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  • Page 1 ELSA ERAZOR ELSA VICTORY Erazor...
  • Page 2 Copyright © 1998 ELSA AG, Aachen (Germany) While the information in this manual has been compiled with great care, it may not be deemed an assur- ance of product characteristics. ELSA shall be liable only to the degree specified in the terms of sale and delivery.

  • Page 3: About This Manual

    Preface Thank you for placing your trust in this ELSA product. To make sure that you have undiluted fun with your ELSA board, we insist on the high- est quality requirements in manufacturing and stringent quality control to ensure our high product standards and consistent product quality.
  • Page 4 Before you continue Installation of the ELSA ERAZOR II and ELSA VICTORY Erazor LT and installation of the associated drivers are described in the Installation Guide. Please read this information first before you start reading this manual.

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    Address Assignment of the ERAZOR II and VICTORY Erazor LT ......21 Ports on the Graphics Board ................. 22 The VGA D-Shell Socket ................. 22 Appendix ........................23 Advice and Help ....................23 ELSA ERAZOR II and ELSA VICTORY Erazor LT...
  • Page 6 Who to Contact? ....................24 The ELSA LocalWeb..................25 Driver Updates ....................25 Repair? ......................25 DoC–Declaration of Conformity ................ 26 Warranty Conditions..................... 28 Glossary ........................31 Index ..........................35 ELSA ERAZOR II and ELSA VICTORY Erazor LT...

  • Page 7: Introduction

    “Reading the manual is a waste of time.” A prejudice you are proving to be wrong right now by reading this manual. And rightly so. In this case, it is really worth the effort. Because the ELSA ERAZOR II and ELSA VICTORY Erazor LT has some smart features that are only described here in the manual.

  • Page 8: Highlights Of The Erazor Graphics Boards

    Documentation: Installation Guide and electronic manual on CD CD-ROM with installation and driver software and utilities If any part is missing please contact your dealer. ELSA reserves the right to vary the prod- ucts supplied without prior notice. ELSA ERAZOR II and ELSA VICTORY Erazor LT...

  • Page 9: Ce Conformity And Fcc Radiation Standard

    Caution to the user: The Federal Communications Commission warns the user that changes or modifications to the unit not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user's authority to operate the equipment. ELSA ERAZOR II and ELSA VICTORY Erazor LT...
  • Page 10 Introduction ELSA ERAZOR II and ELSA VICTORY Erazor LT...

  • Page 11: After Installing The Drivers

    CD – unless it is already included in the operating system. What is Possible? The table below shows the maximum possible resolutions for the ELSA graphics board. Note that these resolutions cannot be achieved under all operating conditions. ERAZOR II...

  • Page 12: What Makes Sense

    1280 x 1024 1152 x 864 20“/21“ 19“ - 20“ 1024 x 768 1600 x 1200 1280 x 1024 24“ 21“ - 22“ 1600 x 1000 1920 x 1200 1600 x 1000 ELSA ERAZOR II and ELSA VICTORY Erazor LT...

  • Page 13: Changing The Resolution

    You set the resolution of your graphics board in the Control Panel under Windows. The ELSA graphics card is normally supplied with software on a CD-ROM. You will find all the utilities described in this manual on the WINNERware CD – unless they are a com- ponent of the operating system.
  • Page 14 A second option requires information about the technical specifications for your monitor. Consult your monitor manual to ensure that you have the correct information. Click on Change... in the 'Monitor type database' window. In addition to the information regard- ELSA ERAZOR II and ELSA VICTORY Erazor LT...
  • Page 15 Check your entries for the image frequencies carefully, as otherwise you might damage your monitor. Look these up in your monitor manual or consult the monitor manufacturer. ELSA ERAZOR II and ELSA VICTORY Erazor LT...

  • Page 16: Windows Nt 4.0

    You can select the possible settings for 'Color palette', 'Font size', 'Resolution' and 'Dis- play frequency' from this dialog box. The available selection is determined by the ELSA driver you have installed. You should always check the configuration you have selected by clicking on the Test button.

  • Page 17: Useful Stuff And More

    Useful Stuff and More Useful Stuff and More You have received a CD with your ELSA ERAZOR II and ELSA VICTORY Erazor LT. On the WINNERware CD you will find all the drivers you will need for the use of the ELSA ERAZOR II and ELSA VICTORY Erazor LT under various operating systems and the tools you can use to exploit all the features on the graphics board.

  • Page 18: Fine-Tuning For Performance Freaks

    Useful Stuff and More Fine-Tuning for Performance Freaks After installing the ELSA graphics drivers under Windows 95 and Windows 98 you will find a new tab in the 'Display Properties': The ' 3D Settings'. The question mark provides the answers!

  • Page 19: All About Graphics

    Depending on the representation, these vertices also contain information concerning the material and texture. The volume of data to be pro- cessed increases enormously because of this conversion of the image information. ELSA ERAZOR II and ELSA VICTORY Erazor LT...
  • Page 20 MIP mapping between bilinear and trilinear filtering. Bilin- ear filtering interpolates between two pixels of two textures, trilinear filtering interpolates between four pixels for each of two textures. ELSA ERAZOR II and ELSA VICTORY Erazor LT...
  • Page 21 This procedure should be repeated at least 20 times a second to give a smooth representation of 3D scenarios. In this context, we speak of frames per second (fps), a very important value for 3D applications. A cinema film runs at 24 fps. ELSA ERAZOR II and ELSA VICTORY Erazor LT...

