ATI Technologies RADEON 9200 MAC EDITION User manual

ATI
RADEON™ 9200 MAC
EDITION
User’s Guide
P/N 137-40722-10

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Table of Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
System Requirements 1
External Connections 1
Related Documentation 2
Multimedia Features 2
Viewing 3D Graphics 2
ATI Displays Control Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Introduction 5
Open the ATI Displays control panel using
Mac OS® X 5
ATI Displays Control Panel 6
Mac2TV™ Video Out 6
Connect your computer to a TV/VCR 7
Enabling Mac2TV™ 8
Set Up Tab 8
Optimizing Mac2TV™ 9
Controls Tab 10
Ratio/Size Tab 11
Using a TV as your only display 12
Viewing Text on Television 12
ATI Displays Preferences 12
Advanced Display Options 13
VERSAVISION™ Tab 13
Display Control Tab 14
Advanced DFP Tab 15
Performance Tab 16
ATI HELP 16
Using DVD and QuickTime® Playback 17
Using Digital Flat Panel (DVI) 17
Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Video Mode Table 19
Digital Flat Panel 20
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

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Compliance Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
FCC Compliance Information 25
Industry Canada Compliance Statement 25
CE Compliance Information 26
L’Information de conformité de la CE 26
CE-befolgungInformationen 26
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

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CHAPTER 1:
Introduction
The RADEON™ 9200 MAC EDITION represents the next generation in
3D and video acceleration for your Power Macintosh® computer. It
includes flexible dual-display support for multiple combinations of CRT
and Digital Flat Panel monitors. Your new graphics accelerator provides:
• Flexible dual-display support enabling many combinations utilizing
VGA and DVI connectors for analog and digital displays.
• OpenGL® accelerator providing superior 3D rendering
performance and advanced imaging and filtering techniques.
• Industry leading DVD acceleration for High Bitrate, low CPU
usage, playback of the latest movies at any resolution.
• QuickTime® playback accelerator for full screen, full motion, DVD
quality video.
• TV-Out support via S-Video connector.
System Requirements
External Connections
• 15-pin D-shell (female) VGA output.
• DVI-I output.
• S-Video output.
Note: Connecting a second VGA monitor requires a DVI-to-VGA
Hardware • Any Power Macintosh® computer with an PCI
expansion slot.
• QuickTime® 6 or higher.
• Minimum 128MB of system memory required for Mac
OS® X version 10.x.
Operating
System • Mac OS® X version 10.2.8 and 10.3.3 or higher.
Monitor • VGA-style monitor (see note below), DVI style digital
flat panel, Apple® ADC style digital flat panel (using a
third party powered adapter) or Apple® multi-
frequency monitor.

2 Related Documentation
adapter (included) to connect to the RADEON™ 9200 MAC
EDITION graphics accelerator.
Note: Future references to Mac OS® X in this manual are intended
to be generic and inclusive of their respective versions of the
Macintosh® operating systems.
Related Documentation
The README file summarizes the latest product revisions. Click the
README icon on the installation disk to open this file.
Help is available by clicking on the button in the ATI Displays control
panel or through the Apple® Help Center. You can browse through the
Help or search for a specific topic.
Multimedia Features
Your RADEON™ 9200 MAC EDITION turns your Mac computer into a
3D and 2D graphics powerhouse. You can use your new graphics
accelerator card to:
• Enjoy true-color 32-bit 2D or 3D graphics up to 2048 x 1536.
• Watch full screen, full motion, DVD quality video using the
Apple® DVD Player or QuickTime® playback acceleration.
• Output your Mac’s display to digital flat panels and digital
projectors.
• Output your Mac’s display to a TV.
The following information describes these features in more detail and
suggests ways you can optimize your machine to get the most out of your
new card.
Viewing 3D Graphics
RADEON™ 9200 MAC EDITION’s 3D Acceleration features supports
the following advanced 3D graphics capabilities:
• 4 pixel pipeline architecture.
• 128 bit memory interface.
• Hardware accelerated vertex and pixel shaders.
• Hardware accelerated Transform and Lighting.

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• 62.5 million triangles per second transform rate.
• Full Scene Antialiasing.
• Bilinear, Trilinear, and Anisotropic filtering.
In addition, the RADEON™ 9200 MAC EDITION brings new and
exciting graphics technologies to the Macintosh® platform:
SMOOTHVISION™ is an anti-aliasing solution that raises the bar for
image quality using programmable multi-sampling methods to post-
process graphics before they are displayed.
SMARTSHADER™ is a new technology which revolutionizes the
graphics pipeline by making both the geometry processing and pixel
processing stages more programmable than ever before. Developers can
easily create amazing new graphics effects while maintaining a high level
of performance.
HYPER Z™ makes Z-buffer bandwidth usage more efficient by
decreasing the amount of information sent to the frame buffer.
RADEON™ 9200 MAC EDITION only displays 3D graphics in thousands
and millions of colors. When you set your display to 256 colors, this will
affect Finder™, OpenGL®, Quartz® Extreme, and QuickTime®
acceleration.

