NV(4)NV(4)NAMEnv - NVIDIA video driver
SYNOPSIS
Section "Device"
Identifier "devname"
Driver "nv"
...
EndSection
DESCRIPTIONnv 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
GeForce3 NV20
CONFIGURATION DETAILS
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: accelera-
tion is enabled.
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Option "UseFBDev" "boolean"
Enable or disable use of on OS-specific fb inter-
face (and is not supported on all OSs). See fbde-
vhw(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. See shadowfb(4) for further information.
Default: off.
SEE ALSOXFree86(1), XF86Config(5), xf86config(1), Xserver(1), X(7)AUTHORS
Authors include: David McKay, Jarno Paananen, Chas Inman,
Dave Schmenk, Mark Vojkovich
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