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™ ®
RADEON MAC EDITION
USER’S GUIDE
Printed in Canada
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™ ® RADEON MAC EDITION User’sGuide Version 2.0 - June 2001 P/N: 107-40214-20 Copyright © 2000, ATI Technologies Inc. ™ ATI and RADEON are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of ATI Technologies Inc. All other company and/or product names are trademarks and/ or registered trademarks of their respective manufacturers. Pricing, availability, features, performance and specifications are subject to change without notice. Product may not be exactly as shown in the diagrams. All rights reserved, in
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Disclaimer While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this document, ATI Technologies Inc. assumes no liability to any party for errors or omissions contained in the Software or related documentation, any interruption of service, loss or interruption of business or anticipatory profits or for incidental or consequential damages in connection with the furnishing, performance, or use of the Software and related documentation. ATI Technologies Inc. reserves the right to make change
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Table of Contents 1. Getting Started ....................................................... 1 Introduction....................................................................... 1 What You'll Need.............................................................. 2 Related Documentation..................................................... 2 2. Installing Your Hardware ..................................... 3 Installing your RADEON™ MAC® EDITION.................4 About Monitor Sensing.................
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Getting Started 1 Introduction ™ ® The RADEON MAC EDITION represents the next generation in 3D and video acceleration for your Power ™ Macintosh computer. The RADEON graphics chip is equipped with all the 3D hardware drawing capabilities in demand by 3D high end users. Your new graphics accelerator provides: ® OpenGL and QuickDraw 3D accelerator providing superior 3D rendering performance and advanced imaging and filtering techniques QuickDraw accelerator supporting 2D resolutions up to 1920x
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What You'll Need ™ ® The RADEON MAC EDITION runs with the following minimum system requirements: Power Macintosh or Mac OS compatible computer, with PowerPC processor, with an AGP or PCI expansion slot Mac OS 9.0 or later software Apple monitor, VGA-style monitor (see note below), DVI-I style digital flat panel, or TV QuickTime 4.0 or later (see note below) Apple OpenGL 1.15 or later Minimum 32MB of system memory (OpenGL 1.15 requires 32MB of system memory) Apple analogue monitors wi
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2 Installing Your Hardware ™ ® The RADEON MAC EDITION fits into connectors called expansion slots, inside your computer. Your Mac OS computer has one or more expansion slots designed to accept Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) cards and Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) cards. WARNING ! The manufacturer assumes no liability for any damage, caused directly or indirectly, by improper installation of components by unauthorized service personnel. If you do not feel comfortable performing the i
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IMPORTANT ! If your computer stops responding (hangs) after ™ ® installing the RADEON MAC EDITION video card, you may have an incompatible graphics accelerator extension. This can occur when Mac OS software or other ATI graphic accelerator cards are installed. Restart your computer and hold down the SHIFT key during startup. This disables all extensions from loading. After disabling extensions, you can update the graphics accelerator extension by installing the software included with your ca
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Choose the AGP or PCI expansion slot you wish to use. 3 Touch the metal part of the power supply case. 4 Touching the grounded portion of the power supply case will discharge your body’s static electricity. Power Supply Expansion Slots Align the connector on the card with the selected expansion 5 slot, and press firmly until fully seated. AGP Connector PCI Connector Do not force the card. It should fit snugly into the expansion slot. Page 5
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If you are not sure whether your card is PCI or AGP, compare its bottom edge with the following illustration: PCI Universal AGP Ifyouplantouse more thanonemonitor,youmustinstall acard for each monitor. Repeat steps 6 and 7 for each card. Close the computer case. 6 Connect the monitor cable to the card. 7 If you have a VGA monitor, connect it to the VGA monitor port. If you have a TV, connect it to the TV Out port. If you have a digital flat panel, connect it to the DVI-I port. ™ ® To connect an
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Powered Apple monitors using the ADC (Apple Display Connector) is not supported. NOTE Page 7
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About Monitor Sensing Apple’s Monitor Sensing specification allows video display ™ ® cards to identify the attached monitor. The RADEON MAC EDITION auto-configures itself according to the monitor sense code detected and enables all resolutions supported by the ™ ® monitor. Since the RADEON MAC EDITION relies on this sense code to correctly auto-configure during startup, the monitor must supply the appropriate sense code. ™ ® On VGA monitors, the RADEON MAC EDITION card uses the Display Data Chan
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For more information about obtaining a sense code or synchronization signal adapter, contact ATI Customer Support or ask your dealer. For information about how to contact ATI Customer Support, select the Support button on the ATI Displays control panel. Page 9
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3 Installing Your Software About ATI Software ™ ® The RADEON MAC EDITION requires several additional components be added to your System folder. The ATI ™ ® RADEON MAC EDITION Installer application does this for you, installing the following components: ATI Displays Control Panel The ATI Displays control panel lets you configure your card and access software and hardware features. These features are described in the section “ATI Displays Control Panel” on page 15. ATI Multimedia Components ATI’s
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Installing Software Insert the ATI Installation CD. 1 ™ ® 2 Double-click on the RADEON MAC EDITION Installer icon. The ATI splash and legal notice screens appear. 3 Follow the instructions that appear on the screen. Upon completion of the installation process, a file containing a list of installed files and their location on your hard disk is created allowing you to locate any file installed during the installation process. The installer application checks your system to determine if you have th
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4 Multimedia Features ™ ® Your RADEON MAC EDITION turns your Mac computer into a 3D and 2D graphics powerhouse. You can use your new graphics accelerator card to do the following: Experience the latest arcade style and virtual reality games the way they were meant to be played with state-of-the-art 3D graphics using OpenGL acceleration. Enjoy true-color 32-bit 2D or 3D graphics up to 1920x1440. Watch full screen, full motion, TV-quality video using QuickTime playback acceleration. Output
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Viewing 3D Graphics ™ ® RADEON MAC EDITION’s 3D Acceleration features supports the following advanced 3D graphics capabilities: OpengGL Support QuickDraw 3D Rave Support Integrated Transformation, Clipping and Lighting Twin Cache Architecture Single Pass Multi-texturing Triangle Setup Engine Bilinear/Trilinear Filtering Line & Edge Anti-aliasing Full Screen Anti-aliasing Specular Highlights Perspectively Correct Texture Mapping Mip-Mapping Z-buffering and Double-bufferi
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ATI Displays Control Panel The ATI Displays control panel provides access to the advanced ™ ® 3D features that RADEON MAC EDITION has to offer. To open the ATI Displays control panel, choose Control Panels from the Apple menu, then choose ATI Displays, or choose ATI Displays from the ATI Config Menu from the Mac OS menu bar. For detailed instructions on how to set up and use these features, please refer to the ATI Guide/ATI Help, which can be accessed through the ATI Displays control panel. Stat
