nvidia-driver-supported-branches


nvidia-driver-supported-branches finds the latest Nvidia driver series info that supports
your Nvidia graphics card. This information should help in installing the proper Nvidia driver.

Usage: nvidia-driver-supported-branches [options] [parameters]

Options:
  -t, --timeout     Timeout in seconds for operations that fetch driver data from nvidia.com.
                    Default: 30
  -a, --all         (Show status for all available driver branches.)
                    NOTE: this option does nothing due to implementation change.

  -h, --help        This help.

Parameters:
  card_id           Nvidia card id (4 hex numbers, lower case letters).
                    Example: 1b83
                    Note: card_id is an optional parameter.

Tip: the "card_id" value can be found with command:

  lspci -vnn | grep -P 'VGA|3D|Display' | sed -E 's|.*\[10de:([0-9a-f]*)\].*|\1|'

See also: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix