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

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 15:45:18 -0700 (PDT)
> > 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.

Ethereal has no clue what a VGA driver is, and does not itself do any
low-level graphics; all the drawing it does is done by GTK+, so this is
almost certainly a GTK+-for-Windows issue.  I'd suggest telling Tor
Lillqvist, the creator of GTK+-for-Windows, about this:

	http://user.sgic.fi/~tml/gimp/win32/