Copyright 2010 by ELBOX COMPUTER Mediator Multimedia CD rev. 2.0EN Welcome to the Mediator Multimedia World. Install new drivers using Quick Install script. This package will give you the option of using excellent sound and TV cards in your Amiga fitted with the Mediator busboard. Additionally, you will find here the fully-working drivers for the Radeon 9200 series card, the Voodoo 4 and 5 graphic card families and drivers for the Fast Ethernet 100Mbps PCI cards. Licence By using this software, you are agreeing to be bound by the terms and conditions of the License Agreement (Licence.txt). Registration To register, send an e-mail message to support@elbox.com with "subscribe MM CD" in the subject line. In the body, give the CD serial number (see the CD-ROM), your full name, e-mail address and where you have purchased the MM CD pack. How to install this CD-ROM software 1. Install the hardware key following the instructions on the package. 2. Use the enclosed automatic installer to install the required software components. 3. To configure the Mediator variables use the MedConfig script. You can always find the info about current Mediator drivers at: http://www.elbox.com/downloads_mediator.html The current info on supported PCI card is available in the Mediator Driver Guide at http://www.elbox.com/mdg.html TV DRIVERS To use the TV Drivers, please check that you have a Voodoo card installed. The enclosed drivers support the most popular TV cards based on the FUSION 878A and 879A as well as Bt848A and Bt849A chipsets. For the complete list, see the TVprefs drawer. Automatic TV Drivers installation: Follow the installer scripts. Manual TV Drivers installation: 1. Copy tv.library to the Libs: drawer. 2. Copy the appropriate TV card prefs file to Envarc:Mediator. Change its name in Envarc:Mediator to TV.prefs. Note: TV.prefs file defines all the details of the specific TV card including RF frond-end model and GPIO lines settings as well as layout of audio connections. Note: If, despite selecting the TV.prefs file appropriate for the given card, only external video inputs are working, and switching to the TV program results only in a bluish or snowy window, it means that the card has an RF front-end installed, which is not standard for this card. If this is the case, select the proper frond-end in the Tuner preferences file in Envarc:Mediator drawer, which corresponds with the description in the card's front-end (the metal box). Note: If there are no problems with TV image, but sound is missing, it means that a wrong TV.prefs file has been selected. Change it for another, corresponding with the name in the TV card's package. 3. Copy the TV file from the appropriate drawer in the TVsystems area to the C: drawer. 4. Copy Broadcast and Cable TV Channels setting files appropriate to your location to any selected drawer on your HDD. Note: After installing the drivers, remove the CD-ROM from the drive. Customising your TV desktop: Leave out the TV icon from the C: drawer. This icon will be used for adjusting image parameters (size, contrast, brightness, sat_u, sat_v, hue, others). TV program parameters: PLL: channel frequency [MHz] x 16, VIDEO_SRC: 0-TV tuner, 1-external (video-in), 2-optional (s-video b&w), 3-optional, 65638-optional (s-video), 65639-optional AUDIO_MODE: 0-tuner, 1-radio, 2-external, 3-internal, 4-mute CONTRAST: from 0 to 255, default 108, BRIGHT: from 0 to 255, default 128, SAT_U: from 0 to 255, default 90, SAT_V: from 0 to 255, default 90, HUE: from 0 to 255, default 128, SIGNAL_FMT: 1-NTSC_M, 2-NTSC_MJ, 3-PAL_BDGHI, 4-PAL_M, 5-PAL_N, 6-SECAM_L, 7-PAL_NC SIZE: from 1 to 8; default 4, BACKDROP: TV as a backdrop FM: radio, FULL_FRAME: full TV screen (greater than the regular TV screen) CLOSE: close TV window or backdrop FREQ_STEP: 0-62.5kHz, 1-31.25khz, 3-50khz Leave out the icons of the Broadcast Channel drawer and the TV Cable channel drawer icons. The complete set of channels available in your location is provided in these drawers: just click on the channel icon to set on the appropriate TV program. As not all the frequencies are used by broadcasting stations, we recommend renaming icons for the corresponding TV channels (e.g. CH27 to MTV) and removing all the other icons, which are not supported in your location. Note: The backdrop color, which is replaced by the backdrop TV screen is specified