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nv - NVIDIA video driver
Section "Device"
Identifier "devname"
Driver "nv"
...
EndSection
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.
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
Please refer to XF86Config(5)
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.
XFree86(1)
, XF86Config(5)
, xf86config(1)
, Xserver(1)
, X(7)
Authors
include: David McKay, Jarno Paananen, Chas Inman, Dave Schmenk, Mark Vojkovich
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