RADEON™ 7000 MAC® EDITION User’s Guide P/N: 137-40298-20 Copyright © 2002, ATI Technologies Inc. All rights reserved. ATI and all ATI product and product feature names 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 owners. Features, performance and specifications are subject to change without notice. Product may not be exactly as shown in the diagrams.
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1 Introduction The RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION represents the next generation in 3D and video acceleration for your Power Macintosh computer. It includes 32MB of DDR memory for fast 32-bit true color 3D graphics. Flexible dual-display support for multiple combinations of CRT monitors, TVs and video devices is included.
What You'll Need The RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION runs with the following minimum system requirements: • Any Power Macintosh computer with a PCI (66MHz or 33MHz) expansion slot • Mac OS 9.0 or Mac OS X version 10.1 • OpenGL 1.2.2 (required for 3D graphics) • Apple monitor, VGA-style monitor (see note below), DVI-I style digital flat panel, or TV • QuickTime 5.
Related Documentation The README file summarizes the latest product revisions. Click the README icon on the installation disk to open this file. The RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION comes with ATI Guide for Mac OS 9, which provides on-line help for making the best use of your card’s features. There are two methods of accessing the ATI Guide. From the Mac OS menu bar under the ATI icon choose ATI Guide. From the ATI Displays control panel, you can access the ATI Guide by clicking on the Apple Guide icon.
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2 Multimedia Features Your RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION turns your Mac computer into a 3D and 2D graphics powerhouse.
Viewing 3D Graphics RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION’s 3D Acceleration features supports the following advanced 3D graphics capabilities: • OpenGL Support • QuickDraw 3D Rave Support • Twin Cache Architecture • Single Pass Multi-texturing • Triangle Setup Engine • Bilinear/Trilinear Filtering • Line Anti-aliasing • Specular Highlights • Perspectively Correct Texture Mapping • Mip-Mapping • Z-buffering and Double-buffering • Spherical, Dual-Paraboloid, 3D Texturing and Cubic environment mapping
ATI Displays Control Panel For Mac OS 9 The ATI Displays control panel provides access to the advanced 3D features that RADEON 7000 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 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.
Identify Displays If you have more than one display connected to your computer, you can identify and configure each display. The ATI Displays control panel identifies all the displays connected to your computer, but only configures displays that are connected to ATI cards. If you are using multiple monitors and using one display with the built-in video, or a non-ATI video card, a generic video card icon is displayed in the ATI Displays control panel.
Monitors The Monitors feature provides access to the standard Mac OS Monitors control panel. You can use the Monitors control panel to select color depths and resolutions, and set up multiple monitors. For more information on the Monitors control panel refer to the Mac OS Guide that comes with your computer. Keyboard Shortcuts This feature allows you to use a pop-up menu to change your desktop settings without exiting your current application.
VGA Monitors If you have a non-DDC-compliant VGA monitor connected to your RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION, the VGA icon may be active. Some VGA monitors use a Display Data Channel (DDC). You do not have to do anything extra to select the supported resolutions. Your RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION uses the DDC information to automatically provide the supported resolutions in the Monitors control panel and the Control Strip.
3D Memory Monitor The 3D Memory Monitor shows how available memory in the accelerator card is allocated when displaying 3D graphics. Using the 3D Memory Monitor When you open 3D graphics on your Mac OS computer, run the 3D Memory Monitor to see how your RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION has allocated 3D memory. To open the 3D Memory Monitor 1 Choose Control Panels from the Apple Menu, or choose ATI Displays from the ATI Config Menu and skip to step 3. 2 Select ATI Displays. 3 Click on the 3D Memory icon.
Display The Screen bar indicates the amount of graphics memory is allocated to the display’s resolution and color depth. The Desktop Pattern bar indicates the amount of memory used by your desktop pattern. To reduce the memory allocated to Display memory: • change the color depth from millions to thousands • decrease your screen resolution Textures The Texture bar indicates the number and size of texture maps loaded by 3D applications to add realism to 3D models and environments.
ATI HELP ATI HELP is an additional source of information when you are using the ATI Displays control panel. Access the ATI HELP by clicking on the Apple HELP icon on the ATI Displays control panel, or the ATI Config Menu. From the ATI DISPLAYS GUIDE select RADEON then OPEN RADEON HELP. Finally, select ATI HELP from the HELP CENTER. Select a topic from the main ATI HELP window to get detailed instructions for a specific task.
Using QuickTime Playback The RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION’s QuickTime playback acceleration allows you to stretch even the smallest movies to full screen size without compromising frame rate or image quality. RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION’s hardware scaler maintains the original quality of your QuickTime movie when scaling to a larger size – even full screen. When the monitor is set to display in grayscale (Mac OS 9 only), QuickTime movies are not accelerated, nor are they converted to color.
