[Kali 2016.2] Screen freezes after login

Hi, I recently installed Kali Linux next to my Windows 7 installation. When I successfully finished and restarted the computer, I selected Windows in Grub to check if it was still working. It didn't and I had to load the Windows 7 rescue cd, which seemed to fix the problems. Another restart and again selecting Windows and everything was fine. Then I tried to start Kali from Grub. The login screen appeared and I entered root and my password. When I clicked on login, my screen freezed and I couldn't do anything. I've seen many posts about that problem, but I didn't have any success. I think it's something about my graphics card (GTX 960), and drivers are missing.
Thank you for your help and ask if you need any more details.

Before you even log in. Enter tty (teletype) by pressing CTRL + ALT + F2, 3, 4, etc (whatever gets you to the tty terminal which is just a basic command line). Then login as root in tty. Update your system using "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-upgrade".

Once that is done try following the Kali guide to installing NVIDIA drivers, by default Kali uses 3rd party drivers for NVIDIA cards.

http://docs.kali.org/general-use/ins...-on-kali-linux

Thank you for replying! I already updated everything. Your link seemed to be helpful... I typed apt-get install -y linux-headers-$(uname -r) followed by apt-get install nvidia-kernel-dkms, but now.. have a look: http://puu.sh/scLHx/72fc62d41a.png CTRL+D does nothing, it outputs these messages every ~25 seconds, for now more than 20 minutes.

You and I are having similar issues. Check out my forum post. Do you happen to have the NVIDIA 960M, do you also have a built in Intel graphics card? I am still unable to get Kali to work with my setup, I am almost certain it is because my laptop has a built in APU as well as dedicated GPU. They call it the NVIDIA optimus arrangement. I have gotten stuck multiple times with the watchdog timeout errors.

https://forums.kali.org/showthread.p...ibility-Issues

EDIT 1:
I apologize, I realize you pointed out that you owned a GTX 960.

EDIT 2:
Try reinstalling Kali. Then try turning off ACPI via GRUB, using this guide.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/16003...i-when-booting

This allowed me to boot into Kali's GNOME GUI. I have a hunch it may point you in the right direction.

I got it working now. The solution was to execute: sed 's/quiet/quiet nouveau.modeset=0/g' -i /etc/default/grub, update grub and reboot. Then I removed nvidia drivers with apt-get purge nvidia-* and deleted the X11 config /etc/X11/xorg.conf. ACPI is enabled by default by my bios and can't be unselected. I did not turn acpi off in grub.

Hey. I have been trying to install kali linux with windows 10 for a while. I have an ASUS laptop with an GTX960M and from what I've seen in some forums this is the cause of my problems.

I noticed that most of the people that have this problem are using kali linux on a VM and this is not my case!

I have the same issue as Hackbaellchen, my kali freezes after the login.

I tried to follow the steps above but when I try to install the kernel headers I just can't. This is what appears:

"Couldnt find any package by glob 'linux-headers-4.6.0-kali1-amd64' "

I have tried a lots of paths to solve this problem but the result is always the same.