used by Debian for building some modules, e.g. nvidia You need it, if for your kernel no nvidia driver is available or does not build Most simple situation (just rebuild): sudo dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-kernel-dkms Sources and Modules can be found below: /var/lib/dkms/nvidia-current/319.82 to build it: dkms build -m nvidia-current -v 319.82 dkms install -m nvidia-current -v 319.82 remove following files: /lib/modules/3.14-0.bpo.2-amd64/updates/dkms/nvidia-current.ko /var/lib/dkms/nvidia-current/319.82/3.14-0.bpo.2-amd64/x86_64/