void your authority to operate this equipment in accordance with FCC rules and regulations.
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NOTICE
The information in this document is subject to change in order to improve reliability, design, or function without prior notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of this company. In no event will we be liable for direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages arising out of the use or the inability to use the product or documentation, even if advised of the possibility of such damages. No part of this reference manual may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission. August, 1996
LIMITED WARRANTY
This product is warranted against defects in materials and workmanship for a period of one year from the date of purchase from authorized dealer or reseller or two years from date manufactured, whichever come first. During the warranty period, product determined by us to be defective in form or function will be repaired or at our option, replaced at no charge. This warranty does not apply if the product has been damaged by accident, abuse, misuse, or as a result of service or modification other than by us. This warranty is in lieu of any other warranty expressed or implied. In no event shall we be held liable for incidental or consequential damages, such as lost revenue or lost business opportunities arising from the purchase of this product.
TRADEMARK ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Video-57P and MediaCircle are registered trademarks of Jaton Corporation.
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Introduction

Chapter 1 Introduction
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
Congratulation on your purchase of Jaton Video-57P Graphics and Motion Video Accelerator, one of new Jaton MediaCircle products.
Jaton Video-57P uses advanced 64-bit TGUI9680TM GUI Accelerator with hardware video acceleration. It integrated with advanced PCI Plug and Play BIOS with full VESA BIOS Extensions and advanced 64/32-bit memory design. Its advanced VESA Display Data Channel (DDC) features allow monitors to transmit information (DDC1,DDC2B) about their capabilities, and receive configuration information from the host graphics board(DDC2 monitor only). The Deep Green PC feature offers four DPMS states control over the EPA Green Monitor and RAMDAC power down. The Video-57P video acceleration features allow up to 30 FPS motion video playback from CD-ROM without expensive video hardware. Bundled with many high performance device drivers and utilities and the popular Video CD player software, the Video-57P offers you the best Graphics performance and Motion Video playback capability in one card to make your desktop a Multi-Media station possible.
FEATURES
GUI acceleration: line draw, stroke line, BitBlt, area fill, trapezoidal fill, clipping and expand, Raster OPs, deep caches, Hardware Cursor
Video CODEC acceleration: Color Space Conversion, Hardware Horizontal and Vertical Scaling, Video Overlay
Up to 30 fps full screen full-motion video playback True-color Video Playback at 1024 x 768 Complies with the PCI Specification 2.0 : Zero Wait State Burst
Mode, Device Auto-configuration, and etc. VESA Super VGA BIOS Extension support Deep Green PC support with DPMS and DAC power down VESA DDC2 interfaces Graphics display resolutions from 1600 x 1200 with16 color to
640×480 with 16.7 million colors using one megabyte of DRAM and up to 1280×1024 with 256 colors and up to 800×600 with 16.7 Million colors using 2MB DRAM Supports vertical refresh rate of up to 85 Hertz Non-interlaced Software utilities and drivers are included.
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COMPATIBILITY
486 or Pentium PCI Local Bus systems Register compatible with EGA and VGA Non-interlaced or interlaced monitors Multi-Scanning and PS/2 monitors VESA DCC2 monitors
RESOLUTION AND COLOR SELECTION
640×480 16, 256, 32K, 64K, and 16M colors 800×600 16, 256, 32K, 64K, and 16M colors* 1024×768 16, 256 colors 1280xl024 16, 256* colors non-interlaced 1600×1200 16, 256* colors interlaced *This feature requires 2 megabytes of display memory.

EXTENDED TEXT DISPLAY
80 column text modes in 25, 30, 43, and 60 rows 132 column text modes in 25, 30, 43 and 60 rows
SOFTWARE DRIVERS AND UTILITIES

DRIVERS
MS Windows/WFW 3.1x Windows 95 Windows NT 3.1/3.5x Windows 3.1/95 DCI Drivers OS/2 Warp MS Word 5.0/5.5 WordPerfect 5/5.1/6.0 WordStar

AutoCAD Releases 11, 12, and 13
3D Studio Quattro Pro GEM Desktop Ventura
Symphony 1.x Lotus 123 R2.x

UTILITIES
SVM.EXE SMONITOR.EXE

TELLSET.EXE TMONITOR.EXE

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MOTION VIDEO PLAYBACK

MINIMUM HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
The following components are minimum requirements for a consumer system to play 15fps 320×240 video in software. To achieve full screen and smooth video playback, a fast Pentium CPU with 16MB RAM and Quad Speed CD-ROM Drive is recommended.

CPU:

486DX2 66 MHz

RAM:

8 MB

BUS:

PCI

CD-ROM: 300KB/Sec.; 400ms; Mode 2; Red Book audio playback

Audio:

16-bit, 44.1KHz

Video Acceleration: color conversion, scaling, overlay

MINIMUM SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS Operating System: Windows 3.1x, or Windows 95 Software Drivers: DCI or DirectDraw Drivers Software decoder: MS Video for Windows V1.1d for .AVI
MPEG Player for Video CD(MPEG-1, CD-I)

CHECK LIST
In addition to this manual, you should have the following:
Graphics and Motion Video Accelerator Board Software and Documentation CD-ROM If any of these items are missing or damaged, please contact your dealer.

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Take this time to record the following information:

Dealer:__________________________________________
Date of Purchase: ________________________________
Invoice Number:__________________________________
Dealer’s Phone: __________________________________ IMPORTANT: Keep all packaging materials that accompany your adapter in the event you need to return the product.
TECHNICAL SUPPORT

TEL: FAX:

(408)942-9888 (408)942-7788

BBS:

(408)263-8529 (9600 baud, 8N1)

Mail :

MediaCircle Division Jaton Corporation 556 S. Milpitas Blvd. Milpitas, CA95035

In the event you have a technical problem regarding this product, please read Troubleshooting section of this manual and the README files in the driver disks. Updated drivers are available through BBS. Have following information handy when you contact technical support:

Name of the product. Software Driver and Version. System Information, such as, CPU speed, BIOS version, Monitor
Specification, etc. Description of the problems including any error messages.
SOFTWARE UPGRADE
Updated software drivers and utilities are available free of charge through Jaton BBS: (408)-263-8529 (9600baud 8-N-1).

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THE VIDEO-57P HARDWARE

CHAPTER 2 THE VIDEO-57P HARDWARE
OVERVIEW
This section contains information concerning the installation of the Graphics and Video Accelerator board. Please take a few seconds to read through it before installation.
TOOLS NEEDED FOR INSTALLATION
A proper screwdriver is needed for installation of VIDEO-57P.
JUMPER SETTINGS
The VIDEO-57P is 100% compatible with the Intel PCI Automatic Configuration registers. However, there are two jumpers on the board for setting up display memory speed. They should be left factory default.

J1 Close Open Close Open

J2 Close Close Open Open

Memory Speed 80ns 70ns 60ns n/a

MEMORY / RESOLUTION
Graphics capabilities are increased incrementally with enhanced memory configurations. The following table shows the maximum colors can be displayed simultaneously under maximum resolutions available with one or two Mega Bytes of display memory. Please refer to Appendix C for more display mode information and Appendix A for memory upgrade information.

Maximum Color / Resolution / Memory Table

Resolution/Color * 1MB RAM
640×480 24bit True-Color 800×600 16bit Hi-Color
1024×768 256 Color 1280×1024 16 Color 1600×1200 16 Color

Resolution/Color * 2MB RAM
640×480 32bit True-Color 800×600 24bit True-Color 1024×768 16bit Hi-Color
1280×1024 256 Color 1600×1200 16 Color

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INSTALLATION PROCEDURES
The following steps are intended for upgrading your VGA card. You may need to consult the user manuals for your computer and any other devices attached to it. For the first time assembly of new PC you may find not all of following steps are necessary.
1. Power OFF your computer system and any devices (printer, display, modem, etc.) you may have attached to your computer.
2. If you have many cables attached to your PC, make sure the cables and connectors are labeled before disconnecting them.
3. Disconnect all cables from the rear of your computer. 4. Remove the cover from the computer. And remove or disable
your existing VGA card. 5. Install your VIDEO-57P board into any unused PCI slot. Gently
but firmly push the board into the slot you choose. 6. Attach the board to the frame. Make sure there are no loosing
screws in your PC and replace the computer system cover. 7. Reconnect all cables to the computer. If necessary, refer to the
instructions supplied with your display monitor, printer or other equipment. You have now completed the installation of your new VIDEO-57P board on your system.
The VIDEO-57P board is provided with a 15 pin analog connector. It intended to connect with an analog monitor or compatible device. For detailed pin-out information, please refer to Appendix B Pin-out
IMPORTANT The VIDEO-57P board uses the same 15-pin (DB15) cable available from monitor manufacturers to interface with the IBM PS/2 computers. Using an incorrect cable may result in damage to the monitor and/or adapter.
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CHAPTER 3 VIDEO

VIDEO ACCELERATION FUNCTIONS
Normally to display video in a window without hardware video acceleration, the video information must go through the CPU for decompression, then the CPU must scale the image, do the necessary color conversions, and manage putting the information on to the screen by sending the video overlay information to the graphics display. On-screen information, i.e. areas covered by the video overlay, must be stored in a separate memory area either in off-screen video memory or in main system memory, which causes delays when restoring the original image to the screen. The illustration below graphically depicts the amount of work that must be done by the CPU.

Video Data Decompressi

Transfer

CPU Tasks
Scaling

Color Space Conversion

Overlay

TGUI 9660
Graphics Display

In contrast, the TGUI9680 video overlay functions, when called by the proper driver such as Jaton’s DCI driver in Windows 3.1, allow the video image to be mixed with on-screen graphics data without trading the graphics data out of its original area in display memory. These functions also perform color conversion and scaling without the intervention of the CPU, as depicted below.

