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0002500Kali LinuxKali Package Improvementpublic2015-08-12 18:49
Reporteryennefer1173 Assigned Tomuts  
PrioritynormalSeveritymajorReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionfixed 
Summary0002500: No nvidia v340 drivers package in Kali 2.0 repository.
Description

There are only 352 and legacy(304) nvidia drivers in the repository and both of them do not work on my 9500 gt video card. Only the v340 drivers from the nvidia website work. It would be great if a separate package with the 340 drivers is made because the manual installation is a real pain.

Additional Information

Also the nvidia installer from the nvidia website has a bug which prevents the driver to build. But this link shows a way to fix it https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-304-updates/+bug/1431278/comments/6 . You need to run ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.76.run --extract-only and edit the nv-pat.c file as shown in the link above. Then the driver installs without a problem.

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muts

muts

2015-08-12 17:51

reporter   ~0003688

We do not package the NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.76.run file, but use an upstream debian package. Please read the docs on how to get this installed.

yennefer1173

yennefer1173

2015-08-12 18:39

reporter   ~0003690

Ok but debian has the package I was talking about and Kali does not. Proof: https://packages.debian.org/jessie/nvidia-kernel-dkms .

muts

muts

2015-08-12 18:42

reporter   ~0003691

The nvidia-driver exists in kali.

root@fringe:~# apt-cache show nvidia-driver
Package: nvidia-driver
Source: nvidia-graphics-drivers
Version: 352.21-1~kali2
Architecture: amd64
Maintainer: Debian NVIDIA Maintainers [email protected]
Installed-Size: 1071
Pre-Depends: nvidia-installer-cleanup
Depends: libgl1-nvidia-glx (= 352.21-1~kali2), libegl1-nvidia (= 352.21-1~kali2), nvidia-driver-bin (= 352.21-1~kali2), xserver-xorg-video-nvidia (= 352.21-1~kali2), nvidia-vdpau-driver (= 352.21-1~kali2), nvidia-alternative (= 352.21-1~kali2), nvidia-kernel-dkms (= 352.21-1~kali2) | nvidia-kernel-352.21, nvidia-support
Recommends: nvidia-settings (>= 352), libgl1-nvidia-glx-i386, libgles1-nvidia (= 352.21-1~kali2), libgles2-nvidia (= 352.21-1~kali2)
Suggests: nvidia-kernel-dkms (>= 352.21) | nvidia-kernel-source (>= 352.21)
Breaks: nvidia-glx
Replaces: nvidia-glx
Provides: nvidia-glx-any
Homepage: http://www.nvidia.com
Priority: optional
Section: non-free/x11
Filename: pool/non-free/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/nvidia-driver_352.21-1~kali2_amd64.deb
Size: 427240
SHA256: 98994bdcdf5319cc334f3990b4ef78d1cc810aca2f244c8f87bd6c877e763834
SHA1: 8fb3346d67579125b85075f72ca34728bb67d055
MD5sum: c6a58c69cf57d70827e4de139ead5528
Description: NVIDIA metapackage
This metapackage depends on the NVIDIA binary driver and libraries
that provide optimized hardware acceleration of
OpenGL applications via a direct-rendering X Server.
AGP, PCIe, SLI, TV-out and flat panel displays are also supported.
.
Please see the nvidia-kernel-dkms or
nvidia-kernel-source packages
for building the kernel module required by this package.
This will provide nvidia-kernel-352.21.
.
This version only supports GeForce, Quadro, NVS, Tesla, ... GPUs based on the
Fermi, Kepler, Maxwell, or newer architectures. Look at the legacy packages
for older cards.
.
See /usr/share/doc/nvidia-driver/README.txt.gz
for a complete list of supported GPUs and PCI IDs.
Description-md5: ccb7b5693633331cd2b4adcf40e354d9

root@fringe:~#

yennefer1173

yennefer1173

2015-08-12 18:45

reporter   ~0003692

This is the nvidia 352.21 driver. I am talking about the 340.65 driver which Debian 8 has and Kali 2.0 does not.

muts

muts

2015-08-12 18:49

reporter   ~0003693

We don't keep older driver versions in our repositories.

Issue History

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2015-08-12 17:49 yennefer1173 New Issue
2015-08-12 17:51 muts Note Added: 0003688
2015-08-12 17:51 muts Status new => closed
2015-08-12 17:51 muts Assigned To => muts
2015-08-12 17:51 muts Resolution open => no change required
2015-08-12 18:39 yennefer1173 Note Added: 0003690
2015-08-12 18:39 yennefer1173 Status closed => feedback
2015-08-12 18:39 yennefer1173 Resolution no change required => reopened
2015-08-12 18:42 muts Note Added: 0003691
2015-08-12 18:42 muts Status feedback => closed
2015-08-12 18:42 muts Resolution reopened => no change required
2015-08-12 18:45 yennefer1173 Note Added: 0003692
2015-08-12 18:45 yennefer1173 Status closed => feedback
2015-08-12 18:45 yennefer1173 Resolution no change required => reopened
2015-08-12 18:49 muts Note Added: 0003693
2015-08-12 18:49 muts Status feedback => closed
2015-08-12 18:49 muts Resolution reopened => fixed