nvidia-modprobe --version (return code: 0)
nvidia-modprobe: version 375.26 (buildd@debian) Fri Jan 13 02:05:49 UTC
2017
nvidia-modprobe --help (return code: 0)
nvidia-modprobe: version 375.26 (buildd@debian) Fri Jan 13 02:05:49 UTC
2017
This setuid program is used to create, in a Linux
distribution-independent way, NVIDIA Linux device files and load the
NVIDIA kernel module, on behalf of NVIDIA Linux driver components which
may not have sufficient privileges to perform these actions on their
own.
nvidia-modprobe [options]
-v, --version
Print the utility version and exit.
-h, --help
Print usage information for the command line options and exit.
-c MINOR-NUMBER, --create-nvidia-device-file=MINOR-NUMBER
Create the NVIDIA device file with the given minor number; this
option can be specified multiple times to create multiple NVIDIA
device files.
-i MODULE-INSTANCE, --module-instance=MODULE-INSTANCE
Load the required NVIDIA kernel module that corresponds to the
specified MODULE-INSTANCE value. The value should be between 0 and
7.
-u, --unified-memory
Load the NVIDIA Unified Memory kernel module or create device files
for it, instead of the NVIDIA kernel module.
-m, --modeset
Load the NVIDIA modeset kernel module and create its device file.