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  • Page 1 3DImàge985 High Performance 3D/2D GUI/Video Accelerator User’s Guide...
  • Page 2 NOTICE The information in this document is subject to change in order to improve reliability, design, or function without prior notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of the company. In no event will the company be liable for direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages arising out of the use or the inability to use the product or documentation, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

  • Page 3: Trademark Acknowledgments

    Trident Microsystems, Inc. 3DImàge985 User’s Guide Trident Microsystems, Inc. assumes no responsibility for the use of any circuit other than circuits embodied in an Trident Microsystems, Inc. product. No other circuit patent licenses are implied. AutoCAD and Autoshade are trademarks of Autodesk, Inc.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents INTRODUCTION ................3 ................. 3 OMPATIBILITY ................3 HECK .................. 4 EATURES 1.3.1 Resolution and Color Selection ......... 4 1.3.2 3D and 2D GUI Accelerator..........5 1.3.3 VESA DPMS and VESA DDC2B supported ....... 5 1.3.4 Software MPEG Video Playback ........5 1.3.5 Virtual Screen ..............
  • Page 5 ........... 53 NALOG OLOR ISPLAY INOUTS ........54 ONVERSION ABLE DAPTERS ............54 NALOG IDEO IGNALS APPENDIX C: FCC COMPLIANCE STATEMENT ....55 FCC W ................ 55 ARNING...

  • Page 6: Windows 95 Display Driver Installation

    SELECT “OK” to start installing the driver files from the diskette drive. SELECT “OK” button to close the “SELECT DEVICE” window. CLOSE the Display Properties window and Windows 95 will prompt you to restart Windows 95. Windows 95 will be using the Trident accelerated driver once it’s re-started.
  • Page 7 "A:\NT40" after you have inserted the Drivers & Utilities Diskette # 3 into your floppy drive A. If the driver "Trident Video Accelerator" is listed under the Display list, SELECT the "OK" button to continue. Once the driver files are copied, RESTART Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 for the changes to take effect.

  • Page 8: Introduction

    Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) bus slot. 1.2 Check List The package you have purchased should contain the following: þ Trident 3DImàge985 AGP 3D/2D GUI Accelerator Adapter Card þ 3D Games sampler CD þ One Windows 3.x Driver Diskette þ...

  • Page 9: Features

    1.3 Features þ Supports up to 133MHz AGP with sidebands and pipelining. þ Supports PCI 2.1 specification including 66MHz operations. þ Supports extensive high-performance 3D functionality. þ Accelerates the most frequently used 2D GUI/video operations þ Supports up to 1600x1200x64k Hi-colors mode using 4MB of SGRAM on board.

  • Page 10: And 2D Gui Accelerator

    1.3.2 3D 2D GUI A CCELERATOR Accelerates the most frequently used 2D functions in today’s graphics- intensive environments plus complete 3D GUI acceleration: þ Complete 3D primitive support þ Texture mapping þ Gouraud Shading for smooth shading þ Alpha blending for transparency effects þ...

  • Page 11: Dci And Directdraw Supported

    1.3.6 DCI IRECT UPPORTED Supports DCI for Windows 3.1x and DirectDraw for Windows 95 for enhancement of display quality and playback performance during software MPEG video playback. Both DCI for Windows 3.1x and DirectDraw for Windows 95 are memory manger for video memory. Using such memory manager for video manger, a program can manipulate video memory with ease, taking full advantage of the blitting and color decompressing capabilities of 3DImàge985’s video hardware.

  • Page 12: Adapter Installation

    2. Adapter Installation 2.1 Adapter Layout CON5 Connector Composite Feature TV Out 256Kx32 Connector 256x32 CON4 SGRAM SGRAM S-video TV Out 256Kx32 256x32 SGRAM SGRAM 3DIm àg e9850 BIOS Figure 2-1. 3DImàge985 AGP card with Output to TV...

  • Page 13: Installation Procedures

    2.2 Installation Procedures To install the adapter into your system, follow these steps: 1. Turn OFF all power to your system, including any peripherals (printer, external drives, modem, etc.). 2. Disconnect the power cord and the monitor cable from the back of the computer.

  • Page 14: Connecting The Display And Optional Tv

    2.3 Connecting the Display and Optional TV Back of Computer Composite S-Video Speaker Output Jack TV Connector TV Connector (Sound Card) Connector Power Keyboard Color Monitor Television Set Composite Video Input (optional) S-Video Input Audio Input (optional) (optional) 1. The adapter offers a standard VGA 15-pin analog connector. When you connect your monitor to the adapter, be sure you have the right cable and cable connector.

