ATI Technologies FireGL? T2-128 User manual

FireGL™

T2-128

User’s Guide

P/N: 137-50026-10

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Contents

Getting Started .............................................................. 1

Using this Guide ........................................................................................... 2

Viewing the User's Guide Online.......................................................... 3

Do you Need a Printout of the Online User's Guide? ............................ 3

FireGL Card Features ....................................................................... 4

System Requirements and Tools .................................................................. 6

Quick Installation ......................................................................................... 7

Installation Steps ................................................................................... 7

Installing the Hardware and Software ........................ 8

Installing the Hardware ................................................................................ 8

Preparing your Computer ...................................................................... 9

Installing the Card ............................................................................... 13

Connecting the Cables and Completing the Installation ..................... 18

Installing the Software ................................................................................ 21

Before you Start: Information, Tips, and Hints................................... 22

Software Installation for Windows 2000 and Windows XP ............... 23

Using Your FireGL Card ............................................. 25

Using Two Monitors ................................................................................... 27

Using the DualScreen Tab ................................................................. 28

Changing the Video Settings ...................................................................... 29

How to Switch to the Display Properties?........................................... 29

Setting Resolution, Color Depth and Refresh Rate ............................ 29

Adjusting the Monitor Display ............................................................ 31

Using Application Profiles and Advanced Functions ................................. 34

Configuring Application Profiles ........................................................ 34

Setting Advanced Functions ................................................................ 37

See also

HYDRAVISION™ User’s Guide

Reference .................................................................... 39

Removing the FireGL Drivers.................................................................... 39

Troubleshooting .......................................................................................... 41

Technical Details ........................................................................................ 44

Product Specifications ......................................................................... 44

Pin Assignments .................................................................................. 46

Video Modes ....................................................................................... 48

Customer Care and Warranty Service ........................................................ 50

Compliance Information ............................................................................. 53

CHAPTER 1

Getting Started

Your ATI FireGL card is an advanced workstation 3D graphics

accelerator based on a high-bandwidth, parallel pipeline

geometry and rendering architecture. The card delivers

workstation-class performance to designers, engineers and

animators, running the leading OpenGL and DirectX

applications

Features of your FireGL workstation graphics accelerator:

• Real-time photo-realistic rendering and animation

• Stable and reliable software support for Windows® and

Linux® platforms

• Optimized support for the leading workstation applications

• SMARTSHADER™ 2.0 technology for creating complex

visual effects

• SMOOTHVISION™ 2.0 technology for advanced full-scene

anti-aliasing

IN THIS CHAPTER...

■Using this Guide on page 2

■FireGL Card Features on page 4

■System Requirements and Tools on

page 6

■Quick Installation on page 7

2 Getting Started

Using this Guide

For your convenience, this online User's Guide comes in

Portable Document Format (PDF). You will need the latest

Adobe® Acrobat® Reader® software available from

www.adobe.com.

Many hyperlinks provide easy access to any information you

may want. To make it useful in a printed format, too, a -

hyperlinked - table of contents and page numbers are provided.

Since this guide was designed to be used online and printed, the

quality of some images on screen or in print may be affected.

The organization of this guide is as follows:

Installing the Hardware and Software on page 8 provides

instructions for installing your FireGL card, loading the driver

and connecting video output devices to your card.

Using Your FireGL Card on page 25 explains how you can

take advantage of the advanced features of your FireGL card.

Reference on page 39 provides troubleshooting tips and

regulatory compliance information for your card.

HYDRAVISION™ User’s Guide provides information on

using HYDRAVISION, a multi-monitor and desktop

management utility to control multiple display desktops.

Getting Started 3

Viewing the User's Guide Online

You can easily read the User's Guide online - important

hypertext links, such as Table of Contents entries, World Wide

Web, and E-mail addresses are active.

Place your mouse cursor over Table of Contents entries or main

headings. If the hand icon changes to a pointing index finger,

simply click and you will move to that place in the document.

Displaying the provided bookmark and thumbnail views may

help you with the orientation and navigation in the User's

Guide. Some E-mail or Web addresses inside this manual may

be active as well. Go directly to a Web, FTP site, or E-mail

program simply by clicking on an active link.

This manual might be displayed with slightly-reduced

magnification in your Reader. If you experience any difficulty

reading certain files online, use the Reader's Zoom To feature

from the View menu and increase the magnification to about

150%. To view details of some screenshot images you may need

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Do you Need a Printout of the Online User's Guide?

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manual then will look like any standard document with a table

of contents and page numbers.

For printing the User's Guide, a print resolution of 600 dpi or

higher is recommended.

4 Getting Started

FireGL Card Features

• Video memory: DDR SDRAM

- unified frame buffer, Z-buffer, texture storage

- 128-bit floating point precision frame buffer for

photo-realistic renderings.

- 128-bit memory interface for fast 3D graphics

• Pixel pipeline architecture provides enhanced rendering

power.

FireGL VPU Video

Memory

Rendering

Pipelines

FireGL T2-128 FGL 9600 128 MB 4

VPU: Visual Processing Unit

FireGL T2-128 pictured

Getting Started 5

• Supports AGP 3.0 standard (AGP 4X/8X), providing a two

way high-speed interface between the graphics subsystem

and the workstation

• OpenGL 1.3 with 1.4 extensions

DirectX® 9.0 functionality in OpenGL®

• Full DirectX® 9.0 support

• DDC1/2b/2b+ monitor support on all operating system

platforms

• Support for two analog or digital monitors

High resolutions up to 2048 x 1536, 32-bit

Independent resolutions and refresh rates for any two

connected monitors

9.1 Mpixel, 3840 x 240single-display support

• Application-specific display profile utilities for optimal

performance

• Intel Pentium® 4 Streaming SIMD and AMD Athlon

3Dnow!™ support for Windows 2000, Windows XP and

Linux operating systems.

For more detailed information on features and

performance please refer to the section Technical

Details on page 44.

6 Getting Started

System Requirements and Tools

Computer

system

• Intel® Pentium® 3, Pentium® 4, Xeon®

AMD® Athlon® XP/MP/Opteron

or compatible

• 128 MB of system memory

256 MB or more for best performance

• Motherboard with free AGP slot and

correct AGP chipset-driver

• CD-ROM drive

Operating

system

• Windows®2000 with Service Pack 1

(or higher)

•Windows®XP

• Linux XFree86 4.X.0

Service Pack

Information for

Windows2000

You must be running Windows 2000, updated with

Service Pack 1 (or higher) prior to installing the

FireGL drivers.

Service Packs are available from Microsoft's web

page, www.microsoft.com.

Tools • A screwdriver to remove and reinstall the PC

cover screws and card mounting screws. See

your PC manual for specific requirements.

• ATI INSTALLATION CD-ROM for your FireGL

card

Monitor • High-resolution MultiSync or multi-frequency

monitors or other VGA monitors.

• Digital flat-panel (DFP) displays or digital CRT

displays

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