CPU Tasks

TGUI9680

Video Data Transfer

Decompression

Scaling

Color Space Conversion

Overlay

Graphics Display

The end result is that not only is video playback more watchable, but also the CPU is free for other tasks.

VIDEO OVERLAY
The TGUI9680 overlay function allows a video image to be placed on screen simultaneously with graphics data without removing the graphics data from memory. This results in seamless transitions from graphics to video so that when the video functions obscure graphics data, the graphics data is still in its original location, meaning that restoring the graphics data is instantaneous

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Video Graphics Display

COLOR SPACE CONVERSION
Color Space Conversion means that the YUV input to the TGUI9680 is automatically converted to true color for display in the video window without the intervention of the CPU.

YUV

Color Space Conversion

(RGB)
Graphics Display

VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL SCALING
Scaling is essentially the process of taking video data and fitting it to the desired on-screen area. This allows relatively compact data which is easily transported and stored to be displayed full-screen with high picture quality. By doing scaling independently of the CPU, the larger picture comes free of any penalties on applications performance. The TGUI9680 offers any size of vertical and horizontal scaling from miniature live display icons to full-screen display. The TGUI9680 scaling algorithm minimizes the loss of image quality in full-screen zoom out.

Video Graphics Display

Video
Graphics Display

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CD FORMATS
There are many “standards” of compact discs. The following table list some of those CD formats related to digital video.

CD-ROM CD-i Video CD

“original” CD-ROM format, as defined by ISO 9660 and the Yellow Book Compact Disc Interactive or Green Book. Proprietary format from Philip for use in their CD-i players MPEG-1 for digital video also known as White Book

SOFTWARE CODEC
Video information contained in a CD often compressed using MPEG, Motion JPEG, or other CODEC (Compression Decompression). You may use special CODEC hardware or use CPU and Software CODEC such as MPEG, Motion JPEG, Indeo, CinePak, MS Video, QuickTime to playback the compressed digital video.

VIDEO PLAYBACK SOFTWARE
Most CD-ROM title comes with a run time version of the digital video playback software such as MS Video for Windows, QuickTime for Windows and etc. To playback Video CD and CD-i, a MPEG software decoder is needed.
MS VIDEO FOR WINDOWS
Microsoft Video playback on the VIDEO-57P can be achieved with MS Video for Windows 1.1e Runtime or later. The display quality and playback performance can be enhanced by installing the Display Control Interface (DCI) driver since this driver utilizes the Accelerated Video Engine of the TGUI9680 chip. This runtime version is not needed for Windows 95.
Windows DCI driver must be installed and activated before installing Microsoft’s Video for Windows 1.1e Runtime to Windows 3.1x. Refer to the section for Windows 3.1x display driver installation for details.
The following procedure assumes the use of a mouse, Hard Disk Drive C: and CD-ROM Drive X:.

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VIDEO FOR WINDOWS INSTALLATION 1. CONFIRM that MS Windows 3.1x is up and running properly using the Jaton Video-57P DCI display driver. 2. In Windows, SELECT the MAIN group in Program Manager. 3. CLICK on FILE or PRESS ALT + F . 4. CLICK on RUN or PRESS R to select command line. 5. INSERT your VIDEO-57P CD-ROM into drive X:. TYPE “X:VFW1_1ESETUP” and then PRESS ENTER. 6. CLICK on INSTALL on the installation menu to start the installation of “Video for Windows”. 7. A screen for “Video for Windows 1.1e Runtime” will now appear (see Figure 9).
Figure 9 8. CLICK on the “Continue” button (see Figure 10) in the Microsoft
Video for Windows Setup dialog box to start installation Video for Windows software.
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Figure 10 9. Once all of the files have been installed, CLICK on the “Restart
Now” button for the changes to take effect (see Figure 11).
Figure 11
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10. When Windows is restarted, GO into the “Accessories” program group to run “Media Player”. Jaton’s DCI driver is now activated and the line “Video for Windows” will now appear under the “Device” option. SELECT “Video for Windows” to run any files with AVI extension.
INSTALLATION VERIFICATION If the desired performance is not achieved after the Video Application diskette is installed, the following procedure verifies if Jaton’s DCI driver is installed correctly. 1. OPEN your SYSTEM.INI file under C:WINDOWS with any
text editor. 2. LOOK under the section [ drivers ]. 3. LOOK behind the line of “DCI=”. 4. If Jatont’s DCI driver is installed properly, the word
“TDCI” should appear behind “DCI=”.
MPEG PLAYER
The VIDEO-57P is bundled with MPEG Player Software. The MPEG Player can play Karaoke CD, Video CD (MPEG-1, CD-i), and other MPEG files.
The MPEG software decoders are designed to work on fast 486 or Pentium CPU and require video acceleration chips like the TGUI9680 to function properly. The new Windows DCI (Display Control Interface) driver is required to run MPEG Player properly under Windows 3.1x. For Windows 95, DirectDraw driver is needed. When all three technologies work together and depending on the speed of the CPU, up to 30 frames per second full-motion video can be experienced. MPEG software decoders in conjunction with the Video-57P are much more cost-effective than currently available MPEG hardware boards.
GETTING STARTED Before installing the MPEG Player, make sure the following hardware and software is installed and working:
VIDEO-57P Graphics and Video Accelerator Board
VIDEO-57P Software and Documentation CD-ROM
IBM PC 486/Pentium or compatible computer with 8MB RAM
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Microsoft Windows v3.1x with DCI driver loaded or Windows 95 with DirectDraw driver installed;
a hard disk drive with at least 3MB of free space;
a double speed or faster CD-ROM drive;
a 16-bit sound card is optional.
INSTALLING THE MPEG PLAYER FOR WINDOWS 3.1X 1. TURN ON your computer and start Windows. 2. INSERT the VIDEO-57P CD into your CD-ROM drive. 3. OPEN the Windows 3.1x Program Manager and choose the
“Run” command from the “File” menu. 4. TYPE “X:MPEG_31SETUP” (substitute the drive letter of
your CD-ROM drive letter for “X”, if necessary), and click the “OK” button; the MPEG Player setup program will start. 5. Follow the setup program’s on-screen instructions.
TALLING THE MPEG PLAYER FOR WINDOWS 95 1. TURN ON your computer and start Windows. 2. INSERT the VIDEO-57P CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive. 3. CLICK ON the Windows 95 “Start” and “Run” button. 4. TYPE “X:MPEG_95SETUP” (substitute the drive letter of
your CD-ROM drive letter for “X”, if necessary), and click the “OK” button; the MPEG Player setup program will start. 5. Follow the setup program’s on-screen instructions.
VIDEO PLAYBACK TROUBLESHOOTING
UNREADABLE MPEG FILES The MPEG Player can play any MPEG file that conforms to the MPEG-1 standard. Some MPEG files do not conform to this standard; e.g., they may have undergone data encryption that renders them readable only by the application that performed the encryption; or they may contain nonstandard data. If you attempt to play such an MPEG file with the MPEG Player, an error message appears indicating that the file is unreadable.
Since most CD-ROM titles contain MS Video have the MS Video for Windows run time version, it may cause problem if the version of the MS
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Video for Windows from your CD-ROM title is older than 1.1d. If you have the older version VFW installed on Windows 3.1x, reinstall the current version from this CD.
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Chapter 4 Software
CHAPTER 4 THE VIDEO-57P SOFTWARE
This document provides instructions on the installation of the software drivers supplied with the graphics accelerator board. These software drivers offer performance and quality improvements over the standard graphics software drivers supplied with the computer system, and extend the graphics capability for selected applications by offering options such as increased screen size, color depth and monitor refresh rates, as well as improving overall graphic performance.
SOFTWARE UTILITIES INSTALLATION
INSTALLATION PROCEDURES The Utility Installation program is used to install and retrieve instructions on:
a) Utility programs b) Non-Windows applications display drivers. The Utility installation program is run by executing the following steps: 1. INSERT the VIDEO-57P CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive “X:”. 2. Change Directory to X:DOS_APPS 3. TYPE in “README” at the CD-ROM drive prompt. 4. A numbered list of destination drives will be displayed on the screen. SELECT the destination drive by TYPING in the corresponding number; e.g., to select drive C, type in “1” (see Figure 12).
Figure 12
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Files and subdirectories will be expanded into the newly

created directory VGAUTIL. A new menu will then be

displayed on the screen, showing a list of on-line instructions

(see Figure 13).

