ATI Technologies FIRE GL1 Manual de usuario

User's Guide

DISCLAIMER

The manufacturer (MFR) reserves the right to make changes to this

document and the products which it describes without notice. The

MFR shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or

omissions made herein; not for incidental or consequential

damages resulting from the furnishing, performance, or use of this

material.

The MFR makes no representation that the interconnection of

products in the manner described herein will not infringe on

existing or future patent rights, nor do the descriptions contained

herein imply the granting of license to make, use or sell equipment

constructed in accordance with this description.

The PCI accelerators have been designed to support the PCI local

bus standards. Some computers use proprietary local bus circuitry

and therefore may not be fully compatible with the MFR’s local

bus cards. Although tested successfully in a wide variety of

computer systems, the MFR cannot be held responsible for any

incompatibilities which may occur between this card and the

system configuration you plan to use. We recommend that you

check with the dealer or distributor for your computer system

before installing your card.

Table of Contents

BOUT FIRE GL1................................................... 5

HARDWARE FEATURES............................................................ 6

SOFTWARE FEATURES ............................................................. 6

PROFESSIONAL 3D RENDERING ............................................7

CARD LAYOUT ........................................................................8

OW TO USE THIS MANUAL ................................ 9

MANUAL CONVENTIONS .......................................................9

NSTALLING FIRE GL1............................................ 10

INSTALLING THE HARDWARE ................................................10

Preparing your Computer..........................................11

Opening the Computer Cabinet ..............................13

Installing the Card......................................................... 14

Reassembling Your Computer ..................................15

Connecting the Monitor Cable.................................16

After Installing the Card .............................................17

INSTALLING SOFTWARE..........................................................19

General Information ....................................................19

Software Installation for Windows NT4.0.............20

IRE GL1SOFTWARE UTILITIES............................ 22

CHANGING THE VIDEO SETTINGS ........................................ 23

Setting Resolution and Color Depth....................... 24

Choosing Monitors and Display Refresh Rates ....25

Adjusting the Monitor Display ..................................27

Setting Multiple Monitor Configuration..................31

MODIFYING APPLICATION PROFILES.....................................33

EMOVING THE FIRE GL1DRIVERS ..................... 36

Table of Contents

6 TROUBLESHOOTING...............................................37

COMMON PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS ............................... 37

A TECHNICAL DETAILS ..............................................40

FEATURES AND PERFORMANCE ............................................. 40

Hardware........................................................................ 40

Software .......................................................................... 41

Hardware Performance .............................................. 42

PIN ASSIGNMENTS ................................................................... 42

VIDEO MODES.......................................................................... 43

BLOCK DIAGRAM .................................................................... 44

B GLOSSARY ...............................................................45

C TRADEMARKS ..........................................................57

D EMI COMPLIANCE INFORMATION ........................58

About Fire GL1 5

1ABOUT FIRE GL1

♦HARDWARE FEATURES

♦SOFTWARE FEATURES

♦PROFESSIONAL 3D RENDERING

♦CARD LAYO U T

Diamond Fire GL1 is based upon the IBM 256-bit Graphics

Rasterizer, integrating the functionality of a VGA controller, a

2D/3D Raster Engine with Geometry Pipeline Setup processor, and

a 250 MHz RAMDAC in a single package.

Diamond Fire GL1 delivers a balance of 2D power and superior 3D

acceleration providing power for professional 2D and 3D NT

graphics applications:

♦Mechanical Engineering Analysis (MEA)

♦Mechanical Computer Aided Design (MCAD)

♦Electrical Design Automation (EDA)

♦Digital Content Creation (DCC)

♦Animation

♦Visualization

HARDWARE FEATURES

♦IBM 256-bit Graphics Rasterizer

♦32 MB SGRAM used for unified framebuffer, Z-, Alpha-,

Overlay-, Window ID and Clip/Stencil buffers, and texture

storage

♦Single short form factor AGP and PCI versions

⇒AGP ATX/NLX bus, AGP2x version 2.0 compliant, with

sideband addressing

⇒PCI bus 32-bit 33/66 MHz version 2.1 compliant

♦100 MHz clock on raster engine and frame buffer

♦64 KByte BIOS FlashROM, reprogrammable by software

♦32-bit RGBαTrue color 2D and 3D acceleration

♦Accelerated, double-buffered 32-bit TrueColor up to

1920 x 1200, at 75 Hz refresh rates

♦24-bit Z- buffer, 4-bit double-buffer, 8-bit single-buffer

overlay

♦Video engine supports YUV conversion, point and bilinear

scaling

♦Standard blue 15-pin D-Type video output connector

SOFTWARE FEATURES

♦OpenGL 1.2 ICD

♦Supports Windows NT 4.0

♦Multiprocessor system support

♦Software driver supports up to 4 displays

♦DDC2B support on all operating systems

About Fire GL1 7

♦Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions (70 New Instructions) in

the new Intel Processors

♦Customized application settings for individual ISV applications

♦Multithreaded OpenGL pipeline and ThreadSafe OpenGL 1.2

ICD support for dual processors.

♦Multihead display driver supports up to 4 screens

♦DDC2B monitor support on all operating system platforms

PROFESSIONAL 3D RENDERING

♦Full OpenGL 1.2 feature set

♦Gouraud shading

♦Bilinear and trilinear MIP-mapping

♦Alpha blending

♦Fogging and depth cueing

♦Anti-aliased lines and sorted polygons

♦Scissoring and stippling

♦Overlay and stencil buffers

♦Z-buffering

For more information on features and performance of your Fire

GL1please refer tothe sectionTechnical Details.

Important — You must be running Windows NT 4.0, updated with

Service Pack 4 (or newer) prior to installing the Fire GL1 drivers.

The Service Pack is available from Microsoft's web page,

www.microsoft.com. For most languages you can perform the

Service Pack 4 update from the SuperCD when you run the Quick

Start utility.

CARD LAYOUT

Fire GL1 with AGP bus interface

1 IBM 256-bit Graphics Rasterizer

with fan

4 Flash BIOS PROM

2SG-RAMchips

- also on solder side

5 Oscillator

3 DB-15 monitor connector 6 3.3V/5V voltage supply support with

heatsink

Fire GL1 with PCI bus interface

How to Use this Manual 9

2HOW TO USE THIS

MANUAL

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flexibility when using this documentation. You can easily print

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MANUAL CONVENTIONS

Your Fire GL1 User’s Guide is organized in a standard, familiar

way. A few icons are used to point out important information:

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This icon is a warning about possible electrical/software hazards or

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3INSTALLING FIRE GL1

♦INSTALLINGTHE HARDWARE

♦INSTALLING SOFTWARE

INSTALLING THE HARDWARE

Notes:

♦If you plan to set up a multi-monitor system you must install

the primary display adapter and the drivers first, before

installing additional graphics cards.

With the drivers provided you can operate a maximum of four

Fire GL1 Graphics Accelerators. The drivers are designed

exclusively to support Fire GL1 Graphics Accelerators with the

Windows NT 4.0 operating system (updated with Service

Pack 4 or higher). The drivers DO NOT SUPPORT any other

type or brand of graphics card or operating system.

♦Your Fire GL1 may be either an AGP or PCI type. Follow the

instructions for the specific card that you purchased.

♦Please note that the illustrations provided in this section are

for instructional use only; the card shown may look different

than the one you purchased.

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