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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
- GeForce3
- NV20
- GeForce4, QUADRO4
- NV17
& NV25
Please refer to XF86Config(4)
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 "CrtcNumber" "integer"
- NV17 and NV25 can
have two video outputs. The driver attempts to autodetect which one the
monitor is connected to. In the case that autodetection picks the wrong
one, this option may be used to force usage of a particular output. The
options are "0" or "1". Default: autodetected.
- Option "FlatPanel" "boolean"
- This driver has experimental flat panel support for some chips. The driver
cannot autodetect the presence of a flat panel so this option must be set
when used with a flat panel. 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(4)
,
xf86config(1)
, Xserver(1)
, X(7)
Authors include: David McKay, Jarno
Paananen, Chas Inman, Dave Schmenk, Mark Vojkovich
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