in Envarc:Mediator/Background To be able to watch TV, use the screen modes, which support the overlay function: 16-bit PC, 24-bit BGR or 32-bit BGRA. If opening TV is attempted in the mode which does not support overlay, the TV program will display the following message: Error: p96PIP_OpenTagList () failed. This message means that the Picasso96 system is not able to open the overlay window. Under certain situations, the P96 system may also refuse opening the window due to the error in comunication of the Picasso96 system with AmigaOS3.9. To prevent this error coming up, it is usually enought to set the Icon Quality to GOOD in Workbench prefs (instead of BEST). Also, when the system is started, do not keep the CD_ROM in the drive. Note: Instead of using TV command directly, you can control TV screen parameters with the GUI written by 3rd party developers. We recommend: the TvR program by Robert Krajcarz file: http://www.ppa.pl/artykuly/download/tvr210.lha web: http://www.ppa.pl/artykul-TvR..program.do.tunerow.TV.w.Mediatorze-2_27_325.html and the SuperTV program by Peter Gordon file: http://www.petergordon.org.uk/files/stv_1-0.lha web: http://www.petergordon.org.uk VHI STUDIO DRIVERS The Mediator Multimedia CD includes drivers for the VHI Studio program Install TV.vhi according to VHI Studio program manual. SOUND DRIVERS To use the Sound Drivers, please check that you have a Voodoo card installed. The enclosed sb128.audio AHI drivers support all the most popular Sound Blaster PCI128 sound cards based on the ES1370, ES1371, ES1373, CT5880 and EV1938 chipsets and Sound Blaster 4.1 Digital sound cards. The fm801.audio AHI driver supports sound cards based on Fortemedia FM801-AU chipset. To use the sound card you have to install the AHI sound system first. Automatic TV Drivers installation: Follow the installer scripts. Manual Sound Drivers installation: 1. Copy mixer.library to the Libs: drawer. 2. Copy sb128.audio (fm801.audio) to Devs:AHI 3. Copy SB128 (FM801) to Devs:AudioModes 4. Copy Mixer, Mixer.info, Mixer.guide, Mixer.guide.info, mixerlogo.iff to any selected drawer on your HDD (default Sys:prefs). Read the Mixer Guide before using the Mixer GUI. Note: Instead of the Mixer GUI by Richard Brooklyn included in the MM CD you can control your sound card mixer with the GUI written by 3rd party developers. We recommend: GhostMix by Matthew Allatt file: http://aminet.net/hard/drivr/GhostMix.lha web: http://homepages.gotoadsl.co.uk/~allattm/Amiga.html and Taski Mixer by Pawel Filipczak file: ftp://taski.com.pl/pub/TaskiMixer.lha web: http://taski.com.pl/loader.php Customising your Sound desktop: Leave out the Mixer program icon. Note: Some Codec AC'97 chips do not support the 3D control properly. If the sound is played back improperly, switch off this function (Mixer: 3D control - mute). Note: The Fortemedia fm801.audio driver supports the following Mediator models: Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D, Mediator PCI 4000Di, Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200TX, Mediator PCI 1200SX, Mediator PCI 1200LT4, Mediator PCI 1200LT and Mediator PCI ZIV. The Fortemedia fm801.audio driver does not support Mediator PCI 1200 busboard. If you want to use Fortemedia FM801-based card in A1200 upgrade your Mediator PCI 1200 to Mediator PCI 1200TX. GRAPHIC DRIVERS The enclosed 2D graphic drivers support the following cards in the full scope of their functions: Voodoo Banshee 16MB Voodoo3 2000 16MB SDRAM/SGRAM Voodoo3 3000 16MB SGRAM/SDRAM Voodoo4 4500 32MB Voodoo5 5500 64MB Automatic Graphic Drivers installation: Follow the installer script. Manual Graphic Drivers installation: Copy the enclosed Voodoo.card to Libs:Picasso96 drawer FAST ETHERNET DRIVERS The enclosed Fast Ethernet Drivers support the RTL8139 based 100Mbps cards. Automatic Fast Ethernet Drivers installation: Follow the installer script. Manual Fast Ethernet Drivers installation: Copy enclosed FastEthernet.device to Devs:Networks drawer Current links to 3rd party MEDIATOR software you can always find at http://elbox.com/downloads_mediator.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- Upgrading policy Upgrades will be available by e-mail only to registered users of this MM CD package (see the registration note in the beginning of this file). ---------------------------------------------------------------------