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Repair version for open-kernel NVIDIA version driver (LINUX) #2128
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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
Open
in/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