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NV(4)			     XFree86			    NV(4)



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, True Color and DirectColor visuals are supported for the other depths with the exception of the Riva128 which only sup ports TrueColor in the higher depths. Multi-head configu rations 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(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. 4.2.0 Version 1 NV(4) XFree86 NV(4) 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. Default: off.
SEE ALSO
XFree86(1), XF86Config(5), xf86config(1), Xserver(1), X(7)
AUTHORS
Authors include: David McKay, Jarno Paananen, Chas Inman, Dave Schmenk, Mark Vojkovich 4.2.0 Version 2

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