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Ken Ruppel wrote:
> J. Clarke wrote:
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>>Ken Ruppel wrote:
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>>>Good Man wrote:
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>>>>Ken Ruppel <kpruppel@optonline.net> wrote in news:413FE9A4.2070309
>>>>@optonline.net:
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>>>>>The subject says it all. The Remote Wonder II does nothing. After the
>>>>>Catalyst 4.8 install (in which the RWII software installed OK), when I
>>>>>plug in the RWII USB receiver, it is noticed by W2K, no problem.
>>>>>However, the Device Manager shows that the drivers for this device did
>>>>>not install, therefore the remote is non-operational. I searched for
>>>>>some other drivers pertaining only to the RWII, but can find nothing.
>>>>>
>>>>>Anybody know about this?
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>>>>download the Remote Wonder drivers explicitly from ATI, then plug in
>>>>your receiver?
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>>>The drivers are assumed included in the Catalyst 4.8.
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>>Then your assumption is incorrect. You said you "searched for some other
>>drivers". It is not necessary to "search" for ATI drivers, just go to
>><http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html>, click on the OS version you're
>>using, "REMOTE CONTROL", "REMOTE WONDER II" and do what it tells you.
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>>>But that is not the problem.
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>>>Once again, this is one of those install programs that asks you where
>>>you want to install the app, but it only works from the C: drive.
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>>I assume then that your remote is now working?
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> Is the entire suite of ATI software not included in Catalyst 4.8? I got
> the RemCtrl dir from the Catalyst 4.8 install, also. So this is not a
> fair assumption? Then what the heck does the RemCtrl dir from Catalyst
> 4.8 do?
Probably a placeholder.
> And if not, then what is the point of Catalyst 4.8?
To fix the bugs in Catalyst 4.7?
> What I
> have read is that the very point of it is to bundle everything together,
> for all releases, for all users.
Nope. The very point of it is to update the previous driver version.
Catalyst 4.8 is a 26 meg download. The DAO components are another 32.4,
the DVD decoder is 5.63, multimedia center is 29.7, the remote software is
14.7, and Hydravision is 10.2. So for Catalyst 4.8 to contain everything
they'd have to somehow fit 92 compressed meg of software in addition to the
drivers into a 26 meg download. I suspect they break it down that way so
that you don't have to download 118 meg every time you update the video
driver.
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--John
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