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NV(4)							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,
       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.

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		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.

XFree86			Version 4.0.3				1

NV(4)							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.  See shadowfb(4)  for  further  information.
	      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

XFree86			Version 4.0.3				2

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