Hi all! First post... first of all, very impressed with the knowledge and skill here!
I know asking for display drivers for win98 is probably the most yawn-inspiring question asked, and I wouldn't ask if I didn't think it weren't remotely possible, given some of the genius work I've seen here!
Sometime last year I built a 386 and had a play with mini98 on it, and in the course of searching for a matching case cover, I ended up with an Intel G31 mainboard with an E8600, after a bit of fun and failure, I built a P4/NVS280/AWE32 for win98/dos use, though the E8600/NVS280/(no sound) was considerably faster. However, given the E8600 is a good match for max-speed win98, and the HDA audio is working (thanks guys, legendary!), the next thing I was looking at was the onboard intel G31 graphics. Boring, yes, but given w9x modded-driver supported video cards are not quite so cheap/available anymore, they should provide enough grunt for w9x gaming backed by an e8600. The other was that I saw, on retro systems revival, a w98 driver was posted that supports i945, which was what gave me (probably false) hope as i noticed that driver used ialmnt5.sys rather than ialm.vxd used in the latest official w98 supported intel graphics drivers. Unfortunately I don't have a i945 graphics chipset to test that driver with.
Anyway, I exhausted most avenues of inf-modding the G31 registry entries into the 945 (and last official w9x supported intel) driver inf, and about as much file swapping as I could think of, even ran kernelex in case the newer NT binaries checked the G31 registry entries. The furthest I got in w9x or ME was 'display not configured correctly' on startup, with bootlog showing that miniVDD couldn't start. I was kinda hoping that the driver architecture was the same, and it was just a matter of configuration stored in the registry, with the driver implementing that config.
So, if the i945 driver does actually work, is there any possible chance for a G31 driver which appears similar to the i965 graphics driver?
