NV(7)

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 visuals are supported for the other 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

CONFIGURATION DETAILS
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(7) 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(7) for further information. Default: off.

SEE ALSO
XFree86(1), XF86Config(4), xf86config(1), Xserver(1), X(5)

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