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nv - NVIDIA video driver 
Section "Device"
  Identifier "devname"
  Driver "nv"
  ...
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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 
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: 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 "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(4)
 for further information.  Default: off.
XFree86(1)
, XF86Config(5)
, xf86config(1)
, Xserver(1)
, X(7)
 
Authors
include: David McKay, Jarno Paananen, Chas Inman, Dave Schmenk,  Mark Vojkovich
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