xenial (1) nvidia-modprobe.1.gz

Provided by: nvidia-modprobe_361.28-1_amd64 bug

NAME
       nvidia-modprobe - Load the NVIDIA kernel module and create NVIDIA character device files.


SYNOPSIS
       nvidia-modprobe [options]
       nvidia-modprobe [options] --create-nvidia-device-file=MINOR-NUMBER
       nvidia-modprobe [options] --module-instance=MODULE-INSTANCE


DESCRIPTION
       The nvidia-modprobe utility is used by user-space NVIDIA driver components to make sure the NVIDIA kernel
       module is loaded and that the NVIDIA character device files are present.  These facilities  are  normally
       provided  by  Linux distribution configuration systems such as udev.  When possible, it is recommended to
       use your Linux distribution'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 kernel module and then exit. When the
       --module-instance option is specified on systems with multiple  NVIDIA  kernel  modules,  nvidia-modprobe
       will  load  the  corresponding  NVIDIA  kernel 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.

       -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.


ADVANCED OPTIONS
       -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.


EXAMPLES
       nvidia-modprobe
              Run `/sbin/modprobe nvidia`

       nvidia-modprobe -c 0 -c 1
              Run `/sbin/modprobe nvidia` and create /dev/nvidia0 and /dev/nvidia1

       nvidia-modprobe -i 0
              Run `/sbin/modprobe nvidia0`


AUTHOR
       Andy Ritger
       NVIDIA Corporation


       Copyright © 2013 NVIDIA Corporation.