&xwp;: "Drivers" page

The "Drivers" page is added by &xwp; to allow you to view the drivers which are currently installed through the &cfgsys; file. This gives you a handy interface to view and modify installed drivers and their parameters.

The drivers are sorted into categories. Expand an item in the tree on the left to view the drivers. When you select a driver in the tree on the left, you will see more information on the right for that driver.

The "Version" and "Vendor" information is retrieved directly from the driver file, similar to what the BLDLEVEL utility does on the command line.
The "Parameters" field lists the parameters which are set for this driver in the &cfgsys; file.

The driver items in the tree on the left each have a &popmenu; where you can receive additional help on that driver:

If the driver is one of the default &os2; drivers, you can probably view the corresponding page in the &os2; Command Reference (CMDREF.INF) by selecting "Show help in &os2; Command Reference".
The ConfigTool database, a separately available freeware package, also provides information for many drivers. Select "Show help in ConfigTool database" to open the corresponding help panel for a driver. The menu item is only enabled if the ConfigTool INF file CFGDAT.INF resides in the system path that is specified by the BOOKSHELF environment variable in &cfgsys;.
Some drivers come with their own help file. Often, information is also available in help files that are not directly related to a specific driver. Selecting "Search in all help files" starts a search for the driver name in all help files that reside in the BOOKSHELF and HELP paths. After the search has been finished, you can browse and select the results. The menu item is only enabled if the separately available help viewer NewView is installed as either a complete replacement for VIEW.EXE or a stand-alone tool with executable and DLL in PATH and LIBPATH, respectively.

For most drivers, except for those which won't accept parameters, you can change the parameters in the parameters field.

For several drivers, easy-to-use configuration dialogs have been added as well. If the "Configure" button is enabled, you can press it to have a configuration dialog for the parameters of the currently selected drivers. Such a configuration dialog will then change the "Parameters" entry field for you.

You have to press "Apply" to update the &cfgsys; line with the new parameters -- either if you have changed the "Parameters" field yourself or if you have used a configuration dialog. Pressing "Apply" will only modify the one line in &cfgsys; with the currently selected driver. If you select another driver, your configuration gets lost.