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Bug#746352: ITP: nvidia-modprobe -- utility to load nvidia kernel modules and create device nodes



Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>

* Package name    : nvidia-modprobe
  Version         : 334.16
  Upstream Author : NVIDIA Corporation
* URL             : ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nvidia-modprobe/
                    https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-modprobe
* License         : GPL2
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : utility to load nvidia kernel modules and create device nodes

Nvidia recently introduced a setuid:root tool to ease loading the nvidia
kernel modules and create corresponding device nodes. Using this tool
now seems mandatory: #745715

Instead of shipping the prebuilt binary (included in the driver blob) we
will re-compile it from source (like nvidia-settings and -xconfig).
Package will be maintained by the Debian NVIDIA Maintainers and placed
in contrib.

Andreas


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