Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 20:04:30 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Confusion over W98 drivers for 100CT
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> * 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.
^ | Okay... I think I can do without these.
> * 05-01-1998 Toshiba Utility Toshiba Windows 95 Controls for > Libretto 100CT (v1.0; 02-06-1998; 294K)I don't think so. There was a W98 power saver driver set that I downloaded that seemed pretty obvious. I didn't list all of the drivers here that I downloaded, just the ones for W95, and the ones I didn't understand.
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.
Okay
> * 09-15-1999 Toshiba Utility Toshiba Win95 Controls Uninstaller > (v1.0.; 07-14-1999; 692K)Okay... I set them up after an installation of W98 that I've ghosted. Didn't seem to hurt anything. Am giving a W98SE another go now.
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?Yeah... I had the Win98 installation directory on the D: partition, and all the drivers for the EPR got set up when I booted with the Lib in it
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:Okay... great. APM is 'Advanced Power Management', isn't it? And ACPM a more advanced version of the same basic thing, right?
>
> 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 only mentioned it because I was looking in the archives for info to explain the driver. One thread seemed to point to installing this driver to resolve a conflict with the video driver. But admittedly I didn't follow the thread all the way through.
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.
Aaack.... Really!? This was a BIOS revision, huh?
> And these... Does the IR driver have to be upgrades, and what does > the mouse driver change?:OH! Okay... I was going to point out from your mention of this above, that there is a specific W98 Power Saver driver. But that's the upgrade ay? That's good to know.
>
> 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.
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 :-)Wow... lots of great tips.... Thanks way muchly Lee!
Matt
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