Chips & Technologies Wingine 64300 OPENSTEP Driver Overview

This article discusses a device driver for OPENSTEP versions 4.0 through 4.2.
Driver: Chips & Technologies Wingine 64300
Last Update: December 18, 1997

Availability Information

A version of this driver is on the OPENSTEP CD-ROM
No updated versions of this driver are available

Driver Name / Installer .pkg: Wingine64300DisplayDriver
Driver Type: Display
Driver Scope: Specific Product
Supported Components: C&T 64300 (Wingine)
PC Bus / Interface Supported by Driver*: Integrated

General Overview notes: This driver supports the Wingine 64300 Display chipset on the NEC PowerMate 466D.


Supported Products / Systems (ie integrated into PC System):
NEC Powermate 466D

Special Features of Driver / Driver Notes:
The RAMDAC used in this system supports a Color Pallet only in 8 bit modes. This results in the brightness slider in Preferences, as well as automatic screen dimming, only working if an 8 bit mode is selected.

Display Driver Details

Supported Connectors: 15-pin High Density (VGA)
Access Mode: Linear Framebuffer
Adapter Memory: 1MB DRAM, 2MB DRAM

Display Modes (Number in () after resolution indicates frame buffer size required)

16 Bit Color Modes*:
640x480 (1MB+), 800x600 (1MB+)

8 Bit Color / Greyscale Modes*:
1024x768 (1MB+), 1120x832 (1MB+), 640X480 (1MB+), 800x600 (1MB+)

Known Problems

SoftPC will generate an illegal instruction error when switching to full screen mode.

Driver Version Notes

4.00 - Released on OPENSTEP 4.0 User CD-ROM


* - Indicates information that is inclusive of the entire capability of this driver. Not all devices supported by this driver may include all features listed.
Published Date: Feb 20, 2012