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[Romaine Rose-Cameron <rrc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm using Linux MInt 17.1 which uses Trusty and 'nvidia-modprobe' isnt a
package i can install, it doesnt come with nvidia-331 or nvidia-340 (343
and 346 dont support my card so i havent bothered to test) as i'm sure
it did along with a few other programs that havent been availible in the
last few days like nvidia-smi and nvidia-xconfig, even that dodgy
persistenced thing.  I'll make another, more detailed bug rebort on that
as it's pretty much off topic.  I'm just letting you know i cant get
nvidia-modprobe using any of the methods suggested.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1361207

Title:
  [xorg-edgers] nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 and newer 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:
  New

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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