Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 10:58:49 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Confusion over W98 drivers for 100CT
In a message dated 10/25/02 2:22:20 AM Mountain Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I downloaded all of the W98 drivers for the 100CT from the ToshUSA site > (after finding the video drivers listed for the 50). But I'm a bit worried > about installing some of them, as they're referred to as W95 drivers too. > Do these look familiar?: > > * 05-01-1998 Toshiba Utility Toshiba Windows 95 Accessories for Libretto > 100CT (vW95AL100USB3; 02-06-1998; 1.06M) IMHO, the accessories are worthless. I never installed them on W98se. Ran them with W95OSR2, but eventually deactivated them. As I remember, they are things like a floating Tosh multi-tasking toolbar (redundant), a magnifier, and other resource hogs. > > * 05-01-1998 Toshiba Utility Toshiba Windows 95 Controls for Libretto 100CT > > (v1.0; 02-06-1998; 294K) You need these, includes the Hairy Light Bulb power management. > > * 05-01-1998 Special Toshiba INF files for Windows 95 OSR2 (4.00.950b) > (v1.0; 09-15-1997; 46K) Shouldn't be necessary for W98, I never installed this with W95 and had no problems. > > * 09-15-1999 Toshiba Utility Toshiba Win95 Controls Uninstaller (v1.0.; > 07-14-1999; 692K) Handy to have available, I suppose. > *** 05-01-1998 Special Windows 95 Docking Utility for Libretto 100CT > (v1.0B1; 04-13-1998; 133K) I believe this was only necessary, under W95OSR2, to handle the loading/unloading of the USB driver, and then only if problems were encountered. My understanding is that it is unnecessary with W98. > > *** The W95 Docking Utility set up USB drivers fine. But I haven't loaded > the rest. Can anyone confirm the resat of them are the proper drivers for > the L100 running W98? IIRC, the USB drivers should be set up the first time you dock the 100CT and fire it up. Be sure to have the .cab files on the HDD, though, because none of the PCMCIA slots will be active when W98 asks for the CD - and of course no CD w/o PCMCIA! > > > Then there's this: > > 08-19-1998 Special Windows 98 APM to ACPI Patch for ACPI-equipped systems > (v1.0; 07-30-1998; 485K) This patch is strictly for those instances where the user has installed W98 but not updated the BIOS to at least V7.3 FIRST. Toshiba strongly recommends doing the BIOS upgrade before installing W98, but supplies this patch as an after-the-fact repair. > ^ > | This seems to resolve a conflict between the NeoMagic 128XD video driver > and hibernation. There's no documentation on it with the driver files. I don't think these are related. > > Running acpi.exe asked for the Win98 CD, Windows searched for new hardware, > didn't find any, and then the 'ACPI Updeate" installation window got stuck > at the "Finalizing Settings Please wait" screen. I had to alt-ctrl-del > stop it after ~10 minutes > > Running the other of the 2 executables, update.exe does the same thing. If you've installed the ACPI patch on to a W98 install AFTER a BIOS upgrade, I think I would wipe the whole thing and start over. > > > And these... Does the IR driver have to be upgrades, and what does the mouse > > driver change?: > > 09-15-1998 Infrared Toshiba Windows 98 Fast Infrared Port Driver (Type 0) > (v1.41-RC2.; 08-13-1998; 560K) > > 05-01-1998 Mouse Toshiba Mouse Control version 1.2 (v1.2; 11-20-1997; 658K) I would defintely upgrade the IR, it's one of the things W98se supposedly does better than W95. The mouse control adds Tosh features in Control Panel - not really necessary, but what the heck. > > Thanks for any suggestions or feedback! > > Matt My fight with the W98se install was with hibernation. The lesson was to install the W95 utilities *FIRST*, check in Control Panel to be sure that "Power Saver" is in there and functional. Then and only then install the W98 Power Saver upgrade. This will place a "Power Management" icon in Control Panel. Click this and be sure it shows "Toshiba power mode" and that all boxes say "Never". Then, under Advanced, set the lid closing and power button preferences. Then, under Hibernate, click on Enable Hibernate Support. Reboot and cross your fingers :-) Lee ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
