NVIDIA Drops Their Open-Source Driver, Refers Users To VESA Driver Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 26 March 2010 at 05:17 PM EDT. Page 1 of 1. 107 Comments. NVIDIA's open-source Linux efforts as it concerns their GPU support have historically been minimal. The xf86-video-nv driver has been around that provides very basic 2D acceleration and a crippled set of features besides that