Figure 13 6. Selecting A will display the contents of all drivers in the list. 7. Selecting B will display instructions on the available utility
programs. 8. Selecting C will display instructions on how to install display
drivers for non-Windows applications.
UTILITIES SUMMARY SVM.EXE SVM is a menu-driven program designed to select and test all video modes available to the adapter.
How To Use SVM The SVM program can be executed in either of two ways: by calling up the menu and selecting from the menu choices, or by entering the desired mode directly with a specific command line.
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How To Use SVM From The Menu 1. SWITCH directory to “C:VGAUTIL” where C: is the drive
where the Utility software files have been copied. 2. TYPE SVM to call up the menu (see Figure 14).
Figure 14 The top bar shows the available color depths. This is traversed through by use of the right/left arrow keys. The program provides all the different resolutions supported by the board under each color depth. The graphics adapter can be tested for each resolution/ mode by first high-lighting the selection (e.g. 1024×768-256 colors as shown in Figure 14) by use of the arrow keys, then pressing the F5 key. The graphics adapter can be run at a selected mode by first selecting the mode and then pressing ENTER. How to Use SVM From The Command Line The SVM program may be used to select a mode directly from the command line following two simple steps: 1. SWITCH directory to “C:VGAUTIL” where C: is the drive where the Utility and DOS utility files have been copied.
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2. TYPE in SVM [mode number] and PRESS ENTER. For example, to run the graphics adapter in mode 62H, the command with mode number for item 2 above would be:
SVM 62 <ENTER>

SMONITOR
SMONITOR is designed to set the monitor group and the monitor type: Usage: SMONITOR <GROUP|OPTION>
Set Monitor Group
The graphics extended modes set by the graphics card’s BIOS are sorted into six groups categorized by the monitor’s refresh rate. The group settings are listed below:

Resolution 640X400 640×480 800×600 1024×768 1280×1024 1600×1200

Group

70 70 70 70 70 70 70 70 60 72 75 85 85 85 85 85 XX 60 72 75 85 85 85 85 XX 87i 60 70 75 85 90 95 XX XX 87i 87i 60 60 75 75 XX XX XX XX 96i 96i 96i 96i

OPTIONS:
C SET COLOR MONITOR
M SET MONOCHROME MONITOR
The default group number is 0. If you want to set the monitor group, TYPE “SMONITOR GROUP”, where GROUP is one of the group numbers listed above.
Set Monitor Color
Switches between color and monochrome display. Some monitors (most notably Samsung monitors manufactured before 2/8/91) do not adhere to the standard IBM pinout definitions, which causes the VGA card to boot up in monochrome instead of color. This utility may be used to correct the problem. To set the monitor as color, TYPE “SMONITOR C”; or, TYPE “SMONITOR M” to set monochrome monitor.

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TMONITOR The TMONITOR program allows the adjustment of video display parameters so that images are optimally sized and centered on the screen. Adjustable parameters include: Horizontal size and position. Vertical size and position. Vertical pixel frequency (refresh rate). The program is started from the DOS prompt by typing in TMONITOR from the C:VGAUTIL directory. The first section of the program is used to define a given name for the adjustments to be made (see Figure 15).
Figure 15 1. PRESS ENTER to add a new monitor entry; then TYPE in
the name of the manufacturer, and then again PRESS ENTER. The program will allow any name to be typed in. 2. TYPE in the associated comments for the monitor settings and PRESS ENTER. 3. A mode table will be displayed, presenting all the adjustable modes as shown in Figure 16. 4. This table is traversed through the use of the up/down arrow keys. The mode highlighted is the selected mode for adjustment. 5. SELECT the mode to be adjusted and PRESS ENTER. Figure 16 shows mode “62 non-interlaced” selected.
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Figure 16 6. SELECT the desired pixel refresh rate and PRESS ENTER twice.
Figure 17 7. The screen alignment test pattern will than be displayed.
The up/down arrow keys are used to adjust the vertical positioning of the screen. The Left/Right arrow keys are used for horizontal alignment of the screen. The Home/End keys are used for horizontal screen sizing and the Page Up/Down keys are used for vertical screen sizing. Once the screen position and size is adjusted, PRESS ENTER, and then PRESS the ESC key. 8. To save the settings, TYPE “Y” and PRESS ENTER. The program will then modify the CONFIG.SYS file. 9. At this point, PRESS ESC and REBOOT the system to enable the parameter changes.
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NOTE: If you exceed the screen adjustment positions, PRESS the ESC key to restart from Step 6.
DOS APPLICATIONS
After selecting Drivers from the Main Menu, you will be presented with a list of possible drivers to install. Select the desired driver you wish to install. You will be presented with a version list for the given application. Choose the appropriate version of the application. Once you have selected the desired driver, the installation program will either provide you with further instructions, or guide you through the installation. The following pages give details for installing each available driver

LOTUS 1-2-3, VERSIONS 2.1 AND 2.2
1. COPY the Lotus 1-2-3 driver into your Lotus directory by running SET123 from the DOS_APPS directory. For example, if the CD is in the X: drive and Lotus 1-2-3 is installed in the C: drive with directory name LOTUS, TYPE “X:DOS_APPSSET123 C:LOTUS”.
2. CHANGE to the LOTUS 1-2-3 directory and TYPE “LOTUS” to open the main menu.
3. SELECT INSTALL from the main menu. 4. SELECT ADVANCED OPTIONS from the Install menu. 5. SELECT ADD NEW DRIVER TO LIBRARY from the
Advanced Options menu. 6. SELECT “MODIFY CURRENT DRIVER SET” from the
menu. 7. SELECT either text or graphics display. For the text mode,
CHOOSE one of the following command lines to indicate the number of rows for your display.

TVGA 132×25 Version x.x TVGA 132×30 Version x.x TVGA 132×43 Version x.x TVGA 132×60 Version x.x

TVGA 80×30 Version x.x TVGA 80×43 Version x.x TVGA 80×60 Version x.x

EXAMPLE: Enter TVGA 132×25 Version 1.0 for 132 column by 25 row display. The following row values may be used: 25, 30, 43, or 60.

For graphics mode, SELECT the following command line: TVGA 640×480 for Release 2.X

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8. RETURN to the Lotus 1-2-3 main menu and CHOOSE “SAVE CHANGE” to record the changes, then EXIT the Lotus 1-2-3 installation program.
9. Installation is complete for Lotus 1-2-3. To reconfigure for a different resolution (i.e. 132×25 to 132×30 in text mode), follow steps 3 through 8, then run Lotus 1-2-3 as usual.

SYMPHONY 2.X
1. COPY the Symphony driver to the SYMPHONY directory by running the SETSYMPH utility found in the X:DOS_APPS directory. For example, if the driver/utility is installed in the D: drive and the Symphony application is installed in the C: drive with a directory name SYMPHONY, TYPE “D: TVGAUTILSETSYMPH C:SYMPHONY”.
2. The remaining steps need to be completed inside Symphony. Note them down or reference steps 4 through 9.
3. CHANGE to the Symphony 2.X directory and TYPE “SYMPHONY” to open the main menu.
4. SELECT INSTALL from the main menu. 5. SELECT ADVANCED OPTIONS from the Install menu. 6. SELECT ADD NEW DRIVER TO LIBRARY from Advanced
Options menu. 7. SELECT MODIFY CURRENT DRIVER SET from the menu. 8. SELECT either text or graphics display. For the text mode,
CHOOSE one of the following command lines to indicate the number of rows for your display:

TVGA 132×25 Version x.x TVGA 132×30 Version x.x TVGA 132×43 Version x.x TVGA 132×60 Version x.x

TVGA 80×30 Version x.x TVGA 80×43 Version x.x TVGA 80×60 Version x.x

EXAMPLE: Enter TVGA 132×25 Version 1.0 for 132 column by 25-row display. The following row values may be used: 25, 30, 43, or 60.

For graphics mode, SELECT the following command line: TVGA 64Ox480 for Release 2.X
9. RETURN to the Symphony main menu and CHOOSE “Save Changes” to record the changes, then EXIT the Symphony installation program.

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10. Installation is complete for Symphony. To reconfigure for a different resolution (i.e. 132×25 to 132×30 in text mode), follow Steps 4 through 9, then run Symphony as usual.
GEM DESKTOP 3.XX 1. Follow the prompts to prepare a GEM/3 driver diskette. The
installation program will copy driver files to the newly formatted diskette in drive A:. 2. The remaining steps need to be completed in side GEM. They are listed in a text window. Note them down or reference steps 3 through 7. 3. INSERT original GEM/3 system Master Disk and RUN “GEMSETUP”. 4. SELECT, in order, “Change Existing Configuration”, “Continue”, “Change Your Current Setup”, and then the listed graphics and card display. 5. When prompted for a new graphics card and display, SELECT OTHER PACK and INSERT the newly prepared GEM/3 driver diskette in drive A:. 6. SELECT a display driver. 7. CONTINUE with the rest of the GEMSETUP program. Please consult your GEM manual for more information on the GEMSETUP program.
VENTURA PUBLISHER 1. FOLLOW prompts to prepare a Ventura driver diskette. The
installation program will copy driver files to the newly formatted diskette in drive A:. 2. ENTER the location of the Ventura directory on the hard disk when prompted (e.g. C:VP). ENTER the path and then SELECTOK. 3. INDICATE whether or not the Ventura Publisher Professional Extension is being used. 4. SELECT one of the display modes listed. 5. INDICATE the type of mouse being used and, if necessary, to which I/O port (i.e. COM1, COM2, etc.) the mouse is connected. 6. CONFIRM choices to complete the installation.
To reconfigure for a different display mode, repeat this entire installation procedure.
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WORDPERFECT 5.1
TO INSTALL THE TEXT MODE DRIVERS
1. COPY the driver files from X:DOS_APPSWP51 directory on your CD-ROM drive into your WordPerfect 5.1 directory; e.g., C:WP51). TYPE: “Copy X:DOS_APPSUF51TVGATEXT.VRS C:VP51”. The display drivers (TVGATEXT.VRS) will be copied automatically to the WordPerfect directory.
2. The remaining steps need to be completed inside WordPerfect. They are listed in a text window. Note them or reference steps 3 through 5.
3. RUN WordPerfect 5.1 by TYPING “WP” at the WordPerfect 5.1 program directory.
4. PRESS Shift-Fl to call up the Setup Menu. PRESS “2” to select Display and then “3” to select Text Screen Type.
5. CHOOSE one of the extended text drivers. The available drivers are 80×30, 80×43, 80×60, l32x30, 132×43, 132×60.
6. Driver installation is complete for WordPerfect. To reconfigure for a different resolution, e.g. 132×25 to 132×30 in text mode, repeat steps 4 and 5.
TO INSTALL EXTENDED GRAPHICS MODE DRIVERS
1. COPY the driver files from X:DOS_APPSWP51 directory on the hard disk drive into the WordPerfect 5.1 directory; e.g., C:WP51. If WordPerfect 5.1 is installed in drive C: and the driverutility is installed in driver D:, TYPE:
“Copy X:DOS_APPSWP51TVGA16.VRS C:WP51”. The display drivers (TVGA16.VRS) will be automatically copied to the WordPerfect directory. 2. The remaining steps need to be completed in WordPerfect. They are listed in a text window. Note them or reference steps 3 through 5. 3. RUN WordPerfect 5.1 by TYPING “WP” at the WordPerfect 5.1 program directory. 4. PRESS the Shift-Fl to call up the Setup Menu. PRESS “2” to select Display and the “2” to select Graphics Screen Type. 5. CHOOSE one of the Extended Graphic drivers. The available drivers are 800×600-16 colors, 1024×768-16 colors, and 768xl024-16 colors.
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6. Driver installation is complete for WordPerfect. To reconfigure for a different resolution, (i.e. 800×600), repeat steps 4 and 5.
WORDPERFECT 6.0
TO INSTALL THE TEXT MODE DRIVERS 1. COPY the driver file from X:DOS_APPSWP60 directory on
the hard drive into the WordPerfect 6.0 directory (e.g. WP6.0). For example, if WordPerfect 6.0 application is installed in drive C: and the driverutility program is installed in drive D:, TYPE: “Copy X:DOS_APPSWP60TVGA6TXT.VRS C: WP60”.
2. To run WordPerfect 6.0 from the directory, TYPE “WP”. 3. ENSURE WordPerfect 6.0 Text Mode is selected. There
should be a check mark or an asterisk in front of “Text Mode” under the View pull-down menu. 4. SELECT SETUP under the File pull-down menu, and CHOOSE DISPLAY. SELECT “2. TEXT MODE SCREEN TYPE/COLORS”, and then SELECT SCREEN TYPE. To install the Trident driver, SELECT TRIDENT VGA. SELECT the appropriate screen resolution.
TO INSTALL EXTENDED GRAPHICS MODE DRIVERS
WordPerfect 6.0 for DOS allows selecting either Text Mode or Graphic Mode Interface. For graphic mode, install the VESA driver and select a resolution from 640×480 to 1024×768. 1. SELECT the VESA driver that is included in the WordPerfect
6.0 program. 2. ENSURE the VESA driver from WP6.0 installation program
is selected and installed. BOOT-UP the WordPerfect 6.0 program, and SELECT “Graphic Mode” from the View pull-down menu. 3. SELECT SETUP from the File pull-down menu. SELECT DISPLAY, and CHOOSE “1” to select the different graphic mode driver. CHOOSE “1” for Screen Type. HIGHLIGHT VESA VBE, and SELECT the desired resolution. FOLLOW the instructions on the screen to complete installation.
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MS WORD 5.0

