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A device driver or software driver is a computer program allowing higher-level computer programs to interact with a hardware device.

A driver typically communicates with the device through the computer bus or communications subsystem to which the hardware connects. Drivers are hardware-dependent and operating-system-specific.

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What's the proper build environment for an oem.tgz under esxi 4.1

I've got an unsupported SATA card that I want to use under esxi. Not really a problem -- I'm not planning on asking for support for this system; it's mostly a basement computer that I'll use for fiddling around with esxi or olive or opensolaris or…
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How do you map a virtual drive letter to a net work path on Windows

There are two computers PC1, PC2, there is a fold named: D:\Soft in PC1, and I want to use just one copy of soft. so I used psubst to create a virtual driver D: in PC2 like below, and it works very well until I restart the PC2, the problem is that…
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HP laserjet 1022n problems on windows server 2003 R2

Our HP laserjet 1022n works fine on everything except whenever it is asked to print a document with some sizes of calibri type font, instead of printing normally, it spews out gibberish (things like &"*#$-#"-% instead of the word "maintenance") I…
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Using Built-In Drivers for Print Server

I have an HP LaserJet 4 Plus that I'd like to be able to map (TCP/IP) to my users. I have to give a location for the printer so that the client computer knows where to find the driver. This would be no problem if I add the x86 printer drivers to the…
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HP universal print driver on Samsung SCX5935FN

Recently we've been faced with a very odd issue; our Samsung SCX5935FN skips the numbers "6" and "8" whenever it is asked to print a document. Everything else within the document is printed correctly, except for those numbers, it is as if those…
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ESX Server Setup cannot detect my LAN card

I want to install esx server on my system that has LAN card, (Realtec RTL-8110sc) How to install it? thanks
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Updating PHP mySQL drivers when updating mySQL

I have apache, php, and mysql all installed from source. When I update mySQL to the latest version (5.1.46), do I need to update anything on the php side for it to be able to work with the new version? Many Thanks Edit: I'm updating from 5.1.45
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What port does OpenLink ODBC Driver use?

I use Avaya Reporting Services and OpenLink ODBC Drivers for db connection. I know that it uses port 5000 for handshaking but after that I believe it uses an random port for communication. I want to deploy my application and it will communicate with…
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Server shutdown hangs (when oss/lynxtwo driver does not load properly)

I have re-installed Ubuntu 22.04.2 in my server used primarily for audio via OSS driver (v4) with LynxTwo card. It worked well for few days but then the reboot/shutdown started to hang (had to power off manually). When I restart, the oss driver does…
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Roll back HP Universal Print Driver

I recently installed the latest PostScript HP Universal Print Driver on my Windows print server, but it turned out that the driver was buggy. I reverted the server virtual machine to a snapshot taken before the upgrade, so the server is fine. Some…
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How does the mlx5 driver use the IOVA generated by IOMMU as DMA address?

I have enabled IOMMU on the physical machine. I expect the RDMA NIC to use the IOVA allocated by the IOMMU module for DMA after enabling IOMMU. However, in reality, the RDMA NIC does not use the IOVA for DMA： enter image description here I found…
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How do I edit a PPD file for CUPS?

I have a networked printer (Canon iP8720) and it mostly works just fine out of the box with CUPS on Kubuntu 22.10. However the printer is capable of borderless printing, higher resolution than the 600dpi it's presently limited to, and a few other…
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How do I fix amdgpu and amdgpu-dkms packages not installing?

I'm trying to install the amdgpu package and it throws a bunch of errors: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer…
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Cannot use integrated audio on GA-MA74GM-S2 on FreeBSD

I'm trying to configure a home-server for using as sound-server among other uses. MB is GA-MA74GM-S2 (dmidecode confirmed), with Realtek ALC888 codec on it. As I understand, this soundcard must work with snd_hda driver but it doesn't. I added…
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Windows Upgrade Removed Tag in Service Definition in Registry

We noticed that after upgrading Windows in place (from 2016->2019), our custom driver entries in the registry lost their "tag" key. The tag key is necessary for the driver to load upon boot. Furthermore, the sc.exe config command purports to update…
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