ATI Technologies RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION User manual

RADEON™7000 MAC®EDITION
User’s Guide
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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. Your new graphics accelerator provides:
• Flexible dual-display support enabling many combinations
utilizing the VGA, DVI-I, and TV connectors
• OpenGL®and QuickDraw 3D accelerator providing
superior 3D rendering performance and advanced imaging
and filtering techniques
• QuickTime playback accelerator for full screen, full
motion, TV quality video
• DVI-I support for digital flat panels
• TV-Out support via S-Video connector
The easy-to-access, easy-to-use ATI Config Menu (available
only with Mac OS 9.2.1), on the menu bar, provides access to
ATI Guide, giving you instant access to help, and the ATI
Displays control panel, providing quick access to all of
RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION easy-to-use features such as
TV/Video Out. Specific help in Mac OS 9 can be accessed from
the Apple Help in the menu bar.
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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 5.0 (earlier versions are NOT supported)
• Minimum 32MB of system memory required for Mac OS 9
• Minimum 128MB of system memory required for
Mac OS X
OpenGL 1.2.2 or higher is required to obtain full 3D graphics
functionality in Mac OS 9 applications. OpenGL 1.2.2 is only
available from Apple as part of Mac OS 9.2.1.
Apple analog monitors without a VGA connector must use a
third party adapter to connect to the RADEON 7000 MAC
EDITION graphic accelerator.
Apple branded digital flat panels with an ADC connector must
use a third party adapter.
Future references to Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X in this manual
are intended to be generic and inclusive of their respective
version of the Macintosh operating systems.
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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. RADEON Help can be found in the Apple Help menu.
Help is available in Mac OS X by simply clicking on the
button. You can browse through the Help or search for a specific
topic.

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Multimedia Features
Your RADEON 7000 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:
• Enjoy true-color 32-bit 2D or 3D graphics up to 2048x1536
• Watch full screen, full motion, TV-quality video using
QuickTime playback acceleration
• Output your Mac’s display to a digital flat panel
• Output your Mac’s display to your TV
The following information describes these new features in more
detail and suggests ways you can optimize your machine to get
the most out of your new card.
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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
These features make it possible to quickly render 3D graphics,
produce atmospheric effects, calculate light and color shading,
and determine which objects are in the foreground and which
are in the background.
RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION only displays 3D graphics in
thousands and millions of colors. When you use 256 colors,
there are too few colors to display complex 3D textures, so 3D
acceleration is not supported.
You can use the 3D Memory Monitor to see how memory on
your RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION is allocated when displaying
3D graphics. This allows you to optimize 3D performance.
The 3D Memory Monitor is only supported in Mac OS 9.
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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.
Status Area
Look in the Status Area to determine your current monitor,
screen resolution, and color depth. To change display click on
the appropriate RADEON 7000 button. To change these settings
use the Monitors feature to open the Monitors control panel.
You can also change the monitor depth and resolutions at any
time using the Apple control strip, if installed.

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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. You cannot
make any changes to the generic video card using ATI Displays.
Display Details
The Details window gives you information about specific
software components needed to enable each of RADEON 7000
MAC EDITION’s features. Check the Details window to
determine the files and version numbers of the software
components installed in your System Folder during the
installation process. Using the pull-down menu, the Details
window also lists the Mac OS multimedia software required for
RADEON 7000 MAC EDITION, such as QuickDraw 3D and
OpenGL.