suse man page for nouveau

NOUVEAU(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual							NOUVEAU(4)

NAME
       nouveau - NVIDIA video driver

SYNOPSIS
       Section "Device"
	 Identifier "devname"
	 Driver "nouveau"
	 ...
       EndSection

DESCRIPTION
       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, G73

CONFIGURATION 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.

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

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

COPYRIGHT
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