Display Driver is VgaSave

[Roberto Hofer]

Hello, i am new to xpe and so probably my error is noob - like, but I
do not get this display driver working. I got the S3 on board driver
(package including the .sld file) from www.viaarena.com and it is
tested with xpe (at least via´s hp says so).

I installed it into the Component database, added it into td and made
a new run time image. After FBA VGASAVE is selected and not the S3
package.
I ripped off VgaSave in TD and didn´t care of the dependencies, but
FBA crashed in this run time.

The driver package is correct. I installed it on a normal Win XP Sp1
and it worked fine.

So my question is, how do I force FBA or TD to select the S3 driver
and not VgaSave?

Thanks in advance for any hint

Roberto

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Hi Roberto,

First don't remove component "VGA Save" since its files are needed by the
OS.
If your driver is correct XPe will install it and use it during the FBA.

Also if this is your first image. Create backup and resolve all
dependencies. Do this until you make your first working XPe, then you can
play with removing things when you know that everything is working.

Regards,
Slobodan

 

[Roberto Hofer]

Hi Roberto,

First of all: THANK YOU FOR ANSWERING THAT FAST!

First don't remove component "VGA Save" since its files are needed by the
OS.

It´s still in the solution. Without it FBA crashes.

If your driver is correct XPe will install it and use it during the FBA.

Well, driver is correct, because it works on a normal Win XP Sp1
without any problems. I got the .SLD files directly from Via.

Also if this is your first image. Create backup and resolve all
dependencies. Do this until you make your first working XPe, then you can
play with removing things when you know that everything is working.

All dependencies are resolved. No warnings, no errors.
Well, the image is booting with everything. Network, Sound and a lot
of other things are fine, but the graphic driver isn´t recognized I
suppose.

Any way to force Win XPe not to use VgaSave? Or any other way getting
this graphic card working properly?

Regards,
Slobodan

Again: Thanks in advance to everyone helping

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

You don't need to force XPe to stop using Vga Save.

If any better driver than this is found it will automatically switch to that
driver.

I don't know what problem you might have. (Some missing dependency or who
knows).

Start by examining setupapi.log for driver start failure reason.

Regards,
Slobodan