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I have been having issues with Kali in virtualbox. It runs fine but I am having issues with some of the tools available.
After these issues I have decided to install Kali, but have read that MSI laptops are not very positive with Linux distros. People have a lot of issues installing.
My laptop is a MSI GS40 phantom...I am just wondering if anyone else has Kali installed on the same laptop or a similar MSI laptp?
No, but my rule with Kali on new hardware is this: try it out on the target machine using a live DVD. Play around with several of the tools, and see how it works. In my experience, if it works in live mode, it will install & work ok.
Hello,
I have a MSI GL62 that actually never tried Kali but different variations of Ubuntu. (Gnome, XFCE, Mate) My laptop was working fine with a few glitches on Ubuntu, hope this post will help you :
* In windows, I was able to use loudness to increase sound output but it wasn't possible in Ubuntu
* My laptop had 6th gen Intel I7 with onboard graphics chip and Nvidia one. With default drivers it wasn't possible to use onboard chip, additional drivers was working but if I changed to onboard card, suspend / resume wasn't working. This is still a general issue for every Linux distro from what I know.
* Keyboard FN shortcuts was working.
I would let you know if I try Kali on GL62.
Hi, I did attempt to install Ubuntu on my MSI GS40 but had trouble. I can not even boot into Ubuntu live from the USB...it just crashes every single time that it is in the loading stage.Quote:
Originally Posted by ErkanA
The grub menu shows up fine, with all of the options for Ubuntu, but when I attempt to use live or even install from the menu it just crashes out while loading! I purchased this laptop to install Ubuntu and use Kali specifically...I would have had to keep windows for the programs that I use for video editing, but I did purchase it because of it's good specs...I am not a gamer, but I did want something powerful to pen test with.
Hii, I have been saarching for boot problems for various Linux distros and I found out the problem is nouveau drivers these days many Linux distros provide Nouveau Drivers which are not very perfect for Optimus Drives basically MSi comes with a powerful graphics like Nvidia GTX960 and so on Nouveau driver is not working properly after searching a lot in the internet I found this which have solved my problem https://forums.kali.org/showthread.p...iving-me-crazy!
My Graphic driver is Nvidia GTX 960M. Hope the above link will solve your problem.bye...