12 Matrox Extio Series – User Guide
3 Set up your display software
Use Matrox PowerDesk software to change certain display settings or access Matrox features.
To access PowerDesk, click its icon ( ) on your Windows taskbar. To see the PowerDesk
icon in Windows XP/Vista, you may need to click the
Show hidden icons
button ( ) on
your Windows taskbar. For more information on how to use Matrox PowerDesk, see the
online help.
Windows Server 2003
– To be able to use PowerDesk Multi-Display Setup with your Matrox
product, you need to enable hardware acceleration on all the displays supported by your
Matrox product. If hardware acceleration isn’t enabled on a display, PowerDesk may not
work properly.
To enable hardware acceleration, right-click your Windows desktop background, then click
Properties
"
Settings
"
Advanced
"
Troubleshoot
. Set the
Hardware Acceleration
slider to
Full
.
4 Configure your audio settings
If you’ve installed an audio driver for your Matrox product, make sure the audio hardware in
your unit is enabled.
a
Open the Windows
Audio
property sheet:
Windows 2000
– Click
Start
"
Settings
"
Control Panel
"
Multimedia
or
Sounds and
Multimedia
(double-click)
"
Audio
.
Windows XP
– Click
Start
"
Settings
*
"
Control Panel
"
Sounds, Speech, and Audio
Devices
*
"
Sounds and Audio Devices
"
Audio
. (* Depending on your configuration of
Windows, this part of the step may not be necessary.)
Windows Vista
– Click
Start
"
Settings
*
"
Control Panel
"
Hardware and Sound
*
"
Sound
. (* Depending on your configuration of Windows, this part of the step may not
be necessary.)
b
Windows 2000/XP
– Under
Sound playback
and
Sound recording
, select
Matrox Audio
Device
as the default device. Make sure
Use only default devices
is enabled.
Windows Vista
– In the
Playback
property sheet, select
Speakers (Matrox Audio Device)
,
then click
Set Default
. This also enables
Digital Output (Matrox Audio Device)
.
In the
Recording
property sheet, select the
Matrox Audio Device
you want to use, then
click
Set Default
.
c
Cli ck
OK
.
Note:
If audio hardware is built into the motherboard of your computer, you may need to
disable it manually before you can use the audio hardware in your Matrox Extio unit.
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