Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Install issues with WinNT4 and Win2K - RESOLVED - VGA drive

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From: "John J. LeMay Jr." <jlemay@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 18:40:19 -0400
** Reply to message from "R. Scott Perry" <horizons@xxxxxxxxxxx> on Thu, 18 Oct
2001 17:35:57 -0400


> > Can anyone point me in the right direction for troubleshooting the Win2K 
> problem or
>  > verify that the VGA drivers will cause a Divide by Zero error? I saw one 
> other Divide
>  > by Zero error mentioned on the list back in May, but I didn't see any 
> responses.
> 
> [I'm not subscribed to the list, I read your message on the archives, so 
> I'm E-mailing this directly to you]
> 
> FYI, I just installed Ethereal on an NT4 server that had the plain VGA 
> drivers installed, and got the divide by zero error.  After installing the 
> proper drivers for the video card, Ethereal would load fine.  That's the 
> only change I made (aside from the reboot during installation, but I had 
> just rebooted anyways after installing WinPCap), so I'm sure that was it 
> (thanks, by the way; it was your post that pointed me to upgrading the 
> video drivers).
>                                          -Scott


Well, that settles it for me then. There must be a problem with either Ethereal
or GTK that doesn't like the MS vga drivers. Glad that my post (and head
scratching) paid off for someone besides myself.

John LeMay Jr.
Senior Enterprise Consultant
NJMC, LLC.