  • Page 22: 3D Interfaces

    There are a good dozen more or less commonly found 3D APIs. However, in recent years, two formats have established themselves as the favorites: Direct 3D and OpenGL. ELSA graphics boards support these commonly found 3D interfaces. The functional differences between the interfaces are slight, as is shown by the table below.

  • Page 23: Opengl

    The some 330 routines of OpenGL provide software developers access to these graphics capabilities: For further information see the Internet WWW site http://www.sgi.com ELSA ERAZOR II and ELSA VICTORY Erazor LT...

  • Page 24: Color Palettes, Truecolor And Gray Scales

    All about graphics Color Palettes, TrueColor and Gray Scales Common graphics modes are listed in the following table. Not all graphics modes are available on the ELSA ERAZOR II and ELSA VICTORY Erazor LT boards. Colors Graphics mode (from palette) Max.

  • Page 25: Vesa Ddc (Display Data Channel)

    3) is used as transmission clock (SCL). The graphics board can request the short EDID information (see DDC1) as well as the more comprehensive VDIF information (VESA Dis- play Identification File). ELSA ERAZOR II and ELSA VICTORY Erazor LT...

  • Page 26: Ddc2Ab

    (similar to ACCESS bus). For information on the pin assignment for the VGA D-shell socket 20 in the “Technical Data” chapter . ELSA ERAZOR II and ELSA VICTORY Erazor LT...

  • Page 27: Technical Data

    Address Assignment of the ERAZOR II and VICTORY Erazor LT The ELSA ERAZOR II and ELSA VICTORY Erazor LT graphics board are fully IBM VGA com- patible and occupies the same memory area and specific addresses in the I/O range. The memory range above 1 MB is automatically assigned through the PCI BIOS interface.

  • Page 28: Ports On The Graphics Board

    Data timing (SCL, DDC2B) Blue ground The ELSA ERAZOR II and ELSA VICTORY Erazor LT issue analog signals in accordance with the requirements of Guideline RS-170. The synchronization information is sent sep- arately. If your monitor provides a switch for the input impedance, you should select '75 Ohms' (= '75 ') for the R, G and B video inputs and '2 kOhm' (= '2 k ') for the sync inputs.

  • Page 29: Appendix

    If you encounter any problems during the installation or operation of your ELSA product, please consult this manual first. On the ELSA CD or floppy disk you will find a file called README.TXT, containing late-breaking changes and additional information not available when this manual was printed.

  • Page 30: Who To Contact

    Appendix Who to Contact? First you should contact the dealer where you bought your ELSA product. If there are still questions remaining, contact one of the following: ELSA on the Internet The ELSA Internet WWW site www.elsa.com ELSA LocalWeb +49-241-93 88 00 (ELSA’s dial-up WWW site:...

  • Page 31: The Elsa Localweb

    Support team, please make sure that you are using the latest driver versions. Repair? If you are not sure whether your ELSA expansion board is defective or if the problem is just a driver which is incorrectly installed, please call the ELSA support hotline before you send the board for repair.

  • Page 32: Doc-Declaration Of Conformity

    Appendix DoC–Declaration of Conformity ELSA ERAZOR II and ELSA VICTORY Erazor LT...
  • Page 33 Appendix ELSA ERAZOR II and ELSA VICTORY Erazor LT...

  • Page 34: Warranty Conditions

    ELSA videoconferencing systems with a warranty period of 36 months. This period begins at the day of delivery from the ELSA dealer. Warranty services do not result in an extension of the war- ranty period nor do they initiate a new warranty period. The warranty period for installed replacement parts ends with the warranty period of the device as a whole.
  • Page 35 ELSA Monitor, damage to the cathode ray tube (CRT) has been caused especially by mechanical load (e.g. from shock to the pitch mask assembly or damage to the glass tube), by...
  • Page 36 Appendix ELSA ERAZOR II and ELSA VICTORY Erazor LT...

  • Page 37: Glossary

    Animations and games can be made to Bump mapping – Process by which textures look more realistic with this technique than are assigned depth information which allows with simple single buffer. the display of relief or raised structures. ELSA ERAZOR II and ELSA VICTORY Erazor LT...
  • Page 38 Flipping – The image generated in the back ("blocks" and "stairs") will occur. This can be buffer is displayed. avoided by interpolation procedures (using ELSA ERAZOR II and ELSA VICTORY Erazor LT...
  • Page 39 (unlike ROM = Read Only Memory). Phong shading: the color shades on a triangle ELSA ERAZOR II and ELSA VICTORY Erazor LT...
  • Page 40 Z buffer – 3D depth information (position in angles. the third dimension) for each pixel. Textures – Wrapping a bitmap around an object, including perspective correction, for ELSA ERAZOR II and ELSA VICTORY Erazor LT...

  • Page 41: Index

    DRAM ............32 Performance ..........12 Driver ............25 Phong shading ........15 Pin assignment .......... 22 EDO-RAM ..........32 Point sampling ........... 14 Primitive ..........14 Products supplied ........2 FCC ............3 ELSA ERAZOR II and ELSA VICTORY Erazor LT...
  • Page 42 Shutter glasses .......... 33 Single buffer ..........33 Warranty ............2 Stencil buffer ..........16 WWW ............24 Support ..........2 Support hotline .......... 24 System requirements ........2 Z buffer ............34 ELSA ERAZOR II and ELSA VICTORY Erazor LT...

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