  • Page 15: Utilities And Drivers Installation

    1. ENSURE that MS Windows 95 is up and running properly using the Trident SVGA driver that it has detected. 2. Insert the Trident Display Driver CD into your CD-ROM drive. 3. SELECT your CD-ROM drive or TYPE in X:\SETUP (X is the letter of your CD-ROM drive) under Start…...
  • Page 16 3. SELECT the “Display” icon and then SELECT the “Settings” page (refer to Figure 3-2). Figure 3-2.
  • Page 17 Adapter Type (refer to Figure 3-3). Figure 3-3. 5. On the “Select Device” page, SELECT the “Have Disk” button to install the Trident display driver from Disk 2 of the Drivers and Utilities diskette (refer to Figure 3-4). Figure 3-4.
  • Page 18 X: stands for the drive letter of your diskette drive in your system (refer to Figure 3-5). Figure 3-5. 7. Once in this directory, the file TRIDENT.INF will appear under file name list. SELECT “OK” to return to the “Install From Disk” window (see Figure 3-6). Under the statement “Copy manufacturer’s files from”, the line X:\WIN95 should...
  • Page 19 8. After the files have been copied from the diskette drive to the hard drive, a “Select device” window will appear as shown in Figure 3-7. Under Models, the line “Trident Imàge 985 (AGP v21xx)” will now be listed. Figure 3-7.
  • Page 20 9. SELECT the “OK” button to close the “Select Device” window and to select the “Color Palette”, “Desktop Area”, and “Refresh Rate” of your choice under the Trident accelerated driver (refer to Figure 3-8). Figure 3-8. Once the desired color palette (the number of colors), desktop area (resolution) and refresh rate have been chosen, the Windows 95 system will be re-started using the Trident accelerated driver.

  • Page 21: Microsoft Windows Nt 4.0 Driver Installation

    “X:\NT40” where X: is the drive where Disk 3 of the 3DImàge985 Drivers & Utilities diskette has been inserted. 6. If the driver “Trident Video Accelerator” is listed under the Display list, SELECT the “OK” button to continue. 7. Once the driver files are copied, RESTART Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 for the changes to take effect.

  • Page 22: Microsoft Windows 3.1X Driver Installation

    3.1.4 M ICROSOFT INDOWS RIVER NSTALLATION The graphic installation program (TINSTALL) supports a simple six-step installation procedure for the display driver setup program, the power management program and the UNinstall program. To use TINSTALL, follow the 6 steps below: þ 1.
  • Page 23 Installation. Express installation is quick and decision free. Display drivers will be copied into the TRIDENT.SGI directory and Utility files will be copied into the TRIDENT.UTL directory. Once all files are copied, a program group called DISPLAY DRIVER AND UTILITIES will be created.
  • Page 24 þ Screen Control (Used to configure display drivers). þ b. DPMS (Used for power management configurations). þ UNinstall (Used to delete the installed TRIDENT drivers). NOTE: Different “display driver set” versions cannot be installed to the same directory name. “Display driver sets” of the same version number (e.g. US6.x ) will replace the existing one.
  • Page 25 3.1.4.1.1 Configuring the Display Driver þ Select the color depth first. þ Select the resolution. þ Select the font size (if available as an option). þ Select the refresh rate. þ Click on OK. If the current driver does not support the selected configuration, Windows will have to be restarted.
  • Page 26 3.1.4.1.2 DDC Monitor Auto Detection If your monitor is a “PLUG & PLAY” monitor and is in compliance with VESA DDC2 Standard, the display driver will automatically detect the information provided by the DDC2 complaint monitor. If the display driver is not able to correctly detect the information provided by the monitor, a message will be displayed that allows you to: Accept it: The display driver will save the information from the DDC2 monitor that it was able to detect.
  • Page 27 If the display driver is able to detect the monitor successfully, the correct information will be shown once the button “DDC Monitor” in the Advanced page of the Screen Control panel is selected. Figure 3-13.

