is kali sid, jessie, wheezy or squeeze?

[Quest]

kernel 3.14 does not correspond to anything debian related.

[staticn0de]

kernel 3.14 does not correspond to anything debian related.

Hi there,

You have not given much information so I can not be overly specific.

If you are looking for the 3.14 kernel in a Debian flavor I would look at wheezy-backports. I had a search on plain wheezy and it does not have the newer kernels.

That being said, I believe you should use the kernel from the Kali repo as it is my understanding that it has had modifications.

You can see the wheezy-backports here:

https://packages.debian.org/wheezy-b...po.1-all-amd64

I've read before that Kali is based on (or has the most in common with) Wheezy, but I can't remember where I saw it.

[Quest]

Hi staticn0de, and thanks for the pointer.

I'm looking for packages of bumblebee that would fit Kali, on their site, and the choices does not include KaliLinux but many different builds of Debian. The install procedures are also tied to what kind of Debian.

Sorry for the cryptic post, but this is what happens after 4hours of coming the web, looking for a solution for something that should take 5 seconds to do. I h a t e linux.

[staticn0de]

I can tell you now that you want wheezy backports for bumblebee to work on Kali.

I'll write something up tonight on how to install it (if I get time)

In short, you want to:

Update everything to latest
Install virtualgl using the deb on their website.
Add the virtualgl path to your. Bashrc
Install linux-headers-$(uname - r)
Add the backports repo for wheezy shown on the bumblebee wiki
Install bumblebee-nvidia and primus
Install nvidia-glx
Update your /etc/bumblee/bumblebee.conf and the nvidia xorg file in the same directory with the correct driver module and graphics card pci address
Restart bumblebee service

You should now be able to use optirun glxspheres64 without errors

Install libcuda1

Download cuda 5.5*.run from the nvidia website (linux 12.04 flavour)

Install cuda and add the libraries it prints at the end to the /etc/ld. Config. D file and then run ldconfig from terminal

Open /usr/src /kernel /updates and find the nvidia folder

Run make

Copy the modules.symvers to the uvm folder in the same directory
open uvm folder and run make.
Copy the nvidia-uvm.ko to your /lib/modules directory (the one with contains nvidia-current)
Modprobe nvidia-uvm

Remove the wheezy backports repo.

Restart

Build the nvidia samples from the cuda install.

Run the device-query script in the 1_utilites folder with optirun.

You should now have nvidia and cuda running.

I'm on the train so I'm going from memory, you can either trust that or hold out about 15 hours.

[Quest]

well you would be a hero if you can do that. I started a topic asking for help with that specific problem https://forums.kali.org/showthread.p...5211#post35211

I will wait for you, because the more I read on the matter, the more I get confused. What a mess.

Thanks!

[Nick_the_Greek]

is kali sid, jessie, wheezy or squeeze?

For future reference, usually a:

lsb_release -c
or 
cat /etc/os-release

will do.

And if you see something like:

No LSB modules are available.

you may want to:

apt-get install lsb-core

Unfortunately x86 Kali, doesn't report the codename vs x64 Kali.

[g0tmi1k]

Kali Linux 1.0 is a Debian derivative based on Debian Wheezy.

Source: http://docs.kali.org/kali-policy/kal...ip-with-debian