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2. nouveau (software) - Wikipedia

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   In the middle: the FOSS stack, composed out of DRM & KMS driver, libDRM and Mesa 3D.Right side: Proprietary drivers: Kernel BLOB and User-space components. nouveau (/ n uː ˈ v oʊ /) is a free and open-source graphics device driver for Nvidia video cards and the Tegra family of SoCs written by independent software engineers, with minor help from Nvidia employees.

3. Free and open-source graphics device driver - Wikipedia

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   Based on this understanding, device drivers may be written and legally published under any software license. In rare cases, a manufacturer's driver source code is available on the Internet without a free license. This means that the code can be studied and altered for personal use, but the altered (and usually the original) source code cannot ...

4. GeForce - Wikipedia

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   The most prominent alternative driver is the reverse-engineered free and open-source nouveau graphics device driver. Nvidia has publicly announced to not provide any support for such additional device drivers for their products, [60] although Nvidia has contributed code to the Nouveau driver. [61]

5. Mesa (computer graphics) - Wikipedia

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   Several free and open-source graphics device drivers, which have been, or are being written based on information gained through clean-room reverse engineering, adopted the driver model provided by Gallium3D, e.g. nouveau and others (see Free and open-source graphics device driver for a complete list). The main reason may be that the Gallium3D ...

6. Windows Display Driver Model - Wikipedia

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   If a WDDM driver hangs or encounters a fault, the graphics stack will restart the driver. [2] [9] A graphics hardware fault will be intercepted and if necessary the driver will be reset. Drivers under Windows XP were free to deal with hardware faults as they saw fit either by reporting it to the user or by attempting to recover silently.

7. Graphics card - Wikipedia

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   A modern consumer graphics card: A Radeon RX 6900 XT from AMD. A graphics card (also called a video card, display card, graphics accelerator, graphics adapter, VGA card/VGA, video adapter, display adapter, or colloquially GPU) is a computer expansion card that generates a feed of graphics output to a display device such as a monitor.

8. nForce3 - Wikipedia

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   SiS, ULi and VIA also had problems with their chipset drivers (mainly agp.inf), but quickly released patches to correct these issues. In February 2007, Nvidia said that the problem will most likely be resolved with an "MCP driver update." [1] To date, Nvidia has not released a complete chipset driver package for nForce3 and Windows Vista.

9. GPU virtualization - Wikipedia

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   For certain GPU models, Nvidia and AMD video card drivers attempt to detect the GPU is being accessed by a virtual machine and disable some or all GPU features. [35] NVIDIA has recently changed virtualization rules for consumer GPUs by disabling the check in GeForce Game Ready driver 465.xx and later.