We are now going to switch to the close-source drivers, and the CUDA toolkit (allowing for tool to take advantage of the GPU).ĭuring installation of the drivers the system created new kernel modules, so its best for to-do a reboot: :~$ sudo apt install -y nvidia-driver nvidia-cuda-toolkit Notice how Kernel driver in use & Kernel modules from lspci are using nouveau, signalling the open-source driver for NVIDIA cards. They nvidia-detect package may fail in places due to Kali being a rolling distribution as it requires a stable release.

Failed to identify your Debian suite.Ġ1:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM108M (rev a2)įlags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 132, IOMMU group 10 To detect the NVIDIA card, we need to install nvidia-detect: :~$ sudo apt install -y nvidia-detectĠ1:00.0 3D controller : NVIDIA Corporation GM108M (rev a2)Ĭhecking card: NVIDIA Corporation GM108M (rev a2) You can see what the primary card is by doing: :~$ lspci | grep -i vgaĠ0:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 620 (rev 02) You may also not even see NVIDIA listed at all. Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) Įxpansion ROM at 000c0000 įor optimus (laptops and notebooks), you will not see NVIDIA for the primary card.

Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) Memory at f6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd GP106 įlags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 100 Be sure to include the correct address lspci -s XX.XX.X -v: :~$ lspci | grep -i vgaĠ7:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP106 (rev a1)Ġ7:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP106 (rev a1) (prog-if 00 ) Take note, the lspci command contains a unique PCI bus address. Let’s determine the exact GPU installed, and check the kernel modules it’s using. GPUs with a CUDA compute capability > 5.0 are recommended, but GPUs with less will still work.Īfterwards, make sure you have contrib & non-free* components are enabled in your network Repositories and that your system is fully up-to-date: :~$ grep 'contrib non-free' /etc/apt/sources.listĭeb kali-rolling main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

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