Archive for March, 2008

What are Device Drivers?

Monday, March 31st, 2008

drk:

A device driver is a piece of software that enables your computer to communicate with external hardware, such as a printer. Think of device drivers as вЂ?bridges’ that translate the command you initiate on your PC into a format that the …

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NVIDIA drivers, the leading cause of Vista crashes?

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound):

NVIDIA or Microsoft? I place fault equally between the two companies: NVIDIA for releasing drivers that lacked proper testing and Microsoft for their failure to provide adequate support to its third party vendors. …

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IOCTL in kernel space (no replies)

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Giveaway of the Day project team:

I would like to know how to use ioctl inside a driver module.I know this is not a good way of making things in kernel programming but I need to do that to satisfy the requirement of the system. In user space I can do ioctl(fd,TIOCMGET …

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An epic moment - compiling your first kernel

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Mojo:

On the beaches of Mexico this past spring break I cracked open the O’Reilly book Linux Device Drivers (pause and picture that for a moment) in an effort to become better acquainted with OS Development and the general GNU community. …

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Latest nVidia drivers fix foliage issues

Monday, March 31st, 2008

[21CW]News Bot:

Users of nVidia video cards should head over to nVidia’s Driver Support Site and grab the latest 174.74 drivers. In addition to fixing issues in… More…

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Desperately Seeking Drivers … for Windows Vista SP1

Monday, March 31st, 2008

mcantamesse:

Public is going to have a heck of a time finding these drivers. They’re probably going to just ignore the whole thing. Now, hopefully Microsoft will directly offer replacement drivers in Windows Update, but to this point, nothing. …

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Nvidia responsible for Windows Vista crashes

Monday, March 31st, 2008

CDsDontBurn:

It has now been reported by Microsoft that Nvidia PC Graphics Cards have been chiefly responsible for the crashing of the Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system. (more…)

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Crashing Vista: nVidia drivers responsible for 30%

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

mvvdsteen:

Nearly 30% of logged Vista crashes were due to NVIDIA driver problems, according to a Microsoft data included in the bundle. That’s some 479326 hung systems, if you’re keeping score at home, and it’s in first place by a large margin …

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collecting data for later use (4 replies)

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Dmitry Vostokov:

I have the ath5k driver from which I’m collecting data, something like a million samples. I want to use this data, say for plotting using MATLAB. One option I know is writing to a file, but it is not recommended I read but would like to …

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Missing Drivers

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

MoneyNing:

experience is MISSING DRIVERS. For instance, every time I put this desktop to sleep, when I wake it up there’s no Internet connection. The manufacturer has confirmed that this is a Windows Vista issue (a driver that hasn’t been released …

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