Table of Contents
nv - NVIDIA video driver
Section "Device"
Identifier "devname"
Driver "nv"
...
EndSection
nv is an XFree86 driver for NVIDIA video cards. The driver
supports full 2D acceleration 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.
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, QUADRO DCC
- NV20
- nForce, nForce2
- NV1A, NV1F
- GeForce4,
QUADRO4
- NV17, NV18, NV25, NV28
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, NV18, NV1F and NV25 may 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.
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 "FPDither"
"boolean"
- Most digital flat panels have only 6 bits per component color
resolution. This option tells the driver to dither from 8 bits per component
to 6 before the flat panel truncates it. This is only suported in depth
24 on NV11, nForce2 and GeForce4. 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
Table of Contents