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It seems I was using a faulty test to see if CUDA was working.
Apparently the version of Blender that comes with 14.04, is not compiled
with CUDA support. Running the latest version of Blender from
blender.org got working CUDA support without doing anything beyond
installing nvidia-modprob, nvidia-352 and libcuda1-352.

I second the original ticket, that nvidia-modprobe should probably be
added to the dependencies, but it seems like you're working on a
different solution there, so this probably wont be a problem in the near
future.

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Title:
  nvidia-graphics-drivers-* should recommend nvidia-modprobe

Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331-updates package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340-updates package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346-updates package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  nvidia-modprobe allows non-root users to load NVIDIA kernel modules and it creates the respective device entries. This is important for CUDA users as they would otherwise have to run a workaround script to load the kernel modules and create the device entries. This is documented here:
  http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/6_5/rel/docs/CUDA_Getting_Started_Linux.pdf -> 4.8 Verification

  Because of this newer nvidia-graphics-drivers packages (331 and newer)
  should at least recommend nvidia-modprobe. Furthermore the nvidia-
  modprobe is not available from xorg-edgers. Utopic includes an nvidia-
  modprobe package though.

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