  • Page 28: Live Video Capture Driver

    3.2 Live Video Capture Driver Video Capture is the process of accepting video data from an outside source, such as TV tuner, VCR, Laser Disc Player or a Camcorder and writing it to the frame buffer. The data stored in the frame buffer can then be displayed on the monitor or stored in the hard disk drive.
  • Page 29 The 3DImàge985 AVI drivers can be installed by following these steps below: 1. SELECT the MAIN group in Program Manager. 2. CLICK on FILE or PRESS ALT + F 3. CLICK on RUN or PRESS R to select command line. 4.
  • Page 30 5. The Trident AVI Drivers Setup screen will appear. PRESS “Continue” to start installation (See Figure 3-15). Figure 3-15.
  • Page 31 6. The next screen will place Trident AVI Drivers in the directory “C:\WINDOWS\AVIDRV”. Change the path only if another directory is desired (see Figure 3-16). Click on “Continue” to complete the installation process of Trident AVI Drivers. Figure 3-16.
  • Page 32 3.2.1.1 Video capture driver usage 1. OPEN the “VidCap” program in the Video for Windows 1.1e program group. 2. TURN ON the video device that’s currently connected to the video-in port of the video capture board and PUSH the “Play” button on the video device to start sending video signals to the video capture board.
  • Page 33 4. CLICK on Video Source to set the source of the video signal (see Figure 3-18). Figure 3-18. 5. SET video source to ”Video” to begin displaying video in the overlay window.
  • Page 34 3.2.1.2 Video Overlay adjustments 1. In the VidCap program window, CLICK on “ Video Format” under Options to set screen size (see Figure 3-19). Figure 3-19.
  • Page 35 2. SELECT different Image Formats by clicking on one of choices under Image format selections (see Figure 3-20). While all five formats allow image dimensions of up to full screen size, only “Video Conference YUV 422” image format allows full screen size of 704x576. Figure 3-20.
  • Page 36 4. CLICK on the “Adjust Colors” button to make adjustments of brightness, contrast, saturation and hue. CLICK on “Configure Video” button to make adjustments on Overlay Key Control, Display X/Y Offset, and Capture X/Y Offset (see Figure 3-22). Figure 3-22.
  • Page 37 5. CLICK on “Overlay Key Control” to set VGA Color Key to a color key value other than the default. CLICK on “Display X/Y Offset” to adjust the video window within the overlay window. When the video window is centered, it will completely cover the overlay window (see Figure 3-23).

  • Page 38: Os/2 Driver Installation

    Trident OS/2 driver diskette was inserted. þ 4. At the drive prompt, TYPE the following command: “INSTALL”. The Trident LOGO will now appear and a screen that reads “Trident Display Drivers Setting” will appear after that. 3.3.1 D ISPLAYING OR...
  • Page 39 The first page of the Trident Display Drivers Settings window is labeled Screen Resolution selection page. þ SELECT the resolution and color depth þ ENABLE/DISABLE virtual screen The second page is the Monitor Model selection page. þ CLICK on Monitor tab to go to this page.

  • Page 40: Screen Resolution Configuration Procedure

    3.3.2 S CREEN ESOLUTION ONFIGURATION ROCEDURE þ 1. DOUBLE-CLICK on the Video configuration folder, and then DOUBLE-CLICK on the “Display Setting“ object. þ 2. To change resolution and/or color depth a) CLICK on “Screen“ tab. b) SELECT the resolution and color depth. c) CLICK on “Set“...
  • Page 41 640x480 resolution or 800x600 resolution; however, the information displayed will be that of 1024x768 resolution. To enable virtual screen: þ 1. SET UP the Trident display at a higher resolution, such as 1024x768. þ 2. SHUTDOWN the system and then re-start the system.

  • Page 42: Dos Utilities

    3.4 DOS Utilities The Utility Installation program is used to install and retrieve instructions a) Utility programs b) Non-Windows applications display drivers. Run the Utility Installation Program by executing the following steps: þ 1. INSERT the Drivers and Utilities Disk #2 in the floppy drive. þ...
  • Page 43 Files and subdirectories will be expanded into the newly created directory TVGAUTIL. A new menu will then be displayed on the screen, showing a list of on-line instructions (see Figure 3-26). Figure 3-26. þ 5. Selecting A will display the contents of all drivers in the list. þ...
  • Page 44 HOW TO USE SVM FROM THE MENU þ 1. SWITCH directory to “X:\TVGAUTIL\UTILITY” where X: is the drive where the Trident Utility and DOS Application driver files have been copied. þ 2. TYPE SVM to call up the menu (see Figure 3-27).
  • Page 45 The SVM program may be used to select a mode directly from the command line following two simple steps: þ 1. SWITCH directory to “X:\TVGAUTIL\UTILITY” where X: is the drive where the Trident Utility and DOS Application driver files have been copied. þ 2. TYPE in SVM [mode number] and PRESS ENTER.

  • Page 46: Optional Tv Out

    3.5 Optional TV Out In Windows 95, use 'Television' control page and 'Display Device' control page to select television only features in display properties once the display driver for Windows 95 has been installed. The 'Television' control page allows the user to select 'Underscan' or 'Overscan', to select 'Interlaced' or 'Non-interlaced', to adjust the 'Screen Shift' of the television display horizontally and to select the degree of flicker reduction under Advance control button.
  • Page 47 Conventional broadcast TV or VCR content provides an "Overscaned" viewing area in order to ensure that the entire visible screen is used. The result is that portions of the image along the border are beyond the physical screen. The actual visual area lost is dependent on the individual TV model.