1. COPY the MS Word driver from the X:DOS_APPSWord directory on the hard drive into the MS Word 5.0 directory (e.g. Word50). For example, if MS Word 5.0 is installed in drive C: and the Driver/Utility is installed in drive D:, TYPE: “Copy X:DOS_APPSWORDSCREEN.VID C:WORD50”. The display drivers (SCREEN.VID) will be automatically copied to the Word directory.

2. The remaining steps need to be completed inside MS Word.

They are listed in a text window. Note them or reference

steps 3 through 5.

3. RUN MS Word 5.0 by typing “WORD” at the prompt in the

MS Word 5.0 directory.

4. PRESS ESC to enter a command.

PRESS “O” to enter an Option Command.

5. SELECT DISPLAY MODE, then PRESS F1 to list the display

modes available. CHOOSE one of the following lines to

indicate the number of rows for the display:

(1) Text, 25 lines, 16 color (2) Text, 43 lines, 16 color (3) Text, 50 lines, 16 color (4) Text, 60 lines, 16 color

(5) Text, 25 lines, 16 color1 (6) Text, 30 lines, 16 color1 (7) Text, 43 lines, 16 color1 (8) Text, 60 lines, 16 color1

Note 1: Lines 5 through 8 are for 132 column modes. Mouse support is not available for 132 column modes.
6. Driver installation for MS Word is complete. To reconfigure for a different resolution, i.e. 132×25, repeat steps 4 and 5.

MS WORD 5.5
1. CHANGE the directory to X:DOS_APPSWord55. 2. TYPE “SETUP” to run the setup program.
FOLLOW the instructions on the screen to complete the driver installation.

AUTOCAD TURBODLD CLASSIC DRIVER

TurboDLD Classic Driver by Panacea for Trident is a combined display

interface and rendering driver. It supports DOS versions of AutoCAD 10/386,

11/386, 12/386 and 13/386. It offers the following resolutions for the drawing

editor :

640×480

256 colors

800×600

256 colors

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1024×768 1280×1024 1600×1200
640×480 800×600 1024×768 640×480 800×600

256 colors 256 colors (2MB video RAM required) 256 colors (4MB video RAM required) 65K colors 65K colors 65K colors (2MB video RAM required) 16M colors 16M colors (2MB video RAM required)

It also offers the following resolutions for rendering:

640×480 800×600 1024×768 1280×1024 1600×1200 640×480 800×600 1024×768 640×480 800×600

256 colors 256 colors 256 colors 256 colors (2MB video RAM required) 256 colors (4MB video RAM required) 65K colors 65K colors 65K colors (2MB video RAM required) 16M colors 16M colors (2MB video RAM required)

IMPORTANT: Ensure that AutoCAD is already installed with the IBM Standard VGA driver.
AUTOCAD/386 RELEASE 10 AND 11
1. CHANGE the directory to C:VGAUTILACAD. TYPE “INSTALL”, PRESS the ENTER key. FOLLOW the installation steps on the screen. The TurboDLD Classic Driver and the other files will be copied to the proper ACAD working subdirectory.
2. RUN DLD386’s FASTCAD.BAT, or COPY the commands from the file into the AUTOEXEC.BAT file before running AutoCAD. FASTCAD.BAT sets the environment variables including DLDCFG, DSPADI, RDPADI and RCPADI.
3. START AutoCAD/386 and SELECT CONFIGURE AUTOCAD from the Main Menu.
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5. SELECT ADI P386 v4.0/4.1 display. This will call up TurboDLD’s configuration menu, which should be used to select the desired graphics board, resolution.
6. SELECT the graphics area background color, text color (for the menu status line and command prompt areas of the screen), text background color, border color, and dialog box/button outline color. To select the default colors, PRESS ENTER at each prompt. To select a different color, ENTER the desired color number at the given prompt.
AUTOCAD/386 RELEASE 12 AND 13
Display Driver Installation Procedure
1. CHANGE the directory to C:VGAUTILACAD. 2. TYPE “INSTALL” and PRESS the ENTER key. 3. FOLLOW the installation steps on the screen. The TurboDLD Classic Driver and the other files will be copied to the proper ACAD working subdirectory.
Editor Installation Procedure
The display driver for the drawing editor and rendering, is installed by following these steps: 1. RUN the AutoCAD Drawing Editor screen. 2. SELECT CONFIGURE in the File pull-down menu.
AutoCAD will then switch to a text screen. 3. PRESS any key to continue after reading the “Welcome to
TurboDLD!” file. 4. SELECT “Select Graphics Board/Resolution” in the
TurboDLD Classic V2.10 for the Trident Main Menu. 5. FOLLOW the menu to select the desired resolution. 6. SAVE the selection, and
EXIT from TurboDLD’s configuration. 7. ENTER “0” to return to the Drawing Editor screen. 8. ANSWER “Y” to save configuration changes.
Rendering Installation Procedure
1. ENSURE that Rendering for AutoCAD Rev 12 is already installed.
2. SELECT PREFERENCES in the Render pull-down menu from the Drawing Editor screen.
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3. If Rendering has been previously configured, SELECT RECONFIGURE in the Rendering Preferences dialog box. Otherwise, the program automatically will switch directly to a text screen.
4. SELECT “2” to configure the rendering driver. 5. SELECT “AUTOCAD’S CONFIGURED P386 ADI
COMBINED DISPLAY/RENDERING DRIVER.” 6. SELECT the desired resolution for rendering. 7. SELECT the desired rendering view 8. ENTER “0” to return to the Drawing Editor screen. 9. ANSWER “Y” to save configuration changes.
CLICK OK to close the Rendering Preferences dialog box
QUATTRO PRO 2.X FOR DOS 1. COPY the Quattro Pro driver from the X:DOS_APPSPRO
directory on the hard drive into the QPRO 2.X for DOS directory. For example, if your Quattro Pro 2.X is installed in drive C: and the Driver/Utility is installed in drive D:, TYPE: “Copy X:DOS_APPSQFROVIDEO.RSC C:QPRO”. The display drivers (VIDEO.RSC) will be automatically copied to the Quattro Pro directory 2. The remaining steps need to be completed inside Quattro Pro. They are listed in a text window. Note them or reference steps 3 through 5. 3. RUN Q.EXE by entering “Y” in response to the prompt. The Driver/Utility Installation program will then exit to Quattro Pro. 4. PRESS “O” to select the Options menu, and “D” to select Display Mode. 5. CHOOSE an extended text mode.
The graphic driver installation for Quattro Pro is complete. To reconfigure for a different resolution, i.e. 800×600, repeat steps 4 and 5.
MICROSOFT WINDOWS 3.1
DISPLAY DRIVER INSTALLATION The graphic installation program (INSTALL) supports a simple six-step installation procedure for the Windows 3.1 DCI display driver setup program, the power management program and the UNinstall program.
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To use INSTALL, follow the 6 steps below: 1. ENSURE that MS Windows 3.1 is up and running properly, using
the standard VGA driver. 2. SELECT the MAIN group in Program Manager. 3. CLICK on FILE or press ALT + F (see Figure 1)
Figure 1. 4. CLICK on RUN or PRESS R to select command line. 5. TYPE in “X:WIN_31INSTALL” (if the display driver disk is in the
floppy drive then TYPE in “A:INSTALL”) and then PRESS ENTER (see Figure 2).
Figure 2. 6. A menu will appear, presenting a choice of Express or
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Express installation is quick and decision free. Display drivers will be copied into the JATON.XGI directory and Utility files will be copied into the JATON.UTL directory. Once all files are copied, a program group called DISPLAY DRIVER AND UTILITIES will be created. Custom installation allows control over file storage and in what program group the icons are placed. The first dialog box that appears shows the default directory to which the display drivers will be copied. To change the directory name select the default name, delete it and then enter the desired directory name. Once the desired directory name is selected, continue the installation procedure by selecting CONTINUE, or by pressing ENTER. The next dialog box displays a summary of where files are stored. Select CONTINUE to copy the drivers and utilities files. When all files are copied, the program will present a choice of program groups where the icons will be created. Create a new group to place the utility icons or select from pre-existing groups (e.g. main, applications, accessories etc.). When all necessary files are copied and a group name is selected, the INSTALL program will create three icons: a. Screen Control (Used to configure display drivers).
b. DPMS (Used for power management configurations).
c. UNinstall (Used to delete the installed Video-57P display drivers).

