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Name

nv - NVIDIA video driver

Synopsis


Section "Device"
  Identifier "devname"
  Driver "nv"
  ...
EndSection

Description

nv is an XFree86 driver for NVIDIA video cards. The driver is fully accelerated and provides support for the following framebuffer depths: 8, 15, 16 (except Riva128) and 24. All visual types are supported for depth 8, TrueColor and DirectColor visuals are supported for the other depths with the exception of the Riva128 which only supports TrueColor in the higher depths. Multi-head configurations are supported.

Supported Hardware

The nv driver supports PCI and AGP video cards based on the following NVIDIA chips:
RIVA 128
NV3
RIVA TNT
NV4
RIVA TNT2
NV5
GeForce 256, QUADRO
NV10
GeForce2, QUADRO2
NV11 & NV15 (except GeForce2 Go, which is NOT supported)
GeForce3
NV20

Configuration Details

Please refer to XF86Config(5x) for general configuration details. This section only covers configuration details specific to this driver.

The driver auto-detects the chipset type and the amount of video memory present for all chips.

The following driver Options are supported:

Option "HWCursor" "boolean"
Enable or disable the HW cursor. Default: on.
Option "NoAccel" "boolean"
Disable or enable acceleration. Default: acceleration is enabled.
Option "UseFBDev" "boolean"
Enable or disable use of on OS-specific fb interface (and is not supported on all OSs). See fbdevhw(4) for further information. Default: off.
Option "Rotate" "CW"
Option "Rotate" "CCW"
Rotate the display clockwise or counterclockwise. This mode is unaccelerated. Default: no rotation.
Option "ShadowFB" "boolean"
Enable or disable use of the shadow framebuffer layer. Default: off.

See Also

XFree86(1) , XF86Config(5x) , xf86config(1) , Xserver(1) , X(7)

Authors

Authors include: David McKay, Jarno Paananen, Chas Inman, Dave Schmenk, Mark Vojkovich

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