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## 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 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.

## 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, QUADRO DCC
  NV20
nForce, nForce2
  NV1A, NV1F
GeForce4, QUADRO4
  NV17, NV18, NV25, NV28

## 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(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.

## See Also

XFree86(1) , XF86Config(4) , xf86config(1) , Xserver(1) , X(7)

## Authors

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

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