NOTE:

Different “display driver set” versions cannot be installed to the same directory name.

“Display driver sets” of the same version number ( e.g. UX6.x ) will replace the existing one.
SCREEN CONTROL
The Screen Control panel contains controls for setting screen resolution, color depth, font size, refresh rates. Not all combinations of screen resolution, color depth, font size and refresh rate are attainable. Color depths of 16, 256, 64K, or 16.7M colors can be selected by clicking next to the desired option. Color depth determines the number of colors that may be simultaneously displayed on the screen. The selected color depth determines the possible resolutions. Screen resolutions of 640×480, 800×600, 1024×768, 1280×1024 or 1600×1200 can be selected by clicking next to the available options. The virtual screen size is automatically adjusted to be at least as large as the selected screen resolution. Available refresh rates are dependent on the selected color depth and resolution. The “Back to Default” option is used to reset the refresh rate to the factory default value in case your monitor does not support a high refresh rate.
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CONFIGURING THE DISPLAY DRIVER
Select the color depth first. If the current driver does not support the selected color depth, then Windows will have to be restarted.
Select the resolution. Select the font size (if available as an option). Select the refresh rate. Click on OK. If the current driver does not support the selected
configuration, Windows will have to be restarted.

NOTE:

Hot Key Control Should be enabled before going into advanced setup. There is no virtual screen support for 16 colors.

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Figure 3 ADVANCED FEATURES (VIRTUAL SCREEN CONTROL) The advanced features of the program is accessed by pressing ALT + D or by clicking on the box marked Advanced. This action opens up an extension of the Main Panel that presents the following features: 1. Hot Key selection. Enabling this function allows setting up
predefined key strokes achieve specific virtual screen related actions. 2. Turn On virtual screen. This function allows the use of the
predefined virtual screen sizes. The predefined virtual screen sizes are selected by clicking next to available options. The size of the available predefined virtual screen is dependent on the selected color depth and resolution. 3. Customize Virtual screen area. Selecting this feature opens up a new screen titled Virtual Screen Advanced Settings. The features presented through this screen are as follows: Standard display resolutions are 640×480, 800×600, 1024×768 or 1280×1024. The amount of display memory used depends on the selected resolution and color depth. For resolutions of 640×480, 800×600 and 1024×768, there is a substantial amount of display memory left unused. The Virtual Screen
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features takes advantage of this unused memory by “expanding” the display area into the off-screen area. Virtual Screen Control allows the user to make effective use of a display screen larger than the standard 640×480, 800×600 or 1024×768, and the standard resolution is the center of the screen. The user can “pan” around the larger Virtual Screen area by the use of a standard mouse or a set of “HOT KEYS.” For example, it is possible to select a resolution of 640×480 and set the Virtual Screen size to 800×600. Thus, the 640×480 screen sits at the center of a 800×600 matrix, and the user can “pan” through the entire 800×600 matrix in a 640×480 window (see Figure 4).

Panning allows traversing a larger screen through a smaller window.

VIRTUAL SCREEN AREA

ACTUAL DISPLAY AREA

Figure 4.
The advanced features provide functions to customize the virtual screen, as shown in Figure 5:

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Figure 5. Display Driver Advanced Settings FREEZE SCREEN The Freeze Screen option is used to disable the panning feature, giving the illusion of a frozen screen but keeping other virtual screen functions available. Hot key functions are available for this feature. LINEAR FRAME BUFFER ADDRESS The Linear Addressing driver will automatically detect the system’s memory size and sets the frame buffer to an unused area above the system memory (VL bus card only, not applicable here). The Linear Frame Buffer Address setting is useful in avoiding conflicts with Windows applications which use the same linear frame buffer address as the Display Driver. Addresses between 18 and 63 MB can be selected. If there is no conflict, the default setting is highly recommended. BORDER SPACE The Border Space option is used to set up a border (thickness measured in pixels) within the Displayable Area, which is used as a marker for panning the
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screen, i.e. when the cursor hits against this border, screen panning occurs (see Figure 6).
NOTE: Border space sets up a transparent border (black area) on the display area, that is used as a threshold to start panning the virtual screen. Figure 6.
PAN SET HOT KEY Hot keys can be set up to pan the virtual screen left, right, up and down. The feature has to be enabled first by clicking on the ENABLE box, before hot keys can be selected. Once all selections are made, click on OK or press ALT + O to exit the advanced setup. DPMS (DISPLAY POWER MANAGEMENT SIGNALING) The POWER MANAGEMENT program is designed for energy-saving monitors that conform to the VESA Display Power Management Signaling (DPMS) standard.
WARNING: THE USE OF THIS PROGRAM IS NOT RECOMMENDED FOR MONITORS THAT DO NOT SUPPORT THE VESA DPMS STANDARD. The program offers three power-down modes: 1. Standby (minimum power savings) 2. Suspend (substantial power savings) 3. Off state (maximum power savings)
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Figure 7.
The program monitors for mouse and/or keyboard activity. When activity is not detected for a specified delay period (controlled by the Delay Time parameter), the program signals the TGUI9680 to enter the selected powerdown modes. The Display Power Management program offers several options to customize the DPMS operation:
DELAY TIME
The delay time to enter each mode can be set by entering the value (in minutes) in the Delay Time parameters. Values can be entered by either clicking on the count-up or count-down button, or by clicking on the number, deleting it, and typing in the desired time in minutes (see Figure 8).

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ACTIVITY SELECT The Activity Select option selects which activity the program senses in order to restore the display to the monitor. For example, if both mouse and keyboard are selected, then either activity will re-establish the powered down signals.
PASSWORD OPTION The Password Option sets up a password to get back onto the screen. 1. A password is set up by first CLICKING on the box marked
PASSWORD PROTECTED or by PRESSING ALT + P (this is confirmed by the presence of an “X” in the box). 2. PRESS ALT + S or click on the box marked SET PASSWORD. 3. TYPE in the selected password (twice) and SELECT OK, or PRESS ENTER.
CLOCK Turning on the clock enables the digital count down display.
ALARM If the Alarm option is enabled, then the last 5 seconds of countdown to Stand by mode is synchronized with beeps from the PC speaker.
STARTUP ON/OFF This option installs the Display Power Management program onto the Windows Startup file, so that DPMS is active upon entering Windows.
DEFAULT The default button sets all parameters back to the factory default values.
TEST The test feature is used to give a demonstration of the DPMS power down function.
SAVE This feature is used to save all the current settings. Once all settings are selected, the program is activated by pressing ALT + O or by clicking on the box marked Turn On DPMS.
UNINSTALL DISPLAY DRIVER The UNinstall program enables the user to safely delete specific display drivers or an entire display driver set. To remove an entire Display Driver Set, complete the following steps:
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1. Using the arrow keys or mouse, SELECT the Display Driver Set that is to be removed (the set to be deleted should be high-lighted).
2. Once the desired Driver Set is selected, simply SELECT the Delete button or PRESS ENTER.
NOTE: The UNinstall program will not permit the deletion of a Display Driver set that is currently used.
To remove an individual driver from a Display Driver Set, complete the following steps: 1. SELECT the Display Driver Set . 2. Once the desired Driver Set is high lighted, CLICK on the Enter
button. This will call up a list of available display drivers. 3. SELECT the display driver to be deleted (it will be high lighted) . 4. CLICK on the DELETE button or PRESS ALT + D to delete
the selected display driver.

WINDOWS 95

DISPLAY DRIVER INSTALLATION
This Windows 95 DirectDraw Display driver provide faster system performance, ability to control your monitor refresh rate, DirectX support, MPEG Player with VIDEO-57P Video acceleration, and other features.

1 2

ENSURE that MS Windows 95 is up and running using the Trident SVGA driver that it has detected.
INSERT the Video-57P CD into the CD-ROM drive X:, after a moment, the CD with auto-run feature will present you with a welcome screen, SELECT “Display Driver” and proceed to the next step, otherwise, SELECT “Control Panel” from “My Computer”

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Figure 18
SELECT the “Display” icon and then SELECT the “Settings” page.

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4 SELECT the “Change Display Type” selection bar, and then SELECT the “Change” button next to Adapter Type.

Figure 20
On the “Select Device” page, SELECT the “Have Disk” button to install the Jaton display driver from the VIDEO-57P CD-ROM disc.

