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nouveau - NVIDIA video driver

  Section Device
   Identifier devname
   Driver nouveau
    ...
  EndSection

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, MCP61

GeForce 7XXX

G70, G71, G72, G73, MCP67, MCP68, MCP73

GeForce 8XXX, 9XXX, 2XX, 3XX

G80, G84, G86, G92, G94, G96, G98, G200, GT215, GT216, GT218, MCP77, MCP79, MCP89

GeForce 4XX, 5XX

GF100, GF104, GF106, GF108, GF110, GF114, GF116, GF117, GF119

GeForce 6XX, 7XX

GK104, GK106, GK107, GK110, GK208

GeForce GTX 750

GM107, GM108

GeForce GTX 9XX

GM200, GM204, GM206

GeForce GTX 10XX

GP102, GP104, GP106, GP107, GP108

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 AccelMethod string

Specify the acceleration method. One of none, or exa. Default: exa.

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.

Option GLXVBlank boolean

Synchronize GLX clients to VBlank. Useful where tearing is a problem, harmful if the GPU isn’t fast enough to keep up with the monitor refresh rate. Default: on.

Option ZaphodHeads string

Specify the randr output(s) to use with zaphod mode for a particular driver instance. If you use this option you most use this option for all instances of the driver.
For example: Option ZaphodHeads LVDS,VGA-0 will assign xrandr outputs LVDS and VGA-0 to this instance of the driver.

Option PageFlip boolean

Enable DRI2 page flipping. Default: on.

Option SwapLimit integer

Set maximum allowed number of pending OpenGL double-buffer swaps for a drawable before a client is blocked.
A value of 1 corresponds to double-buffering. A value of 2 corresponds to triple-buffering. Higher values may allow higher framerate, but also increase lag for interactive applications, e.g., games. Nouveau currently reliably supports a maximum value of 2 on XOrg 1.12+. A maximum setting of 2 on older x-servers is allowed, but it will break conformance with the OpenML OML_sync_control specification and will cause failure of software that relies on correct presentation timing behaviour as defined in that specification.
Default: 1.

Option DRI integer

Define the maximum level of DRI to enable. Valid values are 2 or 3. exa acceleration will honor the maximum level if it is supported. Default: 2.

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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