Using Mac2TV™ Video Out In Mac OS 9 The RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION’s Mac2TV Video Out feature allows you to output your computer’s display to your TV or VCR. Anything you can display on your monitor can be output to TV.
Composite Connector Video Out Connector Video Out Adapter 5 If your are using S-Video connection to the TV, attach one end of an S-Video cable to the S-Video Out connection of the RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION and the other end to the S-Video In connector of your TV. If you are using Composite, connect the supplied Video Out Adapter to the S-Video connector of the RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION.
NOTE Now that you have connected your RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION to a TV, you need to enable Mac2TV. For more information, see “Enabling Mac2TV” on page 18. To connect your computer’s display to a VCR to record to video tape 1 Turn off your computer and VCR. 2 Ensure your RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION is installed correctly. 3 Looking at the back of your Mac, locate your RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION. 4 Determine if your VCR has an S-Video or Composite video input connection.
NOTE If you are connecting your RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION to a VCR, make sure that your VCR is connected to a television that you can use as your computer’s display. For information about connecting a television to your VCR, see the documentation supplied with your VCR. Now that you have connected your RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION to a VCR, you need to enable Mac2TV. Enabling Mac2TV 1 Open the ATI Displays control panel. 2 The Video Output will already be set to On.
Changing Display Configurations Using a TV as your only display If you are using television display only, disconnect your monitor from your RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION. The RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION detects that you have a TV attached and automatically starts with Mac2TV display enabled. Optimizing Mac2TV You can optimize your TV display using the video out preferences. Viewing images on your TV can be improved by changing the contrast, brightness, or size of your display.
• Brightness is related to the amount of light emitted by your display or reflected from an object. This quality enables you to describe an object as “bright” or “dim”. Hue is generally not adjusted. Depending on the TV, however, it may be necessary or desirable to adjust the hue to approximate the monitor’s display. Anti-Flicker reduces the amount of display flicker. Display flicker is both a distraction and tiring to your eyes, and is most pronounced when text is being displayed.
To change your font size in Mac OS 9 1 Click the Apple menu. 2 Select Control Panels. 3 Select Views. 4 Choose a larger font size. To change your font size in Mac OS X 1 Click the Apple menu. 2 Select System Preferences. 3 Select General. 4 Choose a larger font size.
ATI Displays Control Panel for Mac OS X The ATI Displays control panel provides access to the advanced features that RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION has to offer. To open the ATI Displays control panel: 1 Click on Finder 2 Click on Applications folder 3 Click on Utilities folder 4 Click on ATI Utilities folder 5 Click on ATI Displays For detailed instructions on how to set up and use these features, please refer to ATI Help, which can be accessed through the ATI Displays control panel.
From the ATI Displays drop down menu you can set the Preferences for the ATI Displays control panel. Here you can determine the location and position of the ATI Displays control panel on Startup. You can also configure how ATI Displays control panel exits. ATI HELP ATI HELP is an additional source of information when you are using the ATI Displays control panel. To access the ATI HELP, click on the icon on the ATI Displays control panel.
Using Mac2TV™ Video Out In Mac OS X To connect your TV to the RADEON 7000 see “To output your computer’s display to a TV” on page 15. Enabling Mac2TV 1 Open the ATI Displays control panel. 2 Click on the TV button. 3 In the Video Output box, click Video Output On. NOTE A TV cannot be left connected to the graphics card if two analog monitors are connected to the RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION, even if the TV is off and not enabled in the software.
Using Digital Flat Panel (DVI-I) RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION’s DVI-I support feature allows you to output your computer’s display to your DVI-I digital flat panel, providing you with: • Crisper, clearer images. • A true flat screen. • Virtually no eye strain from prolonged viewing. Using RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION DVI-I Connector Your RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION includes support for DVI-I. You can use this feature to connect your RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION to a digital flat panel display.
6 Attach one end of your DVI-I cable to the DVI-I connector on your RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION and the other end to the DVI-I connector on your DVI-I flat panel. 7 Turn on your Mac and your DVI-I flat panel. NOTE NOTE Page 26 The RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION does not support a TV connection when a VGA monitor is connected to the DVI-I connector via the DVI-I-to-VGA adapter. A third party adapter is required to support Apple branded digital flat panels with an ADC connector.