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After the “Have Disk” button is selected, an “Install From Disk” window will appear. SELECT the “Browse” button to browse the directory “X:WIN_95” of your CD-ROM drive.

Figure 22
Once the files OEMSETUP.INF appear under file name list. SELECT “OK” to return to the “Install From Disk” windows. Under the statement “Copy manufacturer’s files from”, the line X:WIN_95 should appear. SELECT “OK” to start copying the driver files.

Figure 23 8. After the files has been copied from the CD-ROM disc to the
hard drive, a “Select device” window will appear. Under
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Models, the line “Video-57P, linear accelerated for PCI Vx.xx.xx” will now be listed.
Figure 24 9. SELECT the “OK” button to close the “Select Device” window
and to select the “Color Palette” and “Desktop Area” of your choice under the Jaton Video-57P accelerated driver. Once the desired color palette (the number of colors) and desktop area (resolution) has been chosen, the Windows 95 system will be re-started using the Jaton accelerated driver.
MS WINDOWS NT 3.5
DISPLAY DRIVER INSTALLATION 1. RUN the Microsoft Windows NT display Setup program
located in the Control Panel of the Main group. 2. SELECT “Change Display Type…” button from the Display
Settings options. 3. SELECT “Change…” button from the Display Type options.
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4. SELECT “Other…” button from the Select Device options. 5. Microsoft Windows NT 3.5 will prompt you for the correct
path where the Trident drivers are located. ENTER the path “X:NT35” replace “X:” with the actual CD-ROM drive letter containing Video-57P CD. 6. A list of all Trident drivers will appear, SELECT the resolution and color depth desired. 7. RESTART Microsoft Windows NT. The desired Trident driver will then be in effect.

OS/2 WARP

DISPLAY DRIVER INSTALLATION Before installing Jaton Trident display driver for the first time, the current display type has to be VGA mode. The instructions to return to VGA mode are in the “Recovering from an incorrect display type selection” section of your OS/2 user’s manual.
Trident OS/2 display driver is installed by following these simple steps. 1. PLACE the VIDEO-57P OS/2 driver diskette into drive X:. 2. OPEN an OS/2 full-screen or OS/2 Window session under
“Command Prompt” of the System folder. 3. SWITCH the current drive to drive X:. 4. TYPE the following command: INSTALL.
The Trident LOGO will now appear and a screen that reads “Trident Display Drivers Setting” will appear after that.
DISPLAYING OR CHANGING SCREEN RESOLUTION This Trident OS/2 Display Drivers utility supports the following resolutions with OS/2. The required memory is shown in parentheses.

640x480x256 800x600x256 1024x768x256 1280x1024x256 (2M) 1600x1200x256 (4M) 640x480x65K

800x600x65K 1024x768x65K (2M) 1280x1024x65K (4M) 640x480x16.7M 800x600x16.7M (2M) 1024x768x16.7M (4M)

The first page of the Trident Display Drivers Settings window is labeled Screen Resolution selection page.
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SELECT the resolution and color depth ENABLE/DISABLE virtual screen
The second page is the Monitor Model selection page. CLICK on Monitor tab to go to this page. POINT to and CLICK on the down arrow button to show a list of monitor
models. SELECT the monitor model. If you can not find your monitor’s model,
SELECT “Default”.
The third page is the Refresh Rate selection page. CLICK on Refresh tab to go to this page. The refresh rates displayed are those supported at each resolution by the
monitor specified in the Monitor Model selection page. You can change the refresh rates by CLICKING on down arrow button
and then CLICKING on the desired refresh rate.
The fourth page is Frame Buffer Address selection page. This option is only supported by VESA local bus versions of the graphics adapter. CLICK Desktop tab to go to this page. POINT to and CLICK the down arrow button to show a list of available
frame buffer addresses (in units of Megabytes). After the selections, CLICK on the Install button to complete the
installation. REBOOT OS/2 to have this installation take effect.
SCREEN RESOLUTION CONFIGURATION 1. DOUBLE-CLICK on the Video configuration folder, and then
DOUBLE-CLICK on the “Display Setting” object.
2. To change resolution and/or color depth
a) CLICK on “Screen” tab. b) SELECT the resolution and color depth. c) CLICK on “Set” button.
3. To enable virtual screen
a) POINT to and CLICK “Virtual Screen” on the button
4. To change refresh rate
a) CLICK on Refresh tab. b) POINT to and CLICK on the down arrow button.
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c) SELECT the refresh rate. d) CLICK on the “Set” button to take effect. e) If you don’t want the selected refresh rate, CLICK the
Undo button or PRESS the ‘U’ key to return to previous refresh rate.
5. To change frame buffer address (VESA Local Bus Adapter only, not applied here.)
VIRTUAL SCREEN
Virtual screen allows the monitor to display the information of a larger screen within the physical borders of the monitor. On some monitors the display fonts at higher resolutions, such as 1024×768, may be too small to read. If virtual screen is enabled for 1024×768 resolution, the display font will be larger in 640×480 resolution or 800×600 resolution; however, the information displayed will be that of 1024×768 resolution. To enable virtual screen: 1. SET UP the Trident display at a higher resolution, such as
1024×768. 2. SHUTDOWN the system and then re-start the system. 3. GO into the Video configuration folder and CLICK on the
“Display Setting” object to select the screen resolution page. 4. CHOOSE a smaller resolution such as 640×480 and CHECK
the line that says “Virtual Screen On”. 5. CLICK on the “Set” button and the screen will automatically
be set to physical screen size of 640×480 with virtual screen size of 1024×768.
Notes: 1. To activate virtual screen, color depth has to be the same for both the
physical screen and virtual screen. 2. Virtual screen size has to be larger than physical screen size. 3. If you change the resolution and/or the frame buffer address, you must
reboot OS/2 to have the changes take effect. 4. If you decide to change your hardware system configuration, such as
upgrading video memory or system memory, you should
a) Change the resolution to VGA. b) Change the hardware configuration. c) Re-install the Trident OS/2 Display Drivers.
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CHAPTER 5 TROUBLESHOOTING
The following are some recommended steps to take if the display do not operate or not function properly in your system:
1. Check to see if the card is firmly seated in its PCI Bus expansion slot. (Note: Turn the system power off before adjusting the card.)
2. Be sure your monitor is properly connected to the card. Be sure your monitor’s pin definition matches the 15-pin VGA connector.
COMMONLY ASKED QUESTIONS

MONITORS

Q. Why does the display shift or change sizes when I switch

modes?

Some monitors lack auto-sizing features or do not synchronize

properly to the display board output. In some cases, refresh rate

adjustments may be necessary. Your monitor also has controls to

adjust the screen to your preference.

Q. What kind of monitor do I need to display 800×600 or

1024×768 resolution?

To display 800×600 resolution at 60Hz refresh, your monitor must

be capable of a 35.5KHz horizontal scan rate (e.g., NEC 2A, 3D).

At 72Hz refresh, your monitor must be capable of a 48.0KHz scan

rate (e.g., Sony HG 1304, NEC 4D, 5D, Seiko 1450).

To display 1024×768 interlaced, your monitor must be capable of

a 35.5 KHz horizontal scan rate (e.g., NEC 3D, Seiko 1430 or

1440). To display 1024×768 non-interlaced (60Hz), your monitor

must be capable of a 48.7KHz scan rate (e.g., SonyHG 1304,

NEC4D, 5D, Seiko 1450). To display 1024×768 non-interlaced

(70Hz), your monitor must be capable of a 56.4KHz scan rate

(e.g. NEC 4FG).

Q. What kind of monitor do I need to display 1280×1024

resolution?

A 17-inch or larger size monitor is recommended to display 1280x

1024 (e.g. NEC 4FG). The monitor must also be capable of a 47.5

KHz scan rate.

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Chapter 5 Troubleshooting

SYSTEMS

Q. Can I have two graphics boards in my system at the same

time?

A MGA card may co-reside with a the VGA adapter. You cannot

have an EGA, CGA, or another VGA card co-resident.

Q. I see “mouse droppings” on the screen when I move my

mouse a around. Is this a problem with my mouse?

It could be the version of your mouse driver may not support

VGA. Another possibility is that the DRAM on your card is not

seated correctly or is not the right speed. If you have added your

own DRAM chips to the card, call technical support to verify they

are the correct ones.

SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS

Q. My display is not correct when I run VPIC or RIX. What’s wrong?

The first thing to check is the software version. VPIC should be

version 4.6 or later. RIX must be version 1.38 or later. If you are

using an earlier version of VPIC, please contact your software

vendors for upgrade information.

Q. My display is not correct when I run the Print Preview function for WordPerfect 5.1, File Import/Export function of Applause 1.5, or IBM 3270 Emulation version 2. What’s wrong?

Try using the utility program called TPATCH. TPATCH provides

several patch files to correct screen display problems. You can use

TPATCH to correct the display problems in WordPerfect 5.1,

Applause 1.5, IBM 3270 Emulation, and others. Please refer to

the Software Owner’s Manual for details.

TROUBLESHOOTING MS-WINDOWS 3.1X
This section provides troubleshooting tips for users having problems installing or using the high resolution drivers provided for Windows 3.1. Be sure you have installed the TMONITOR and SVM utilities on your hard drive before you continue with the troubleshooting procedures.
NOTE: “Delete driver files” means to delete all previous drivers prior to installing the new ones; i.e., “VDDTVGA.386”, “OEM*.INF” files,
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all the “MT*.DRV”, “T*.DRV” and “W*.DRV” files in the C:WINDOWS and C:WINDOWSSYSTEM directories. Please refer to the README.TXT file in the WIN directory for a complete list of these file names.

