Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Graphics card

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From: "McNutt, Justin M." <McNuttJ@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 08:18:48 -0500
> Hi, I have only just started using ethereal but I am having 
> difficulties
> with a general protection fault relating to my graphics card 
> driver file
> (macxw4). The graphics card is an ATI Rage IIC AGP. The 
> latest driver and
> direct x files are installed but this GPF is making ethereal 
> unusable as it
> falls over when I try and set up a capture filter. Any ideas 
> or previous
> experience would be appreciated! Thanks, Lee.

You mention Direct X, so we can assume you are running Windows.  To begin to
troubleshoot this, we need to know the following:

1)  EXACTLY which version of Windows?  95?  95 OSR2?  98?  98 SE?

2)  What version of Direct X?

3)  What is the ATI's device driver version number?

--J