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nouveau - NVIDIA video driver

Section \*qDevice\*q Identifier \*q devname \*q

Driver \*qnouveau\*q   ...

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nouveau is an Xorg driver for NVIDIA video cards. The driver supports 2D acceleration and provides support for the following framebuffer depths: (15,) 16 and 24. TrueColor visuals are supported for these depths.

The

nouveau driver supports PCI, PCI-Express and AGP video cards based on the following NVIDIA chips:

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

GeForce FX, QUADRO FX

                      NV30, NV31, NV34, NV35, NV36, NV37, NV38

GeForce 6XXX

                      NV40, NV41, NV43, NV44, NV45, C51

GeForce 7XXX

                      G70, G71, G72, G73

Please refer to xorg.conf(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 \*qHWCursor\*q \*q boolean \*q
      Enable or disable the HW cursor. Default: on.
• Option \*qNoAccel\*q \*q boolean \*q
      Disable or enable acceleration. Default: acceleration is enabled.
• Option \*qShadowFB\*q \*q boolean \*q
      Enable or disable use of the shadow framebuffer layer. Default: off.

Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5), Xserver(1), X(7)

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

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