22
VIA VxD AGP Driver Installation
5
5
This section describe the installation of VIA VxD Driver which supports Accelerated
Graphics Port (AGP) functionalists.
System Requirements
This driver should be installed on a system with the HOT-591 main board which based on
VIA AGP chipset VT82C597, and others’ main board will not be supported. The VIA
VxD Driver is only supported by Windows 95 OSR 2.1 (4.00.950 B) or later version.
You may find the VxD Driver on attached CD-ROM in \Driver\VxD directory.
For Win95 users, you will need to
1.
Get “USBSUPP.EXE” from Microsoft, which includes the USB supplement and a
new memory manager (VMM32.VxD) needed for the AGP DIME (Direct Memory
Execute) feature.
2.
Get DirectX 5.0 from Microsoft. DirectX 5.0 is the first DirectX version that supports
AGP’s DIME.
3.
Get AGP Master (i.e., AGP VGA) Driver from VGA Supplier.
4.
Get “VIAGART.VXD”, a virtual device manager which usually will be installed in
the following installation procedure of the Windows 95 card driver.
For WinNT users, you will have to wait until WinNT 5.0 is released.
Installation Instructions
Run program “SETUP.EXE” in the directory of \Driver\VXD\ on attached CD-ROM, and
it will install the VIA VxD Driver automatically onto your Windows 95 system.
