docs: VRAM booster works with NVIDIA's open kernel modules (driver 615+); only the closed driver is greyed out

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@@ -263,8 +263,10 @@ SteamOS 3.9 manages the dGPU's VRAM per cgroup: the game in front is
protected, background apps are evicted first. Without it a game that needs
most of the VRAM (8 GB on the Steam Machine) can be pushed into system RAM
by the desktop and other apps, and stutter. The kernel side is the `dmem`
cgroup controller (7.2); amdgpu and Intel's xe register their VRAM with it,
NVIDIA's driver doesn't: with an NVIDIA card the option is shown greyed
cgroup controller (7.2); amdgpu and Intel's xe register their VRAM with it
(`drm/<pci>/vram`), NVIDIA's open kernel modules from driver 615 too
(`nvidia/<pci>/vidmem`); `dmemcg-booster` protects every region it lists,
whatever its name. NVIDIA's closed modules don't: with such a card the option is shown greyed
out, with why, until its driver lists a region: then it's offered like any
other (`WIZARD_VRAM_FAKE_NVIDIA=1` fakes the grey-out, `WIZARD_VRAM_CAPACITY=<file>`
reads the regions from a copy, for tests). Otherwise