Table of Contents
Advertisement
Quick Links
™
RADEON
9800 PRO MAC
EDITION
User's Guide
P/N: 137-40566-10
Copyright © 2003, ATI Technologies Inc. All rights reserved.
ATI and all ATI product and product feature names are trademarks and/or
registered trademarks of ATI Technologies Inc. All other company and/or
product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective
owners. Features, performance and specifications are subject to change without
notice. Product may not be exactly as shown in the diagrams.
Reproduction of this manual, or parts thereof, in any form, without the express
written permission of ATI Technologies Inc. is strictly prohibited.
Advertisement
Table of Contents
Subscribe to Our Youtube Channel
Related Manuals for ATI Technologies Radeon 9800 PRO MAC EDITION
Summary of Contents for ATI Technologies Radeon 9800 PRO MAC EDITION
- Page 1 Copyright © 2003, ATI Technologies Inc. All rights reserved. ATI and all ATI product and product feature names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of ATI Technologies Inc. All other company and/or product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
-
Page 2: Disclaimer
ATI hardware, software, or other products and documentation provided herein. ATI Technologies Inc. reserves the right to make changes without further notice to a product or system described herein to improve reliability, function or design. With respect to ATI... -
Page 3: Table Of Contents
Table of Contents Disclaimer................i Introduction........1 What You'll Need..................2 Related Documentation................ -
Page 4: Introduction
Introduction The RADEON 9800 PRO 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: •... -
Page 5: What You'll Need
What You'll Need The RADEON 9800 PRO MAC EDITION runs with the following minimum system requirements: ® • Any Power Macintosh computer with an AGP 4x/2x expansion slot. • Mac OS X version 10.2.5 or higher. • VGA-style monitor (see note below) DVI style digital flat ®... -
Page 6: Related Documentation
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 . -
Page 7: Multimedia Features
Multimedia Features Your RADEON 9800 PRO 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. -
Page 8: Viewing 3D Graphics
Full Scene Antialiasing (gamma corrected, up to 6x, Super- Sampling or Multi-Sampling). • Bilinear, Trilinear, and 16x Anisotropic filtering. • Shadow acceleration. In addition, the RADEON 9800 PRO MAC EDITION brings ® new and exciting graphics technologies to the Macintosh platform: ™ SMOOTHVISION... -
Page 9: Ati Displays Control Panel
ATI Displays Control Panel The ATI Displays control panel provides access to the advanced features that RADEON 9800 PRO MAC EDITION has to offer. To open the ATI Displays control panel using Mac OS X: ® 1 Open the Apple System Preferences. - Page 10 The Profile dialog presents information on the specific RADEON graphics card and video driver installed in your computer. Even if the 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.
-
Page 11: Using Mac2Tv Video Out
™ Using Mac2TV Video Out The RADEON 9800 PRO 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. •... - Page 12 If your 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 9800 PRO MAC EDITION and the other end to the S-Video 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 9800 PRO MAC EDITION.
-
Page 13: Enabling Mac2Tv
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 Displays Preferences” on page 14). Set Up Tab Video Output shows whether a TV or VCR has been detected. -
Page 14: Optimizing Mac2Tv
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. -
Page 15: Ratio/Size Tab
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. - Page 16 Using a TV as your only display If you are using television display only, disconnect your monitor from your RADEON 9800 PRO MAC EDITION. The RADEON 9800 PRO MAC EDITION detects that you have a TV attached and automatically starts with Mac2TV display enabled.
-
Page 17: Ati Displays Preferences
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 ®... -
Page 18: Advanced Display Options
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 VERSAVISION allows you to rotate your display while maintaining the full feature set of other ATI 2D and 3D technologies. -
Page 19: Display Control Tab
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. -
Page 20: Advanced Dfp Tab
ATI Scaler. Enable frequency reduction on high resolution displays allows higher resolution displays to be supported. (This feature is not required for the RADEON 9800 PRO MAC EDITION.) Enable Alternate DVI TMDS receiver mode enables coherent ®... -
Page 21: Ati Help
® Using DVD and QuickTime Playback ® The RADEON 9800 PRO MAC EDITION’s QuickTime playback acceleration allows you to stretch even the smallest movies to full screen size without compromising frame rate or image quality. RADEON 9800 PRO MAC EDITION’s hardware scaler maintains the original quality of your DVD or ®... -
Page 22: Using Digital Flat Panel (Dvi)
Looking at the back of your Mac, locate your ATI Graphics Accelerator. Attach one end of your DVI cable to the DVI connector on your RADEON 9800 PRO MAC EDITION and the other end to the DVI connector on your DVI flat panel. A. VGA Monitor Port B. -
Page 24: Video Mode Table
Specifications Video Mode Table The video mode table below lists the color depth capabilities for the supported resolutions on your RADEON 9800 PRO MAC EDITION. Please consult your monitor’s specifications to determine which resolutions are available with your display. Supported Modes Display Maximum Resolution... -
Page 25: Digital Flat Panel
Cinema HD ADC Display. This timing is not compatible with VESA’s 1920 x 1200. The RADEON 9800 PRO MAC EDITION has been used successfully, without modification, set as high as 3840 x 2400 at 15Hz on Digital Flat Panels that support this resolution. -
Page 26: Specifications
Specifications System Requirements ® • Power Macintosh computer with an AGP expansion slot. Operating System ® • OS X version 10.2.5 or higher. Graphics Controller • ATI RADEON 9800 PRO — graphics and multimedia accelerator chip. Video Display Buffer • 128MB memory. - Page 27 Power ± • %, @ 1.3A typical. Environment • Ambient Temperature: 50° to 122° F (10° to 50° C) operation. 32° to 162° F (0° to 70° C) storage. • Relative Humidity: 5% to 90% non-condensing operation, 0% to 95% storage. MTBF •...
-
Page 28: Glossary
Glossary Alpha blending When an image has an alpha value for each pixel, this tells how much to blend the colors from the image with the background colors. The lower the alpha values the more transparent the image looks. Anti-aliasing Method used to remove the jagginess of an image. - Page 29 Bitmap A bitmap is a graphics or character representation composed of individual pixels, arranged horizontally in rows. A monochrome bitmap uses one bit per pixel (bpp). Color bitmaps may use up to 32-bpp, depending on the number of colors desired. Buffers Your ATI accelerator card includes on-board memory which is used in a number of ways.
- Page 30 Pixel, Pel Picture element. Smallest addressable area of the computer screen. Pixels on computer displays are square; pixels on NTSC televisions have a 4:3 aspect ratio. Refresh Rate Also referred to as “vertical refresh rate”. The rate at which a monitor or television can redraw the screen from top to bottom.
-
Page 31: Index
Index specifications Numerics 3D Graphics supported features Apple Displays using VGA adapter ATI Guide accessing description Graphic Card features 2, 23 requirements specifications Monitor Resolution 2D video mode table QuickDraw 3D supported features QuickTime requirements Software ATI Guide 2, 23 requirements Video Card features...
Need help?
Do you have a question about the Radeon 9800 PRO MAC EDITION and is the answer not in the manual?
Questions and answers