system, a device driver is a computer program that operates or controls a particular type of device that is attached to a computer. A driver provides a...

driver wrapper is a subroutine in a software library that functions as an adapter between an operating system and a driver, such as a device driver,...

In Unix-like operating systems, a device file, device node, or special file is an interface to a device driver that appears in a file system as if it were...

computing, the Windows Driver Model (WDM) – also known at one point as the Win32 Driver Model – is a framework for device drivers that was introduced with...

criteria. For each device, users can: Supply device drivers in accordance with the Windows Driver Model Enable or disable devices Tell Windows to ignore...

modern urban and suburban railway systems, the driver is typically alone in an enclosed cab. Automatic devices were already beginning to be deployed on newer...

A device driver handling a virtual device. VxD, a type of Windows device driver running in 32-bit protected mode. This disambiguation page lists articles...

A free and open-source graphics device driver is a software stack which controls computer-graphics hardware and supports graphics-rendering application...

class driver is a type of hardware device driver that can operate a large number of different devices of a broadly similar type. Class drivers are very...

that cross the driver's upper body pass directly over the HANS device on the driver's shoulders and buckle at the center of the driver's abdomen. Therefore...

provides an application programming interface (API) for sound card device drivers. Some of the goals of the ALSA project at its inception were automatic...

well. Each driver is composed out of five parts: Linux kernel component DRM Linux kernel component KMS driver: basically the device driver for the display...

A filter driver is a Microsoft Windows driver that extends or modifies the function of peripheral devices or supports a specialized device in the personal...

virtualized environment: xf86-video-qxl, a driver for the "QXL video device". SPICE makes use of this driver though it works without it as well. In the...

loop device functionality using different names. In Linux, device names are encoded in the symbol table entries of their corresponding device drivers. The...

controls all hardware resources (e.g. I/O, memory, cryptography) via device drivers, arbitrates conflicts between processes concerning such resources, and...

Windows and VDPAU on Linux and FreeBSD. The free and open-source graphics device driver#ATI/AMD also support UVD. OpenCL accelerates many scientific software...

standard hardware device of Amiga dealing with printers), and the standard parallel.device (which controlled parallel port) and the driver would then control...

supported by AMD Catalyst and by the free and open-source graphics device driver#ATI/AMD. OpenCL accelerates many scientific Software Packages against...

standard instruction set architecture-specific device drivers, EFI provides for a ISA-independent device driver stored in non-volatile memory as EFI byte code...

referred to as a blob or binary blob. The term usually refers to a device driver module loaded into the kernel of an open-source operating system, and...

libdrm wrapper functions. In addition, drivers export device-specific interfaces for use by user-space drivers and device-aware applications through ioctls...

supervisor or kernel mode. Traditional operating system functions, such as device drivers, protocol stacks and file systems, are typically removed from the microkernel...

supported by AMD Catalyst and by the free and open-source graphics device driver. During 2014 the Radeon R9 200 series GPUs offered a very competitive...

to Unix, all source files of Linux are freely available, including device drivers. The initial success of Linux was driven by programmers and testers...

capable of doing such decoding work). This device driver restriction has led to the development of a third party driver patch, "ExDeus ATI HD Registry Tweak"...

video GPU capable of XvBA video acceleration requires a X11 software device driver to enable these features. Currently only AMD's ATI Radeon graphics cards...

code. Request codes are often device-specific. For instance, a CD-ROM device driver which can instruct a physical device to eject a disc would provide...

Uniform Driver Interface (UDI) is a defunct project developed by several companies to define a portable interface for device drivers. The Uniform Driver Interface...

well. Each driver is composed out of five parts: Linux kernel component DRM Linux kernel component KMS driver: basically the device driver for the display...