A Specifications Video Mode Table The video mode table below lists the color depth capabilities for the supported resolutions on your RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION. Please consult your monitor’s specifications to determine which resolutions are available with your display. Mac OS 2D Resolutions for Apple Fixed Frequency Display Display Resolution Vertical Refresh Hz Horizontal Refresh kHz Fixed Mac OS Monitor Size 512 x 384 640 x 480 640 x 870 832 x 624 1024 x 768 1152 x 870 60 67 75 75 75 75 24.48 35.
Display Resolution 800 x 600 832 x 624 1024 x 768 1152 x 870 1280 x 960 1280 x 1024 1600 x 1024 1600 x 1200 1792 x 1344 1856 x1392 1920 x 1080 1920 x 1200 1920 x 1440 2048 x 1536 Page 28 Vertical Refresh Hz Horizontal Refresh kHz 56 60 72 75 85 90 100 120 75 60 70 75 85 90 100 120 75 75 60 75 85 76 60 65 70 75 85 60 75 60 75 60 72 76 60 60 35.16 37.85 48.08 46.88 53.67 56.88 63.60 77.16 77.16 48.36 56.48 60.24 68.68 72.81 81.40 98.76 68.68 75.00 63.98 79.98 91.38 81.32 75.00 81.25 87.50 93.
3D Mode Table The 3D mode table measures the number of full screen 3D windows that are possible to display at a given resolution. For example, a value of 2.75 means that there is enough memory left over in the current mode to run 2 full screen 3D windows and another at 3/4 the size of full screen. A value of 0.40 means that largest 3D window will be just less than 1/2 the size of full screen. In the following table, 3D windows are considered to use a back buffer and z-buffer.
NOTE This table reflects 3D performance when one display is connected to the RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION. Attaching a second display will reduce the number of full screen 3D applications as the video memory is set to 16MB per display. The resolution, colors, and refresh rates are based on popular display settings. Other settings are possible depending on the monitor. The above tables are subject to change.
Specifications System Requirements • Power Macintosh computer with a PCI(66MHz or 3 MHz) expansion slot Operating System • Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X version 10.1 • QuickTime (version 5.0 or higher) • Apple OpenGL 1.2.2 or higher Graphics Controller • ATI RADEON 7000 — graphics and multimedia accelerator chip Video Display Buffer • 32MB memory • 256-bit memory interface Bus • PCI: 32-bit PCI local bus compliant with PCI version 2.
Display Connector • DVI-I connector VGA Connector - Standard VGA Monitors with Apple connectors are supported using the Apple-to-VGA video adapter. • S-Video Out (Composite Out adapter included) Video Interrupt • PCI interrupt request enabled; interrupt is auto-configured by system Power • +5V ± 5 %, @ 1.3A typical Environment • Ambient Temperature: 50° to 122° F (10° to 50° C) operation.
B Compliance Information FCC Compliance Information This device is in conformity with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation of this product is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules.
Industry Canada Compliance Statement ICES-003 This Class B digital apparatus meets all requirements of the Canadian Interference-Causing Equipment Regulations. Cet appareil numérique de la Classe B Respecte toutes les exigences du Règlement sur le matérial brouiller du Canada.
(EN 55022/CISPR 22, Beschränkungen und Verfahren der Messung von informationstechnischen Ausrüstungen mit Funkstörmerkmalen) Warnung: Dies ist ein Erzeugnis der Klasse B. Dieses Erzeugnis kann Funkstörungen im Wohnbereich verursachen; in diesem Fall können entsprechende Maßnahmen seitens des Benutzers erforderlich sein. EN 50082-1.
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C Glossary Alpha blending When an image has an alpha value for each pixel, this tells how much to blend the colors from the image with the background colors. The lower the alpha values the more transparent the image looks. Anti-aliasing Method used to remove the jagginess of an image. When anti-aliasing is used, the edges of an image appear smooth and usually somewhat blurry. Back buffer A type of offscreen memory used to provide smooth video and 2D graphics acceleration.
Color Depth Color depth is the number of color shades available on your display. The color depth of your monitor usually includes; 256 colors (8-bpp), Thousands of colors (16-bpp), and Millions of colors (32-bpp), and is also measured in bits per pixel (bpp). You can switch your color depth using the ATI Popup Menu, Apple’s Control Strip, or the Monitors control panel. Higher bit-depths require more display buffer memory.
Texture Mapping Mapping, or placing, an image onto an object. Images of realistic surfaces are placed on 3D models to create a richer and more complex visual effect. Trilinear Filtering Sampling method used to produce the most realistic looking 3D objects. Trilinear filtering averages one of the bilinear filter MIP Map levels along with the standard MIP Map samples. z-buffer A z-buffer is an area of off-screen memory used to hold “depth” information.
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