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Introduction 5
CHAPTER 2:
ATI Displays Control Panel
Introduction
The ATI Displays control panel provides access to the advanced features
that the RADEON™ 9200 MAC EDITION has to offer.
Open the ATI Displays control panel using
Mac OS® X
1 Open the Apple® System Preferences.
2 Click the ATI Displays icon.
or
1 Click the Hard Disk icon.
2 Click Applications folder.
3 Click Utilities folder.
4 Click ATI Utilities folder.
5 Double-click 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.

6 Mac2TV™ Video Out
ATI Displays Control Panel
Display Info dialog shows the current display settings of the specific
monitor ATI Displays is running on.
Detect Displays button detects all connected displays. This feature is
useful when a second VGA monitor is connected to your graphics adaptor.
Detect Display removes the need to restart your computer.
Note: Your display will momentarily go blank while all connected
devices are being detected.
The Profile dialog presents information on the specific RADEON™
graphics card and video driver installed in your computer. Even if ATI
Displays cannot identify your ATI product it will still provide display
configuration, driver version and other related information. A warning
dialog will display if no ATI product is installed in your computer.
The Support dialog provides an internet link to ATI Technologies’ web
site.
Click Create Apple® System Profiler Report button to generate a
detailed report of the computer’s installed hardware and software.
Mac2TV™ Video Out
The RADEON™ 9200 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.

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• View computer output directly on your television with advanced
flicker reduction and artifact suppression.
• Connect using Composite or S-Video output capabilities.
• RADEON™ 9200 MAC EDITION provides a big-screen
experience for playing games, giving presentations, and browsing
the Internet.
Connect your computer to a TV/VCR
1 Turn off your computer and TV/VCR.
2 Ensure your RADEON™ 9200 MAC EDITION is installed correctly.
3 Determine if your TV/VCR has an S-Video or Composite video input
connection.
4 Looking at the back of your Mac, locate your RADEON™ 9200
MAC EDITION.
5 If you are using S-Video connection to the TV/VCR, attach one end
of an S-Video cable to the S-Video Out connection of the
RADEON™ 9200 MAC EDITION and the other end to the S-Video
AVideo Out Adapter
BS-Video Out Connector
CComposite Connector
DS-Video Input
A
A
BC
D

8 Enabling Mac2TV™
In connector of your TV/VCR. If you are using Composite, connect
the supplied Video Out Adapter to the S-Video connector of the
RADEON™ 9200 MAC EDITION. Then attach one end of your
Composite cable to the Composite connector and the other end to the
Composite In of your TV/VCR (see diagram above).
6 Turn on your TV/VCR then your computer.
Note: If you are connecting your RADEON™ 9200 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.
Note: Using ATI Displays “Detect Displays” or “Detect Video
Device” allows you to connect a TV while the computer is on without
having to restart.
Enabling Mac2TV™
Open the ATI Displays control panel. The TV Set-up dialog will open
automatically on the TV. (This default can be changed in the ATI Displays
Preferences. For more information see ATI Diplays preferences below).
Set Up Tab
Video Output shows whether a TV or VCR has been detected. Select
Always Connected to over-ride this feature and force TV detection. Video
Output will display Device Detected (Off) or Device Detected (On)
depending on whether TV mode is selected.

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OutputStandardallows youtoselect andrestrict theTV standardforyour
country. The default setting is NTSC/PAL which allows both standards.
Black & White, when enabled, forces Black & White output. The video
card produces greys instead ofcolors in the output signal producing sharper
images and text.
Extra Set up: Hard Sync to TV, when enabled, removes a black line that
may appear at the bottom of the screen of high end TV equipment. This
process slightly alters the color across the screen. This color alteration may
or may not be visible.
Unless you notice a black line on your TV screen, it is recommended to
leave Hard Sync to TV disabled.
Detect Video Device allows you detect a TV or VCR without restarting
your computer. This option is only present when no TV is detected.
Turn Video On/Off button allows you to enable or disable TV output
without using Apple®’s Displays panel. This option only appears when
running a merged mode list or you have two displays plus TV connected.
Note: Your display will momentarily go blank when enabling/
disabling any of the above features.
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.
To set the video out preferences, click the Mac2TV™ icon on the ATI
Displays Control Panel then click the Controls tab.

