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nvidia-modprobe(1) nvidia-modprobe(1)
NAME
nvidia-modprobe - Load the NVIDIA kernel module and create NVIDIA char‐
acter device files.
SYNOPSIS
nvidia-modprobe [options]
nvidia-modprobe [options] --create-nvidia-device-file=MINOR-NUMBER
DESCRIPTION
The nvidia-modprobe utility is used by user-space NVIDIA driver compo‐
nents to make sure the NVIDIA kernel module is loaded and that the
NVIDIA character device files are present. These facilities are nor‐
mally provided by Linux distribution configuration systems such as
udev. When possible, it is recommended to use your Linux distribu‐
tion's native mechanisms for managing kernel module loading and device
file creation. This utility is provided as a fallback to work out-of-
the-box in a distribution-independent way.
When installed by nvidia-installer , nvidia-modprobe is installed
setuid root.
Users should not normally need to run nvidia-modprobe by hand: the
NVIDIA user-space driver components will fork(2)/exec(3) it when
needed.
When run without any options, nvidia-modprobe will load the NVIDIA ker‐
nel module and then exit. When the --create-nvidia-device-file option
is specified, nvidia-modprobe will also create the requested device
file.
The source code to nvidia-modprobe is available here: ⟨ftp://
download.nvidia.com/XFree86/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.
EXAMPLES
nvidia-modprobe
Run `/sbin/modprobe nvidia`
nvidia-modprobe -c 0 -c 1
Run `/sbin/modprobe nvidia` and create /dev/nvidia0 and
/dev/nvidia1
AUTHOR
Andy Ritger
NVIDIA Corporation
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2013 NVIDIA Corporation.
nvidia-modprobe 325.15 2014-01-03 nvidia-modprobe(1)
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