It should show something like this: PCI:1:0:0 Step 5: Now we have to find bus id of our nvidia card: nvidia-xconfig -query-gpu-info | grep 'BusID : ' | cut -d ' ' -f6 Whether its from Kali's repo or Nvidia's website, procedure is same. Step 4: Install nvidia driver from kali repo: apt-get install nvidia-driver nvidia-xconfig If shows nothing,means nouveau successfully disabled. Verify if nouveau is disabled: lsmod |grep -i nouveau Step 3: System will reboot and nouveau should be disabled. Step 2: Disable nouveau echo -e "blacklist nouveau\noptions nouveau modeset=0\nalias nouveau off" > /etc/modprobe.d/nf Step 1: Verify you have hybrid graphics lspci | grep -E "VGA|3D"Ġ0:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 620 (rev 07)Ġ1:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP108M (rev a1) Tutorial found on official Kali website is BROKEN! It never works for optimus/hybrid Graphics enabled laptop This tutorial is for official NVIDIA Driver Linux europa 4.14.0-kali3-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.14.17-1kali1 () x86_64 GNU/LinuxĭISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Kali GNU/Linux Rolling" You might get a black screen and won't be able to login via the GUI.įirst of all let me tell you the specifications of my system-ĬPU - Intel® Core™ i5-8250U CPU 1.60GHz × 8 According to he mentioned in their website you might be able to successfully install the packages - ocl-icd-libopencl1, nvidia-driver, nvidia-cuda-toolkit but you might encounter issues during the reboot. The main reason I'm writing this post is to let you know that the tutorial found on Kali's official website is broken as of date 11 April 2018. After spending few days on how-tos and debugging the black screen issue on boot after insalling the nvidia drivers, I was finally able to find a solution to all my problems.
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