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Repair version for open-kernel NVIDIA version driver (LINUX)#2128
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…for open and proprietary NVIDIA version driver
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…open-kernel NVIDIA version driver (LINUX) Upstream PR: dylanaraps/neofetch#2128 Thanks to @TheRealOne78 Co-authored-by: TheRealOne78 <bajcsielias78@gmail.com>
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Thank you for your contribution! This PR is merged into hyfetch since this repo (dylanaraps/neofetch) seems no longer maintained. HyFetch is a fork of neofetch with LGBTQ pride flags, but the repo also serves as an updated version of neofetch, addressing many pull requests that are not merged in the original repo. |
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Description
This PR repairs how NVIDIA drivers should get their version.
The new NVIDIA open-kernel driver has the new word
Openin/proc/driver/nvidia/version.The way NVIDIA recommends to get the NVIDIA version is by getting it from
/sys/module/nvidia/version.By using the old method, neofetch would output the NVIDIA driver like this:

This PR solves this problem:

See NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules#297 for more information regarding the new open-kernel NVIDIA driver