Bug#663401: Nvidia developer driver

[Douglas A. Augusto]

Package: nvidia-kernel-dkms
Version: 295.20-1
Severity: wishlist


Dear nvidia-kernel-dkms maintainers,

I'm using Nvidia graphics cards exclusively for GP-GPU computation through
OpenCL. It's known that the appropriate drivers for this type of workload are
the ones named "developer drivers" [1], currently at version 285.05.33 [2].
They are optimized for GP-GPU computing and, according to my experience, they
are more robust and stable.

While one could install this driver directly from the script provided by
Nvidia, it would be much more convenient if it were packaged and available
from Debian's repository, as with the standard Nvidia drivers. I would
suggest something like "nvidia-kernel-developer-dkms".

1. http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit-41
2. http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/4_1/rel/drivers/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-285.05.33.run


Best regards,

-- 
Douglas A. Augusto