whizse

These video tutorials are also a good start: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjyuVPBuorqIhlqZtoIvn...

Make: Electronics is a great introduction and a lot of fun. http://www.makershed.com/products/make-electronics-book

There are workarounds for broken behaviour though: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/tree/src/mesa/drivers/...

I think that in some cases the developers (at least Intel) have reached out to game developers first, to get them to fix their own bugs/out of spec behavior.