1 .\" shorthand for double quote that works everywhere.
3 .TH NOUVEAU __drivermansuffix__ __vendorversion__
5 nouveau \- NVIDIA video driver
8 .B "Section \*qDevice\*q"
9 .BI " Identifier \*q" devname \*q
10 .B " Driver \*qnouveau\*q"
16 is an __xservername__ driver for NVIDIA video cards. The driver supports 2D
17 acceleration and provides support for the following framebuffer depths:
18 (15,) 16 and 24. TrueColor visuals are supported for these depths.
20 .SH SUPPORTED HARDWARE
23 driver supports PCI, PCI-Express and AGP video cards based on the following NVIDIA chips:
31 .B GeForce 256, QUADRO
37 .B GeForce3, QUADRO DCC
44 NV17, NV18, NV25, NV28
46 .B GeForce FX, QUADRO FX
47 NV30, NV31, NV34, NV35, NV36, NV37, NV38
50 NV40, NV41, NV43, NV44, NV45, C51
55 .SH CONFIGURATION DETAILS
56 Please refer to __xconfigfile__(__filemansuffix__) for general configuration
57 details. This section only covers configuration details specific to this
60 The driver auto-detects the chipset type and the amount of video memory
61 present for all chips.
67 .BI "Option \*qHWCursor\*q \*q" boolean \*q
68 Enable or disable the HW cursor. Default: on.
70 .BI "Option \*qNoAccel\*q \*q" boolean \*q
71 Disable or enable acceleration. Default: acceleration is enabled.
73 .BI "Option \*qRandR12\*q \*q" boolean \*q
74 Disable or enable use of improved mode-setting code. Default: RandR12 is enabled.
76 .BI "Option \*qFlatPanel\*q \*q" boolean \*q
77 The driver usually can autodetect the presence of a digital flat panel. In
78 the case that this fails, this option can be used to force the driver to
79 treat the attached device as a digital flat panel. With this
80 driver, a digital flat panel will work only if it was POSTed by the BIOS,
81 that is, the computer must have booted to the panel.
82 Default: autodetected.
84 .BI "Option \*qFPDither\*q \*q" boolean \*q
85 Many digital flat panels (particularly ones on laptops) have only 6 bits
86 per component color resolution.
87 This option tells the driver to dither from 8 bits per component to 6 before
88 the flat panel truncates it.
91 .BI "Option \*qFPScale\*q \*q" boolean \*q
92 Supported only on GeForce4 and newer chips, this option
93 tells to the driver to scale lower resolutions up to the flat panel's native
94 resolution. Default: on.
96 .BI "Option \*qScalingMode\*q \*q" string \*q
97 Only for the randr-1.2 driver, this allows to set the DFP scaling mode.
98 The options are "fullscreen", "aspect", "noscale" and "panel". Default: "aspect".
100 .BI "Option \*qShadowFB\*q \*q" boolean \*q
101 Enable or disable use of the shadow framebuffer layer. Default: off.
103 .BI "Option \*qPrepareFinishAccess\*q \*q" boolean \*q
104 Enable or disable use of PrepareFinishAccess hooks in exa, this should only be disabled if
105 the xserver aborts saying that PrepareAccess failed on a pinned pixmap.
106 This is bug that has been fixed in more recent xservers. Default: on.
108 __xservername__(__appmansuffix__), __xconfigfile__(__filemansuffix__), Xserver(__appmansuffix__), X(__miscmansuffix__)
110 Authors include: David McKay, Jarno Paananen, Chas Inman, Dave Schmenk,
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