It's official: VideoTools 1.15 and 5.30 drivers

[lorenzoc]

I've just now get a look at Matrox web site:

Now when you select Drivers - Latest Drivers and Marvel/400 or RR-G, together with VT 1.15 you can find Drivers 5.30 (Oct 20 Revision) instead of the previous ones.

A lot of us were using 5.30 since VT 1.51 release: now it is officially supported by Matrox.

BTW 5.30 Oct 20 Rev is very similar to the original Oct 8 release but some minor changes in the setup.ini file, related to Millenium II / old Mystique cards.

Lorenzo
Italy

[PurpleHaze]

How?! Heh. I get no buttons on the remote when i start up VT 1.51 with PD 5.30.

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Asus P2B 1010 - P3-500 - And a G400Max now.
256MB 6NS 70 GB of 10k RPM SCSI UW

You're a ... 'guest' ... of the Master Control Program.

[lorenzoc]

Sorry, but I think you understand (my enthusiasm): I did two mistakes
first one:
1.15 VideoTools ---> 1.51
second one (English grammar..):
"I've just now GET... oh my old teacher.
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I beg your pardon

Lorenzo
Italy

[PurpleHaze]

Well, yeah, but it still don't work on this end

[lorenzoc]

PurpleHaze,

Soem days ago I had a similar problem.

I uninstalled as first step VT through Control Panel, Install/Uninstall; after I uninstalled all "Matrox" application (i.e Matrox DVD); as last step I removed Matrox drivers using Matrox uninstaller.

I removed all Matrox directories still on HD.

I rebooted ("VGA mode") and with "regedit" I removed all Matrox entries from WIN98 registry.

Using Norton Utilities - System check I removed some more entries in WIN registry.

OK

I installed 5.30, Matrox DVD and VT 1.51: all is working very well.

My system:
ASUS P3BF - Pentium III 500 MHz - 256 MB
G400 MAX + RR-G; two Voodoo2 SLI; AWE 64 Gold

Lorenzo
Italy

[the FooL]

I encountered the same problem you had PurpleHaze...

One question I have to ask before I divulge how I got the VT to work on my system...

Are you installing it in the default directory or somewhere different?

I'm not sure if this plays a problem... maybe someone can tell me if they were able to install in a different directory.
I'm just too lazy to uninstall and reinstall it again to test out my theory.

How I got it to work:
Ok... open a Dos window and change to the
directory where you installed VT.
In the directory, you should have files that end with DLL, OCX, and AX.
do the following at the prompt
C:\Progra~1\Matrox\VT\>C:\windows\system\regsvr32 "DLL, OCX, or AX filename here"

All the AX,OCX files should work, but I don't know which DLL's have to be registered.
(Not at home right now).
To be on the safe side, do the same for all the DLL's and ignore any errors.

Then go ahead and start up the Video tools again.

The technical explanation:
The setup seems to be failing to register the ActiveX controls that draw the buttons for the remote, so all we get on screen is pretty much the 'casing', but no functionality.

Tell me if this helped you out.


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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a rather persistent one

[This message has been edited by the FooL (edited 04 November 1999).]

[Haig]

Hi Ami,

Un-install VT and re-install them into their default directory.

Haig