[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#592482: Please include nvidia-smi

[Heine Larsen]

Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers
Version: 195.36.24-4
Severity: wishlist

The nvidia-graphics-driver package contains a system management interface program, 
nvidia-smi, to do some device management and monitoring of nvidia devices.

It can read temperature sensors on the GPU and configure compute mode for
CUDA applications. This is important for systems with several GPUs if you
want applications to have exclusive access to a GPU.

The nvidia-smi program has a strong dependency on the corresponding nvidia-driver version,
so it would be convenient to have it packaged along with the drivers, maybe in a separate
package. The relevant files in the "source" are:

NVIDIA-Linux-x86-195.36.24-pkg0/usr/bin/nvidia-smi
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-195.36.24-pkg0/usr/share/man/man1/nvidia-smi.1.gz
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-195.36.24-pkg2/usr/bin/nvidia-smi
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-195.36.24-pkg2/usr/share/man/man1/nvidia-smi.1.gz


Heine Larsen