{"id":1230,"date":"2015-12-04T18:37:32","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T18:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/?p=1230"},"modified":"2023-07-01T11:18:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T16:18:39","slug":"how-to-install-nvidia-proprietary-drivers-on-kali-linux-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/how-to-install-nvidia-proprietary-drivers-on-kali-linux-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install NVIDIA Proprietary drivers on Kali Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Looks like the official docs have been updated.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kali.org\/docs\/general-use\/install-nvidia-drivers-on-kali-linux\/\">https:\/\/www.kali.org\/docs\/general-use\/install-nvidia-drivers-on-kali-linux\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">sudo apt update\nsudo apt -y full-upgrade -y\nsudo reboot<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>After the reboot, install the drivers with<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">sudo apt install -y nvidia-driver nvidia-cuda-toolkit\nsudo reboot<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Old Instructions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Leaving these here in case someone finds them helpful.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Run the following commands to update, and install the needed NVIDIA driver<\/p>\n<pre>apt-get update\napt-get dist-upgrade\napt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)\napt-get install nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-xconfig\n<\/pre>\n<p>Disable the nouveau driver, and reboot.<\/p>\n<pre>sed 's\/quiet\/quiet nouveau.modeset=0\/g' -i \/etc\/default\/grub\nupdate-grub\nnvidia-xconfig \nreboot\n<\/pre>\n<p>You also might want to install these.<\/p>\n<pre> apt-get install nvidia-settings nvidia-smi nvidia-cuda-toolkit<\/pre>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like the official docs have been updated. https:\/\/www.kali.org\/docs\/general-use\/install-nvidia-drivers-on-kali-linux\/ sudo apt update sudo apt -y full-upgrade -y sudo reboot After the reboot, install the drivers with sudo apt install -y nvidia-driver nvidia-cuda-toolkit sudo reboot Old Instructions Leaving these here in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/how-to-install-nvidia-proprietary-drivers-on-kali-linux-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[270,268,267,7,269],"class_list":["post-1230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-drivers","tag-kali","tag-kali-linux","tag-linux-2","tag-nvidia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5250,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions\/5250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}