Problem:
Solution A:
Solution B: Solution C: Solution D:
Solution E:

Windows screen won’t come up. It kicks back to the DOS prompt.
Ensure the driver version is the correct one for the chipset on your card. Ensure the resolution chosen is a match for the amount of memory on-board. Refer to (open) the README.TXT file in the WIN subdirectory of your Driver/Utility Disk for details on memory requirements. Try adding the statement “EMMEXCLUDE=AOOO-C7FF” to the [386 enhanced] section of the Windows SYSTEM.INI file. The SYSTEM.INI file is located in the WINDOWSSYSTEM directory. If using QEMM, try adding the following QEMM exclude statement “DEVICE= QEMM386.SYS X=AOOO-C7FF” to your CONFIG.SYS file. Check the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files and minimize TSRs (Terminate and Stay Resident Programs) and Device Drivers such as the following: DEVICE=TVGABIO.SYS in CONFIG.SYS, or PCSHELL.EXE in AUTOEXEC.BAT. Delete and reinstall the driver(s). See NOTE above.

Problem:
Solution A:
Solution B: If no:

Windows hangs up during or after installing a driver.
Reread installation procedures to be sure you have installed the drivers correctly. Did Windows display an error message before hang-up? Check CONFIG.SYS and AUTOE.XEC.BAT files and minimize TSRs (Terminate and Stay Resident Programs) or Device Drivers, such as, DEVICE=MOUSE.SYS in CONFIG.SYS or PCTOOLS.EXE in AUTOE.XEC.BAT. You can also type WIN /? for a list of options that may help you find the problem. If SYSTEM .INI ( located in the WINDOWSSYSTEM directory) has been edited, try replacing with a clean version from the original Windows diskettes. (Note: If this is done, any other changes you may have made to SYSTEM.INI will be lost) Delete and reinstall the driver(s). See NOTE on previous page.

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If yes:

If Windows reports “… file corrupted”, be sure you have used the Window system program to install the drivers. Copying the drivers to your Windows directory without using the Windows SETUP will result in a file corruption error. (the files must be expanded as well as copied). If you use the correct setup program and still have problems, delete the driver files from your Windows directory and use a new set of drivers. If installing on a network via “SETUP/N”, you will need to use the “EXPAND” utility (located on original Windows diskettes) to expand the display drivers.

Problem:
Solution A:
Solution B:

Garbage on the screen or double images.
Use View Option (FS) in the SVM program to verify the problem. See the Software section for more information on the SVM program. If the problem persists, the board may be defective. Contact your dealer for further support.

Problem:
Solution:

Windows color palette does not look right or colors changing.
Most likely a defective RAMDAC, memory chip, clock chip, or crystal. Contact your dealer to have the problem taken care of.

Problem:
Solution A: Solution B:
Solution C: Solution D:

Can’t display certain modes.
Run the SVM program (See the Software section for more information on the SVM program). If the SVM program fails, go to Solutions B, C, and D. Check to see that there is enough memory on the VIDEO57P board to run this mode. For example, to run display mode 79H (1024×768-64K colors, refer to the tables in Appendix C), 2 MB of display memory is required. Run the TMONITOR program to adjust video parameters (See the Software User’s Guide for more information on the TMONITOR program). If Solutions A, B, or C do not resolve this problem, it may be hardware related. Check the specifications of the monitor.

Problem:
Solution A: Solution B: Solution C:

Windows screen size is too tall or too narrow.
Run SVM to verify the problem. Use TMONITOR to adjust screen size. Some monitors have limited bandwidth and the Windows screen size problem may not be corrected completely.

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Problem:
Solution:

Icons and characters are too small in 1024×768 and 1280×1024 modes.
It is normal for icons and characters to become smaller in higher resolutions. Verify you have the Large Fonts installed for larger characters. A 19-inch or larger monitor is recommended for these higher modes.

Problem: Mouse doesn’t function properly.
Solution A: Check mouse connection and re-boot the system. Solution B: Contact mouse vendor for latest version of the mouse driver.

Problem:
Solution:

When changing resolutions by running SETUP, the SETUP menu displays more than one selection for the same resolution mode.
When upgrading to a new set of Windows drivers, you need to delete the old OEM?.INF (e.g. OEMO.INF) file in the WINDOWSSYSTEM subdirectory. The SETUP menu will then display only one selection for each resolution mode.

Problem:
Solution:

When installing a high resolution display Driver for foreign language Windows 3.1 (i.e. German or French version of Windows 3.1), the SETUP program prompts to insert an incorrect Microsoft Windows 3.1 diskette.
Since Microsoft uses a different diskette arrangement for their foreign language Windows 3.1 fonts, the OEMSETUP.INF in the Driver/Utility Disk will prompt for a diskette number that is not correct for the foreign language Windows 3.1.

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APPENDIX A Advanced Topics

APPENDIX A – ADVANCED TOPICS

GREEN PC POWER MANAGEMENT

DPMS Power States

State

HSYNC

VSYNC

VCLK*

Ready

Standby

off

Suspend

off

Off

off

*Optional

DCLK*
on on low low

DAC*
on off off off

VESA DPMS (Display Power Management Signaling) decreases monitor power consumption after a predetermined time-out period. Deep Green PC goes beyond the conventional DPMS. The BIOS can automatically turn off the RAMDAC and reduce clocks when DPMS power down states are activated. The TGUI9680 offer read/write access allowing the complete shutdown of graphics subsystem.

BIOS Power-up sequence: 1. Turn on DCLK/VCLK clock synthesizer and wait 1ms 2. Program DCLK rate 3. Select clock synthesizer as source of DCLK 4. Program VCLK rate 5. Turn on HSYNC/VSYNC 6. Turn on DAC 7. Set screen on

BIOS Power-down sequence: 1. Set screen off 2. Turn off DAC 3. Set HSYNC/VSYNC to DPMS desired state 4. Set screen off 5. Turn off VCLK synthesizer 6. Set devisor of external 14.318MHz clock 7. Select external 14.318MHz clock as source of DCLK 8. Turn off DCLK synthesizer

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MEMORY UPGRADE
Adding more memory may further enhanced the graphics performance and functionality. There are many types of RAM in the market. They may different in IC package type, data path, and other electronic characteristics.

Usually the smaller RAM chips are packaged in DIP and larger 4MegaBits (256KBit x 16) RAM chips in SOJ. We provide mainly these three types of sockets on board for memory upgrade purpose.

Socket Type
DIP

Description Dual Inline Pins

SOJ Small-Outline J-lead ZIP Zigzag Inline Pins

Pins/Leads
20 24 40 40

RAM Organization
256KBitx4 256KBitx8 256KBitx16 256KBitx16

Memory chips are often connected in BANK to provide enough data lines to satisfy the graphics engine’s memory bus design. The following table shows the relationship between the total RAM or Banks of different BUS types are formed with the amount of RAM chips indicated in the table.

RAM Total
Bank
RAM Size 256×4 256×8 256×16

256KByte
8Bit Bank
Quantity 2 1

512Kbyte
2 8BitBanks
Quantity 4 2

1MegaByte
32Bit Bank
Quantity 8 4 2

2MegaByte
64Bit Bank
Quantity 16 8 4

32-bit memory is mostly utilized in VESA or PCI Local Bus design. From above table, you will find there are three ways to form 1MegaByte 32-bit memory bank: 8 pieces of 256×4, 4 of 256×8, or 2 of 256×16.
The memory chips we used for upgrade are often regular 5-volt Fast Page Mode or EDO DRAM. The 256×16 SOJ FPM DRAM can be generally categorized in three refresh types: Dual CAS, Symmetric Dual Write, and Asymmetric Dual Write. They are often also called 260, 270, and 170 because most memory chip manufactures use these three digits in their chip model number. The table below listed some models of 256×16 SOJ memory from different chip vendors.

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256×16 SOJ DRAM Table

Dual CAS

Extnd Data Out Symmetric 2 WE Asymmetric 2WE

Make/Type

(260)

(EDO)

(270)

(170)

Fujitsu

814260-xx

Hitachi

HM514260AJX-xx

HM514270AJ-xx HM514170ALX-xx

Micron Tech MT4c16257DJ-xx MT4c16270-xx MT4c16256DJ-xx MT4c16260DJ-x

4P16257DJ-x

4P16256DJ-x

Mitsubishi M5M44260AJ-xx

M5M44270AJ-x M5M44170AJ-x

NEC

424260-xx

424270-xx

424170-xx

OKI

MSM514260-xx MSM514265B-xx

Panasonic MN414260SJ-xx

MN414270SJ-xx MN414170SJ-xx

Samsung KM416C256BJ-x KM416c254B-x KM416C156AJ-x KM416C157AJ-x

Siemens

HYB514171BJ-xx

TMS45160-xx

TMS45165-xx

Toshiba

TC514260BJ-xx

Vitalic

V53C16256HKxx V53C16258HKxx

The same refresh type of memory should be used on graphics board. If the first bank of memory on board is 270, then the second bank should use 270. If the first bank is 170, the you must use 170 in second bank. If the first bank is 260, then second bank could be 260 or EDO. If the first bank is EDO, then EDO must be used in the second bank.
Memory speed is usually determined by its access time. 70ns memory are usually used on our board. The same or faster speed (60ns or less) of RAM should be used for additional banks of memory.
To upgrade VIDEO-57P from one(1) to two(2) MegaBytes of display memory, you need two pieces of either 256×16 SOJ EDO or 260 memory depending on the type of memory used in first bank. The memory bus will automatically switch from 32-bit to 64-bit once you have two mega bytes of memory installed.
The above is a just general guideline on upgrading graphics board we make. Please verify the type of DRAM installed on board, then contact your vendor for purchasing the appropriate memory.

