5465 Graphics Display Device Driver for Microsoft Windows NT
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Device Driver Version: 1.71a
Contents
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1.0 Changes in this release
1.1 Changes from previous releases
2.0 Installing the Device Drivers
3.0 Component Description
1.0 Changes in this release
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Version: 1.71a
Release Date: 07/02/98
Internal#: qa171b07
Default Set: Graphics Bus Priority On
NEW FEATURES:
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* Performance improvements when Graphics Bus Priority is off.
* Bandwidth equation has been updated to include 300Mhz or 600MB/s concurrent
support and to fix video noise in certain modes.
* A programmable blitter stride has been added for PC98 certification.
BUG FIXES:
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- Using NT4.0 with SP3, system hangs with HP Motorola font at 32bpp loaded.
PDR#11546
- Video noise occurs when running WinHEC NT tests at 1600x1200, 65K colors@60
Hz. PDR#11314.
- Updated the FIFO threshold values to include clocks 16h and 17h.
- NT 4.0, Corruption when running Disk Administrator.PDR#11389.
- Timbuktu software fails to install and error message occurs. PDR#11398.
- Corrected problems with NT Blue screen of death. A black screen from
800x600x256 and screen out of sync from 1024x768x16M mode appears. PDR#11350
- Screen is corrupted and system hangs up when shutting down the system after
upgrading from NT4.0 to NT5.0. PDR#11290.
- With on-board chip, NT 4.0 hangs when another video card has been installed
in the system.. PDR#11377.
- Active Movie: MPEG video displayed with wrong colors at 1024x768x24bpp.
PDR#11160.
- Compaq V70 monitor shows pixel jitter problem. PDR#11317.
- Strings in big monotype fonts have double characters. PDR#11280.
- The mystify screen saver opens up very slowly. PDR#11284.
- Overfly is locking up when returning from full screen DOS Box.
- Fixed the DDC2b acknowledge code. PDR#11209.
1.1 Changes from previous releases
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Version: 1.70
Release Date: 03/06/98
Internal#: qa: nt170b04.02; eng:nt.170.eng.09
Default Set: GBP disabled
Bug Fixes
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- System hangs in OpenGL Lite during Full Regression Run (WHQL) test.
PDR#11202.
- Black garbage box appears after selecting 3D OpenGL screen saver in some
modes. PDR#11203.
- Corrected a system freeze when returning from a DOS prompt while running an
AVI file.
- Bandwidth noise appears when running WHQL Overfly in 800x600 resolution or
above. PDR#11124.
- PowerPoint ,Bitmap image is broken on the desktop icon and PowerPoint95
(Ver7)slide show image. PDR#11132.
- Hangs while scrolling document in Word97 with 5465 in NT3.51J. PDR#10875.
New Features / Major Changes
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- The BitBlt striping turned on. Implemented 16-bit registers instead of
32-bit.
- Frame Buffer bursting has been enabled for the 5465AF and higher chips.
- Write Combining has been turned on for the frame buffer on CPU's with MTRR
registers.
- Added shadow registers for DRAWBLTDEF and BGCOLOR registers. This reduces
the number of write to these registers.
- Several enhancements now allow WinBench 98 to run with GBP turned on.
- Changed the way the host data is sent to the chip when GBP is off. This
reduces the bus latency.
- Registry switch ('LowRes') to enable low-resolution modes. By default,
low-res modes are disabled.
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Version: 1.62
Release Date: 12/22/97
New Features / Major Changes
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- Fixed USB (Data Streaming) problem.
- Added new monitor refresh filter.
- Turned off color translation.
- Turned on hardware overlay.
- Added autodetection of 600 MB/s so that the FIFO Threshold values will be
overriden to remove noise.
- Fixed character corruption in the title bar of WinBench 97 while running
business Graphics WinMark test in 800x600x24 and 800x600x32.
- Fixed registry problems accessing driver and monitor options.
- Fixed palette corruption in 8 bpp Open/GL modes.
- Fixed palette corruption in 8 bpp with Open/GL screen savers.
- Reduced noise for all 514 MB/s video modes.
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Version: 1.60
Release Date: 10/15/97
New Features / Major Changes
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- Added support for CL-GD5465 AF silicon. Removed errant code that makes
previous release specific to AD and earlier silicon.
- Enabled 256-byte-fetch mode for CL-GD5465 AF silicon.
- Provided a new, faster, memory manager. The off-screen heap management
code was rewritten to provide better 2D performance.
- Added a new Monitor Selection property sheet. A Monitor Selection tab was
added to the Display Properties page. Using this page prevents the driver
from offering the user modes that they cannot use.
- Enabled DirectDraw modes below 640x480.
- Overhauled the install files. Unused install files were removed and several
changes were made to support unattended installation.
- The text-mode boot screen is no longer displaying the version string.
Displaying this string was causing problems with unattended install.
- Hardware color translation was removed. A bug was discovered in the
hardware color translation code, so this code was disabled until the
problem could be identified and fixed.
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Version: 1.52a
Release Date: 9/12/97
New Features / Major Changes
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- Removed CL546X.DLL from installation resulting in driver not totally
compatible with 5464 and 5462. This module will be put back in future
release.
- Added support for 5465 AF Silicon. Removed errant code that makes previous
release specific to AD and earlier Silicon.
- Fixes to MEMMGR.C and BRUSH.C that were resulting in TDDRAW errors in WHQL
Testing.
- Changes to driver version numbers to correspond with MS standards.
- Incorporated, but disabled performance memory manager updates.
- Fixed the MODE.INI chip reset code to properly reset the 5465 device between
mode changes.
- Removed 1600x1200x16@75hz mode because of FIFO bandwidth issue.
- Changed driver version files to force version number 1.5x series.
- Fixed file versioning on blue startup screen
- Support for for 1600x1200x8@85 hz
- DirectDraw fix. - TDDRAW test case 29, changes to comprehend bad values
passed in components of the DDBLTFX structure in DD_BLTDATA.
2.0 Installing the Device Drivers
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1. Select Control Panel from the Main group.
2. Select the Display icon.
3. Select Change Display Type.
4. Select Change from the Adapter Type area.
5. Select Other.
6. Place the Windows NT Installation Disk into drive A.
7. Select Install and click on Yes when the Installing Driver
dialog box appears.
8. When the Windows NT Setup dialog box appears, select drive A,
and click on Continue.
A message appears stating that the drivers were successfully
installed.
9. Click on OK.
10. Restart Windows NT.
3.0 Component Versions
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File Name Version Component Description
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546x_HBC.dll 1.00.0003 Host Bus Config
546x_HBC.hlp N/A Host Bus Config Help Document
546x_HBC.txt N/A Host Bus Config Text Document
CL546x.inf N/A Setup Information
Disk1 N/A Installation Tag File
cl5465.dll 1.71a 5465 display driver
cl546x.dll 1.71a 5462/5464 display driver
cl546xm.sys 1.71a 546x miniport
clmcd.dll 1.71a 5465 OpenGL mini client driver
monisel.dll 1.00.0008 Monitor Selection Utility
monisel.hlp N/A Monitor Selection Utility Help Document
monisel.txt N/A Monitor Selection Utility Text Document
readme.1st N/A This File. ASCII text file.
timings.dat N/A Monitor Timing Information.