1NOUVEAU(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual NOUVEAU(4)
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6 nouveau - NVIDIA video driver
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9 Section "Device"
10 Identifier "devname"
11 Driver "nouveau"
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16 nouveau is an Xorg driver for NVIDIA video cards. The driver supports
17 2D acceleration and provides support for the following framebuffer
18 depths: (15,) 16 and 24. TrueColor visuals are supported for these
19 depths.
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23 The nouveau driver supports PCI, PCI-Express and AGP video cards based
24 on the following NVIDIA chips:
25 RIVA TNT NV4
27 RIVA TNT2 NV5
29 GeForce 256, QUADRO NV10
31 GeForce2, QUADRO2 NV11 & NV15
33 GeForce3, QUADRO DCC NV20
35 nForce, nForce2 NV1A, NV1F
37 GeForce4, QUADRO4 NV17, NV18, NV25, NV28
39 GeForce FX, QUADRO FX NV30, NV31, NV34, NV35, NV36, NV37, NV38
41 GeForce 6XXX NV40, NV41, NV43, NV44, NV45, C51, MCP61
43 GeForce 7XXX G70, G71, G72, G73, MCP67, MCP68, MCP73
45 GeForce 8XXX, 9XXX, 2XX, 3XX
47 G80, G84, G86, G92, G94, G96, G98, G200, GT215,
48 GT216, GT218, MCP77, MCP79, MCP89
49 GeForce 4XX, 5XX GF100, GF104, GF106, GF108, GF110, GF114, GF116,
51 GF117, GF119
52 GeForce 6XX, 7XX GK104, GK106, GK107, GK110, GK208
54 GeForce GTX 750 GM107, GM108
56 GeForce GTX 9XX GM200, GM204, GM206
58 GeForce GTX 10XX GP102, GP104, GP106, GP107, GP108
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63 Please refer to xorg.conf(5) for general configuration details. This
64 section only covers configuration details specific to this driver.
65 The driver auto-detects the chipset type and the amount of video memory
67 present for all chips.
68 The following driver Options are supported:
70 Option "HWCursor" "boolean"
72 Enable or disable the HW cursor. Default: on.
73 Option "AccelMethod" "string"
75 Specify the acceleration method. One of "none", or "exa". De‐
76 fault: exa.
77 Option "NoAccel" "boolean"
79 Disable or enable acceleration. Default: acceleration is en‐
80 abled.
81 Option "ShadowFB" "boolean"
83 Enable or disable use of the shadow framebuffer layer. Default:
84 off.
85 Option "WrappedFB" "boolean"
87 Enable or disable wfb, only affects nv50+. Useful for some
88 legacy configurations where high rendering latency is perceived.
89 Default: wfb is disabled.
90 Option "GLXVBlank" "boolean"
92 Synchronize GLX clients to VBlank. Useful where tearing is a
93 problem, harmful if the GPU isn't fast enough to keep up with
94 the monitor refresh rate. Default: on.
95 Option "ZaphodHeads" "string"
97 Specify the randr output(s) to use with zaphod mode for a par‐
98 ticular driver instance. If you use this option you most use
99 this option for all instances of the driver.
100 For example: Option "ZaphodHeads" "LVDS,VGA-0" will assign
101 xrandr outputs LVDS and VGA-0 to this instance of the driver.
102 Option "PageFlip" "boolean"
104 Enable DRI2 page flipping. Default: on.
105 Option "SwapLimit" "integer"
107 Set maximum allowed number of pending OpenGL double-buffer swaps
108 for a drawable before a client is blocked.
109 A value of 1 corresponds to double-buffering. A value of 2 cor‐
110 responds to triple-buffering. Higher values may allow higher
111 framerate, but also increase lag for interactive applications,
112 e.g., games. Nouveau currently reliably supports a maximum value
113 of 2 on XOrg 1.12+. A maximum setting of 2 on older x-servers is
114 allowed, but it will break conformance with the OpenML
115 OML_sync_control specification and will cause failure of soft‐
116 ware that relies on correct presentation timing behaviour as de‐
117 fined in that specification.
118 Default: 1.
119 Option "DRI" "integer"
121 Define the maximum level of DRI to enable. Valid values are 2 or
122 3. exa acceleration will honor the maximum level if it is sup‐
123 ported. Default: 2.
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126 Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5), Xserver(1), X(7)
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129 Authors include: David McKay, Jarno Paananen, Chas Inman, Dave Schmenk,
130 Mark Vojkovich
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