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APPENDIX B – ADAPTER PINOUT AND SYNC
CONNECTOR INFORMATION
IMPORTANT The VIDEO-57P board uses the same 15-pin (DB15) cable available from monitor manufacturers to interface with the IBM PS/2 computers. Using an incorrect cable may result in damage to the monitor and/or adapter.

ANALOG COLOR DISPLAY PINOUTS Table 2 lists the GUI accelerator analog color display pinouts.
Table 2. Analog Color Display Pinouts

Note:

Pin Function 1 Red Video1 2 Green Video1 3 Blue Video1 4 Not Used 5 Ground 6 Red Return (ground) 7 Green Return (ground) 8 Blue Return (ground) 9 Vcc (DDC Power +5v) 10 Sync Return (ground) 11 Monitor ID (not used) 12 SDA (DDC support) 13 Horizontal Sync 14 Vertical Sync 15 SCL (DDC support)
Analog monochrome type monitors use green video for all video input and ignore red and blue video.

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CONVERSION TABLE: PIN ADAPTERS If you will be using a 9-to-15 pin adapter cable to link your 9 pin monitor connector to the 15 pin connector, check Table 3 carefully before you install the cable. The adapter requires a D-shaped 9 pin female connector and a D-shaped 15 pin male connector.
Table 3. 9-to-15 Pin Conversion Table

9 pin Signals Red
Green Blue
Horz Sync Vert Sync Red Ground Green Ground Blue Ground Sync Ground

Pin No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

15 pin Signals Red
Green Blue
Horz Sync Vert Sync Return Red Return Green Return Blue Digital Ground
Ground

Pin no. 1 2 3 13 14 6 7 8 10 5

ANALOG VIDEO SIGNALS
Black Level = 0 V Full Intensity Level = +0.7 V

VESA FEATURE CONNECTOR

Number 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

Description P0 P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7
DCLCK BLANK# H. Sync V. Sync Ground

Number 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

Description Ground Ground Ground EVIDEO E. Sync
E. DCLCK Vcc
Ground Ground Ground Ground MCLK(optional) OVRW(optional)

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APPENDIX C – DISPLAY MODES
The adapter supports a variety of video modes (standard VGA and higher resolution) which are accessible through a video BIOS call from assembly language or other higher-level programming languages. When you start-up in DOS, the screen display defaults to the standard 80column text or alpha-numeric mode. This is mode 3 on a color system, or mode 7 on a monochrome VGA.
GRAPHIC MODE SUPPORT
Your monitor must be capable of displaying the graphic/text mode you choose. The following tables list all available display modes and related information for the adapter. Note that the total number of possible colors to choose from is 16,777,216 in all modes except for monochrome modes (designated with the letter `M’), where the color palette is two (black and the monitor phosphor color). For example, in mode 62 (1024×768-256 colors), the total colors available for display on the monitor at one time is 256 different colors from a total of 16,777,216. In mode 6C (640×480-16M colors), the total number of colors available for display on the monitor at one time is 16,777,216; i.e., 24 bit true color.
Table 1: Graphic Mode (Standard) Cross Reference

Grp Mode

0h,1h

2h,3h

4h,5h

10h

11h

12h

13h

Resolution -Colors
320×200-16 640×200-16 320×200-4 640×200-2 720×350-M 320×200-16 640×200-16 640×350-16 640×480-2 640-480-16 320×200-256

Horz Vert KHz Hz 31.4 70 31.4 70 31.4 70 31.4 70 31.4 70 31.4 70 31.4 70 31.4 70 31.4 60 31.4 60 31.4 70

Mem Req. 1M 1M 1M 1M 1M 1M 1M 1M 1M 1M 1M

Text Res 40×25 80×25 40×25 80×25 80×25 40×25 80×25 80×25 80×30 80×30 40×25

Mode Type Text Text Graph Graph Text Graph Graph Graph Graph Graph Graph

Scan Type
NI NI NI NI NI NI NI NI NI NI NI

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Table 2: Graphic Mode (extended) Cross Reference

Grp Mode

Resolution -Colors

Horz Vert Mem KHz Hz Req

Text Res

Mode Scan Type Type

50h

640×480-16 31.5 60 1M 80×30 Text

51h

640×473-16 31.5 60 1M 80×43 Text

52h

640×480-16 31.5 60 1M 80×60 Text

53h 1056×350-16 31.3 70 1M 132×25 Text

54h 1056×480-16 31.3 60 1M 132×30 Text

55h 1056×473-16 31.3 60 1M 132×43 Text

56h 1056×480-16 31.3 60 1M 132×60 Text

57h 1188×350-16 31.3 70 1M 132×25 Text

58h 1188×480-16 31.3 60 1M 132×30 Text

59h 1188×473-16 31.3 60 1M 132×43 Text

5Ah 1188×480-16 31.3 60 1M 132×60 Text

3 5Bh_3 800×600-16 53.7 85 1M 100×75 Graph NI

2 5Bh_2 800×600-16 46.8 75 1M 100×75 Graph NI

1 5Bh_1 800×600-16 37.8 60 1M 100×75 Graph NI

5Ch 640×400-256 31.6 70 1M 80×25 Graph NI

3 5Dh_4 640×480-256 43.2 85 1M 80×30 Graph NI

2 5Dh_3 640×480-256 37.5 75 1M 80×30 Graph NI

1 5Dh_2 640×480-256 37.8 72 1M 80×30 Graph NI

0 5Dh_1 640×480-256 31.4 60 1M 80×30 Graph NI

3 5Eh_3 800×600-256 53.7 85 1M 100×37 Graph NI

2 5Eh_2 800×600-256 46.8 75 1M 100×37 Graph NI

1 5Eh_1 800×600-256 37.8 60 1M 100×37 Graph NI

4 5Fh_4 1024×768-16 60.4 75 1M 128×48 Graph NI

3 5Fh_3 1024×768-16 56.4 70 1M 128×48 Graph NI

2 5Fh_2 1024×768-16 48.5 60 1M 128×48 Graph NI

1 5Fh_1 1024×768-16 35.5 87i 1M 128×48 Graph

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Table 2: Graphic Mode (extended) Cross Reference

Grp Mode

Resolution -Colors

Horz Vert Mem Text Res Mode Scan

KHz Hz Req

Type Type

4 62h_4 1024×768-256 60.0 75 1M 128×48 Graph NI

3 62h_3 1024×768-256 56.4 70 1M 128×48 Graph NI

2 62h_2 1024×768-256 48.3 60 1M 128×48 Graph NI

1 62h_1 1024×768-256 35.5 87i 1M 128×48 Graph

6 63h_3 1280×1024-16 80.0 75 1M 160×64 Graph NI

4 63h_2 1280×1024-16 63.9 60 1M 160×64 Graph NI

2 63h_1 1280×1024-16 46.4 87i 1M 160×64 Graph

6 64h_3 1280×1024-256 80.0 75 2M 160×64 Graph NI

4 64h_2 1280×1024-256 63.9 60 2M 160×64 Graph NI

2 64h_1 1280×1024-256 46.4 87i 2M 160×64 Graph

4 65h_1 1600×1200-16 62.5 96i 1M 160×64 Graph

4 66h_1 1600×1200-256 62.5 96i 4M 160×64 Graph

1 6Ah_1

800×60016(5b1)

37.8 60 1M 100×75 Graph NI

3 6Ch_4 640×480-T 43.2 85 1M 80×30 Graph NI

2 6Ch_3 640×480-T 37.5 75 1M 80×30 Graph NI

1 6Ch_2 640×480-T 37.8 72 1M 80×30 Graph NI

0 6Ch_1 640×480-T 31.4 60 1M 80×30 Graph NI

0 6Ch_0 640×480-T 31.4 60 2M 80×30 Graph NI

2 6Dh_1 800×600-T 46.8 75 2M 100×37 Graph NI

1 6Dh_0 800×600-T 37.8 60 2M 100×37 Graph NI

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Table 2: Graphic Mode (extended) Cross Reference

Grp Mode

Resolution -Colors

6Eh

1024×768-T

3 74/5h_4

640x48032K/64

2 74/5h_3

640x48032K/64

1 74/5h_2

640x48032K/64

0 74/5h_1

640x48032K/64

3 76h/7_4

800x60032K/64

2 76h/7_3

800x60032K/64

1 76h/7_2

800x60032K/64

78h/9

1024×768-

32K/64

78h/9

1024×768-

32K/64

78h/9

1024×768-

32K/64

2 7Ah/B 1280x102432K/64

(I) Interlaced

(NI) Non-interlaced

Horz KHz
35.5
43.2

Vert Hz
87i
85

Mem Req
4M
1M

Text Res
128×48 80×30

Mode Type
Graph
Graph

37.5 75 1M 80×30 Graph

37.8 72 1M 80×30 Graph

31.4 60 1M 80×30 Graph

53.7 85 1M 100×37 Graph

46.8 75 1M 100×37 Graph

37.8 60 1M 100×37 Graph

60.0 75 2M 128×48 Graph

48.3 60 2M 128×48 Graph

35.5 87i 2M 128×48 Graph

46.4 87i 4M 160×64 Graph

Scan Type
I NI NI NI NI NI NI NI NI NI I I

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Documents / Resources

The Retro Web Video-57P Graphics and Motion Video Accelerator [pdf] User Manual
Video-57P Graphics and Motion Video Accelerator, Video-57P, Graphics and Motion Video Accelerator, Motion Video Accelerator, Video Accelerator, Accelerator

References

User Manual

The Retro Web Video-57P Graphics and Motion Video Accelerator

Specifications

Product Usage Instructions

FAQs

Introduction

THE VIDEO-57P HARDWARE

THE VIDEO-57P SOFTWARE

TroubleshootingW

Documents / Resources

References

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