====== Getting nvml_fix to work adequately on Debian ======

[[https://github.com/CFSworks/nvml_fix|nvml_fix]] is an excelent piece of hackery. It gets your ''nvidia-smi'' showing some stats usually only “supported” on flagship GPU's. Go check out the link for more information. 

There's a small perk, though. README mentions ''dpkg-divert'' etc. but it won't solve the problem. Install nvidia-smi package as normal, then rename the symbolic link ''libnvidia-ml.so.1'' to ''libnvidia-ml.so.VERSION'' (like ''...so.666.66''). Then do the ''make install'' accordingly. The reason is: ''libnvidia-ml.so.1'' is nvml_fix hacking itself into the middle, but it still needs to find the original Nvidia library. If you run ''ldd libnvidia-ml.so.1'', you can see where it expects to find the original library. 

{{ :nvidia_smi_and_gpu_stat.png |}}
And //voilà//... 

Source: //idk//, I just ran into that mess a bit too many times.