That's bad, really bad 🙁 The ESS-Solo1 PCI refuses to work on my I865G, while Win2k and Dos is OK.
I have installed the latest chipset-drivers for win98se and thy do work with i865gv pretty well.
The intel extreme-graphics2 drivers do work also, but installing the solo1pci vxd-drivers the PCI-Solo1 gets (!) and does not install the DOS-Emulation on restart. The Esssolo.ini is not installed on root, essolo.sys and essolo.com show an error because of that. If I use my working installation for the essolo.ini the bootup seems to be OK, but DOS-Emulation does not install, even if the bootup shows no error.
Deinstalling and using the newer vxd-drivers does not solve this problem. installing the wdm-driver leeds to a lockup (bluescreen) at startup. what is wrong here? 🙁 🙁
this is a very bad day...this machine was best so far. the igp is very good and has very solid and quality video-output. dgvoodoo works to with it. I am very sad that ess-solo refuses to work on that machine.
I will do further testing, because I have no clue why the ESS-Solo works in Dos/Win2k and not in 98se. It must be something special due to the machine or the chipset.
argh! 🙁
Retro-Gamer 😀 ...on different machines