- First, update Kali Linux based server as follows:
sudo apt update
sudo apt -y full-upgrade
- Reboot server as follows:
reboot
- Find out which video card is installed in the Kali Linux server and verify using the nouveau open-source driver.
lspci | grep -i vga
- You will get the following output:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB] (rev a1)
- To get information about the drivers installed, use the lspci command, replacing 00:02.0 with your number from the previous output.
lspci -s 00:02.0 -v
...
Kernel driver in use: nouveau
Kernel modules: nouveau
- Now install nVIDIA driver and CUDA toolkit with the following command:
sudo apt install nvidia-driver nvidia-cuda-toolkit
- You can now verify that your system is using Nvidia drivers instead of nouveau.
lspci -s 00:02.0 -v
...
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Kernel modules: nvidia
- At this stage, nVIDIA driver is installed on your Kali Linux server.
- Optionally, you can use hashcat to benchmark Kali Linux GPU dedicated server.
sudo apt install hashcat
hashcat -b | uniq
