Re: laptops, video drivers and jfw 3.2

[Krajczar Tech Center, Damon Fibraio]

Jawbone is an interface that makes JFW work better with Naturally Speaking.
It relies largely on knowing what the microphone status is in, something
defined by an icon in the task tray. On my laptop, jfw cannot recognize
this icon and I cannot label it. I don't give a damn right now about being
able to use the stupid DVD drive or video capture, I just need to get this
working before Friday of next week. Thanks for the help, this is rather
irritating at best.
At 09:01 PM 4/22/99 , you wrote:
> I haven't experienced this one myself though I've found that task tray 
> access under 98 in general can sometimes be a bit screwey.
> There were a few posts a while back that told of a cuple of different 
> solutions to this problem.
> I've been exceedingly happy with my gateway's performance with jfw, though 
> I've never tried to label graphics in the task tray, since the tooltip 
> reading functions of jfw pick the graphics labels up for me.
> What's this jawbone of which you speak?
> As for the video card, its a trident cyber 9397 and the trident website is 
> http://www.trid.com
> I don't, however, recommend that you use non gateway drivers with gateway 
> hardware, since gateway have done some fairly significant modifications 
> themselves, particularly to make the graphics and sound drivers cooperate 
> with their dvd hardware/software properly, and you will likely end up not 
> being able to use features like your dvd drive, and/or video capture 
> capabilities.
> As regard to the 32bit/16 bit driver issue, I have no idea. I  ran my 
> machine in its default configuration, it worked, end of story.
> Regards
> Aaron
> On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 11:22:36AM -0400, Krajczar Tech Center, Damon 
> Fibraio wrote:
> > I am running a Gateway solo 9100XL laptop with a Trident Cyber something
> > video adapter and have had some video problems with JFW, like not being
> > able to label task tray icons, not being able to get JawBone working
> > because it couldn't find a label in the task tray, etc. I checked my
> > resolution settings and they are fine. I think it is the video driver. We
> > have a dVD drive in this machine, so I think it is the drivers that are set
> > up to work with the video driver. I know HJ's official stance is to find
> > 16-bit drivers. i called Gateway, and they don't understand why we can't
> > use 32-bit drivers and think there should be a patch to fix this problem.
> > So, ax Gateway off the liost. I have treid to get to the trident web site,
> > but have had no success. This brings me to my question.
> > 
> > What laptops work with JFW, from a video driver persepctive. I work for a
> > state agency that buys equipment for its clients and blind employees and we
> > need to have this information. Is there a list of JFW supported laptops? If
> > not, should there be? I need a comprehensive list to present to my boss and
> > other appropriate people. And we need some more clarification about this
> > driver issue with JFW. For instance, aren't 16-bit drivers windows 3.1
> > drivers? If jfw is a 32-bit app, why do we need to run 16-bit drivers? and
> > did win95 use 16-bit drivers in the beginning? When did these 32 bit
> > drivers start appearing? What is the difference betweena 16-bit and 32 bit
> > driver, and why do we need the higher bit drivers? I am just trying to get
> > all the answers for the appropriate people. I would like to recommend to HJ
> > that they start seriously investigating a solution to this problem. Thanks.
> > 
> > --
> > Damon Fibraio, -- Associate for Technical Support, De Witt and Associates
> > Norma Krajczar Technology, Resource, and Developement Center
> > 130 Livingstone Ave.
> > new Brunswick, NJ 08901
> > phone: 732-937-6394, fax 732-729-6561
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Damon Fibraio, -- Associate for Technical Support, De Witt and Associates
Norma Krajczar Technology, Resource, and Developement Center
130 Livingstone Ave.
new Brunswick, NJ 08901
phone: 732-937-6394, fax 732-729-6561
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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