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Controls Tab
Sharpness makes details on the TV screen sharper. Use this setting to
make blurry text readable.
Frozen Dot Crawl, when enabled, removes the undesirable characteristic
of many Composite televisions that is seen as thin, jagged edges moving
around objects on the screen. It is especially useful for viewing pictures or
stills. S-Video equipment does not exhibit this effect.
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.
Brightness is related to the amount of light emitted by your display or
reflected from an object.
Contrast is a ratio of how far the whitest whites are from the blackest
blacks. If the contrast is too high, the image may look stark, like pure white
squares on a jet-black background. If the contrast is too low, the image may
look gray or washed out.
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.
Hue,saturation, andbrightness arethethree qualitieswhich constitutewhat
we normally refer to as “color”.
•Hue, often used as a synonym for “color”, is the quality that
distinguishes among red, green, yellow, and so on.

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•Saturation is the amount of color present that distinguishes pale or
washed-out colors from vivid ones. Extreme settings, will produce
black & white (greyscale) output.
Defaultbutton undoes all changes and sets everythingto thefactory default
settings.
Revert button undoes all changes and sets everything to the original state
or last known good setting.
Ratio/Size Tab
The Ratio/Size tab allows you to adjust the Aspect Ratio and change the
display size and position.
AspectRatioallows you to select between a fully adjustable display or one
locked to a specific aspect ratio. 4:3 Standard, 16.9 Widescreen, and
Current screen resolution are all fixed modes.
Overscan increases the vertical and horizontal size to fill your TV.
Movie Mode gives you the best results viewing TV or DVDs.
Display Position allows you to move the TV/VCR image on your display.
Use the arrow buttons to locate the image to the desired position.
Display Size allows you to increase or decrease the size of the TV/VCR
image on your display.
Defaultbutton undoes all changes and sets everythingto thefactory default
settings.

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Revert button undoes all changes and sets everything to the original state
or last known good setting.
Using a TV as your only display
If you are using television display only, disconnect your monitor from your
RADEON™ 9200 MAC EDITION. The RADEON™ 9200 MAC
EDITIONdetectsthat youhave aTV attachedand automatically startswith
Mac2TV™ display enabled.
Note: Your TV may display a black image while starting your
computer for a longer period of time than a CRT or DVI display.
Viewing Text on Television
Due to the different technology used in the manufacturing of televisions
and monitors, standard text may look too small on your television. You can
compensate for this by using larger fonts.
To change your font size
1 Click the Apple® menu.
2 Select System Preferences.
3 Select General.
4 Choose a larger font size.
ATI Displays Preferences

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From the ATI Displays drop down menu you can set the Preferences for the
ATI Displays control panel. Here you can configure how the ATI Displays
control panel starts and exits.
Advanced Display Options
Advanced adds even more functionality, giving you complete control over
your display.
To access the Advanced feature open the ATI Displays control panel and
click the ADVANCED button.
VERSAVISION™ Tab
VERSAVISION™ allows youto rotateyourdisplaywhile maintaining the
full feature set of other ATI 2D and 3D technologies. ATI’s hardware
accelerated display rotation and scaling technology allows for rotation left
or right by 90 degrees or turn it upside down to a full 180 degree rotation.
Relative Rotation allows you to rotate the contents of your display.
Hovering the mouse cursor over a direction button will show you a preview
of the change. Clicking the desired rotation button will cause the display to
refresh and rotate.
Full 3D support is maintained regardless of rotation selected.
Default button disables Relative Rotation.
Revert button undoes all changes and sets everything to the original state
or last known good setting.

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Display Control Tab
Force Single Display Operation, when using a dual display video card,
causes all display modes to appear as a single list of supported resolutions
in the Apple® Displays Properties.
Only one display is on when this feature is enabled. The default setting is
Disabled.
Enable GTF Modes for CRT provides a list of all available modes for
your monitor based on the Generalized Timing Formula standard. This
feature is enabled by default.
Enable ATI “Valid” and “Safe” flags in mode list, when enabled, allows
the video card to determine which video modes are valid and safe.
Enable Hot Plug Detection allows the operating system to automatically
detect when a display is connected to the computer and allows the use of
“DetectDisplays” buttonfor otherdevices.This removestheneed torestart
the computer after attaching a secondary display.
Defaultbutton undoes all changes and sets everythingto thefactory default
settings.
Apply button causes all the selected options to be enabled at one time.

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Advanced DFP Tab
Note: The features on this tab are intended to support Digital Flat
Panels (DFP) only.
Enable ATI Hardware Scaler on non-Apple panels can be used with flat
panels with fixed resolutions. Enabled, this feature allows you to change
video modes using the ATI Scaler.
Enable frequency reduction on high resolution displays allows higher
RADEON™ 9200 MAC EDITION.)
Default button undoes all changes and sets everything back to the original
factory settings.
Apply button enables all the selected options at one time.

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Performance Tab
The Performance tab provides advanced control settings that mat improve
overall performance.
Enable High Performance PCI Bus Settings may improve graphics
rendering performance.
Note: This feature may impact the performance of other devices
installed in the computer.
Make Settings Persistent makes the performance settings permanent.
Default restores the factory settings for the Performance tab.
Apply activates and saves the settings for the Performance tab.
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.