NOUVEAU(4) NOUVEAU(4)NAME nouveau - NVIDIA video driverSYNOPSIS Section "Device" Identifier "devname" Driver "nouveau" ... EndSectionDESCRIPTION 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.SUPPORTED HARDWARE 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, G73CONFIGURATION DETAILS 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 "HWCursor" "boolean" Enable or disable the HW cursor. Default: on. Option "NoAccel" "boolean" Disable or enable acceleration. Default: acceleration is enabled. Option "ShadowFB" "boolean" Enable or disable use of the shadow framebuffer layer. Default: off. Option "WrappedFB" "boolean" Enable or disable wfb, only affects nv50+. Useful for some legacy configurations where high rendering latency is perceived. Default: wfb is disabled.SEE ALSO Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5), Xserver(1), X(7)AUTHORS Authors include: David McKay, Jarno Paananen, Chas Inman, Dave Schmenk, Mark VojkovichCOPYRIGHT NOTICE TO USER: The source code is copyrighted under U.S. and international laws. Users and possessors of this source code are hereby granted a nonexclusive, royalty-free copyright license to use this code in individual and commercial software. Any use of this source code must include, in the user documentation and internal comments to the code, notices to the end user as follows: Copyright 1993-2003 NVIDIA, Corporation. All rights reserved. NVIDIA, CORPORATION MAKES NO REPRESENTATION ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OF THIS SOURCE CODE FOR ANY PURPOSE. IT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. NVIDIA, CORPORATION DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOURCE CODE, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, NONINFRINGEMENT, AND FITNESS FOR A PAR- TICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL NVIDIA, CORPORATION BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOURCE CODE. U.S. Government End Users. This source code is a "commercial item," as that term is defined at 48 C.F.R. 2.101 (OCT 1995), con- sisting of "commercial computer software" and "commercial computer software documentation," as such terms are used in 48 C.F.R. 12.212 (SEPT 1995) and is provided to the U.S. Government only as a commercial end item. Consistent with 48 C.F.R. 12.212 and 48 C.F.R. 227.7202-1 through 227.7202-4 (JUNE 1995), all U.S. Government End Users acquire the source code with only those rights set forth herein.X Version 11 xf86-video-nouveau 0.0.16 NOUVEAU(4)