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.

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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.