From: Aaron W. Brown (aaron_at_designcraft.com)
Date: Sun Nov 01 1998 - 13:21:51 EST
Its a shame IBM hasn't provided the expected "tier 1" support for this
popular Western Digital video chip. Win3.1 drivers are unexceptable. The
slow performance, difficulty of installation, reliablity, and lack of Direct
X capability should be an embarrassment to the Thinkpad group. Many of
these machines were manufactured in 1994 with 3 year warrantees. Givin that
Win95/98 is the most popular OS in the world, expecting native video
drivers seems reasonable.
Is there an alternative (generic?) Win95/98/NT driver for this video
setup?
Aaron Brown
>You need to install the DOS/Win3.1 video driver. Here is the link:
>http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/COBN-3EMDHL.html
>
>Subject: 755C video under Win95/8
>
>
>A few weeks ago I had a problem solved here with getting Win98 installed on
>a
>755C in only 15 minutes. I don't expect tat kind of response again, but
I'm
>sure there's someone who has run into this problem before and I can't seem
>to
>find a solution by poking around.
>
>With both Win98 and then again with Win95 (dropping back because of this
>problem), the system installed a Western Digital video driver that refuses
>to
>use more then 16 colors. I have spent a lot of time at the IBM Thinkpad
web
>site (until they broke it again tonight) trying to figure out what file(s)
I
>might be missing. I seem to have no VESA.EXE installed in config.sys but
>I'm
>not sure if that affects only DOS or Win95 too.
>
>On the slightly less annoying front, the utilities diskette seems to no
>longer
>have the programs to set up the power management features and that show the
>pictures of the front and back of the thinkpad. I'm sure I'm missing
>something here too .... what is it? I know that the utilities changed for
>Win98 on the 760+ thinkpads to use the Microsoft configuration code but
it's
>not clear what happens for the old 755's.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Bob Cowles
>
>
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