  • Page 48: Frequently Asked Questions (Faq)

    4. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Q1 What is AGP and what does it mean? Answer The Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP or A.G.P) is a high performance, component level interconnect targeted at 3D graphical display applications and is based on a set of performance extensions or enhancements to Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI).
  • Page 49 vertex information; whereas, most common designs force triangles to be pre-processed for the rendering engine in terms of delta values for edges, color, and texture. Q5 Why does a 3D graphics chip need to have both a rendering engine and a setup engine? Answer Any “...
  • Page 50 3D applications. It does this by combining proven VGA, video, and graphics acceleration with an advanced 3D rendering core including a set-up engine and a full 3D feature set. Q11 Why should the customer choose Trident 3DImàge985 over other alternatives? Answer As stated above, the 3DImàge985 is second generation.

  • Page 52: Troubleshooting

    5. Troubleshooting The following are some recommended steps to take if the GUI accelerator adapter will not boot or operate properly in your system: 1. Ensure that the monitor or TV brightness and contrast controls are properly adjusted. 2. Check to see if your monitor or TV is properly connected to the card.

  • Page 53: Appendix A: Video Mode Table

    6. Appendix A: Video Mode Table The adapter’s video modes include all of the following: TABLE 6-1: STANDARD VGA MODE SUPPORT Mode Resolution Horz Vert Text Mode -Colors Type 0h,1h 320x200-16 31.4 40x25 Text 2h,3h 640x400-16 31.4 80x25 Text 4h,5h 320x200-4 31.4 40x25...
  • Page 54 TABLE 6-2: EXTENDED VGA MODE SUPPORT Mode Resolution Horz Vert Text Res Mode -Colors Type 20/1h_2 864x480-32K/64K 37.3 108x30 Graph 20/1h_1 864x480-32K/64K 31.5 108x30 Graph 22h_2 864x480-256 37.3 108x30 Graph 22h_1 864x480-256 31.5 108x30 Graph 23h_2 864x480-16M 37.3 108x30 Graph 23h_1 864x480-16M 31.5...
  • Page 55 Mode Resolution Horz Vert Text Res Mode -Colors Type 44/5h_1 320x240-32K/64K 31.4 40x15 Graph 46/7h_4 400x300-32K/64K 53.7 50x18 Graph 46/7h_3 400x300-32K/64K 46.8 50x18 Graph 46/7h_2 400x300-32K/64K 37.8 50x18 Graph 48/9h_5 512x384-32K/64K 68.7 64x24 Graph 48/9h_4 512x384-32K/64K 60.0 64x24 Graph 48/9h_3 512x384-32K/64K 56.4 64x24...
  • Page 56 Mode Resolution Horz Vert Text Res Mode -Colors Type 62h_2 1024x768-256 48.3 128x48 Graph 62h_1 1024x768-256 35.5 128x48 Graph 63h_4 1280x1024-16 91.1 160x64 Graph 63h_3 1280x1024-16 80.0 160x64 Graph 63h_2 1280x1024-16 63.9 160x64 Graph 63h_1 1280x1024-16 46.4 160x64 Graph 64h_4 1280x1024-256 91.1 160x64...
  • Page 57 Mode Resolution Horz Vert Text Res Mode -Colors Type 1280x1024-32K/64K 7A/Bh_0 46.4 160x128 Graph NOTES: 1. VESA mode. Same as 5Bh_1. 2. The "i" in the vertical frequency column denotes "interlaced". The "N" and "P" in the TV Out column denote "NTSC" and "PAL", respectively.

  • Page 58: Appendix B: Pinout And Sync Frequencies

    7. Appendix B: Pinout and Sync Frequencies 7.1 Analog Color Display Pinouts Table 7-1 lists the GUI accelerator analog color display pinouts. TABLE 7-1. ANALOG COLOR DISPLAY PINOUTS FUNCTION Red Video 1 Green Video 1 Blue Video 1 Not Used Ground Red Return (ground) Green Return (ground)

  • Page 59: Conversion Table: Pin Adapters

    7.2 Conversion Table: Pin Adapters If you will be using a 9-to-15 pin adapter cable to link your 9 pin monitor connector to the 15 pin accelerator card connector, check Table 7-2 carefully before you install the cable. The 9-to-15 pin adapter cables are available from a variety of sources, but they need to match the specifications in Table 7-2 to work properly with your new card.

  • Page 60: Appendix C: Fcc Compliance Statement

    8. Appendix C: FCC Compliance Statement This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation 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 undesirable operation.

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