Re: Anyone out there using JAWS on a Dell Inspiron 5150?

  • From: "Troy Sullivan" <sullidog_2001@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 16:04:22 -0500

To add to that, My dell system is a year old. I started out with jaws 4.0
and now up to the 5.0 update.
Troy
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cy" <cselfridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 11:12 AM
Subject: RE: Anyone out there using JAWS on a Dell Inspiron 5150?


> Andrew,
> Drop Leslie Fitzpatrick a note at
> lesfitz@xxxxxxx
> He has a new Dell and it works fine but you might ask which one he has.
> CYS...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Andrew Hart
> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 9:37 AM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Anyone out there using JAWS on a Dell Inspiron 5150?
>
>
> Hi listers,
>
> I'm contemplating the purchase of  a Dell Inspiron 5150.  The only catch
> is
> that this machine includes an Nvidia GeForce FX Go5200 graphics card and
> I
> wonder about the compatibility of this card with JAWS using the Dell
> drivers.  There is a three month old technical support note (TSN) under
> video cards on the FS web site that indicates that the Nvidia GeForce4
> 440
> Dell Go Mobile is incompatible with JAWS, resulting in video intercept
> errors.  The TSN does not refer explicitly to a GeForce FX Go card, but
> it
> does talk about Nvidia cards in Dell notebooks as being most severely
> affected by the problem.
> I'm really not sure whether the newer model card experiences the same
> difficulty in Dell or if it is perfectly fine.  I've placed a copy of
> the
> TSN at the end of this E-mail.
>
> So, I'm asking if there's anyone on the list who is currently using JAWS
>
> with a Dell Inspiron 5150 notebook, or knows of someone using JAWS with
> this notebook.  If so, I'd really appreciate you dropping me an
> E-mail--off-list so as not to clutter it up--and letting me know of your
>
> experiences with it.  Don't forget to mention what version of JAWS
> you're
> running.  I can post a summary of responses back to the list later.
>
> Many thanks,
> Andrew.
>
>
> Details of Selected Bulletin
>
> Bulletin Type: TSN
>
> Date Posted: 03/11/2003
>
> Product Name: JAWS for Windows
>
> Version: Any
>
> Category: Video Cards
>
> Short Description:
>
> Nvidia Quadro series and Nvidia mobile video cards are not compatible
> with
> JAWS: Video Intercept Errors.
>
> Problem:
>
> In Win XP as well as the other NT based Win operating systems, the
> Nvidia
> graphic workstation and mobile class video cards are incompatible with
> JAWS. JAWS
> is not unable to hook properly using both the earlier jfwvid.dll and the
>
> more recent DCM jawsvid.dll; you may get a repeated JAWS Video Intercept
> Error. Dell laptops and notebooks with Nvidia products appear to be most
> severely
> affected. Cards which have proven to be problematic include: Quadro,
> Quadro 2 MX series, Quadro DCC, GeForce4 440 Go Dell Mobile
>
> Solution:
>
> Though we have reports that some users have had success with some of
> these
> cards, the factor or set of factors which affects compatibility has not
> yet
> been
> identified. Freedom Scientific continues to look at this issue; there is
> no
> workaround at this time.
>
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