long time!
Recently, I updated my Kali rolling system and had my own working NVidia Optimus setup, and I was able to use my GeForce card on my HashCat.
Now, I lost my GUI.
I went through several articles online to reinstall, including:
http://www.adonespitogo.com/articles/installing-nvidia-on-kali-2.0/
https://docs.kali.org/general-use/install-nvidia-drivers-on-kali-linux
Every time I purge my NVidia drivers, I follow these steps, and ensure my Xorg.conf file maps to the correct Bus ID for my card, only to get “PPS Stare Mismatch” when I try the startx command.
I’ve also noticed when I’ve tried installing sometimes I’ll see “forcing reinstallation since link group glx is broken.”
I notice nothing in the Xorg.0.log that could tell me anything about what might be happening. No error messages.
Can anyone advise me on anything else to try?
Please see my current Xorg.conf file below:
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 384.98 (buildd@debian) Thu Nov 30 05:15:46 UTC 2017
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BusID "PCI:4:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "intel"
Driver "modesetting"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection