[TUTORIAL] Installing official NVIDIA driver in Optimus laptop

[abhijeet]

Hi there i have NVIDIA GTX 860M and i was using nvidia smoothly until and unless i updated it last week. Usually i always update it but never got any problem but this time it got stuck after rebooting.
So after that i finally decided to uninstall the driver and then to start installing it with scratch. Everything was going smooth and then i got stuck at 5th step as i can see other people are also having the same problem.
when i ran this command it throws this error:

nvidia-xconfig --query-gpu-info | grep 'BusID : ' | cut -d ' ' -f6
ERROR: Unable to query GPU information

i was installing nvidia via apt-get. Any solution for this please?

[bjo1112]

Hi there i have NVIDIA GTX 860M and i was using nvidia smoothly until and unless i updated it last week. Usually i always update it but never got any problem but this time it got stuck after rebooting.
So after that i finally decided to uninstall the driver and then to start installing it with scratch. Everything was going smooth and then i got stuck at 5th step as i can see other people are also having the same problem.
when i ran this command it throws this error:

i was installing nvidia via apt-get. Any solution for this please?

For those having same problem try to do what vel suggested.

Tried it and it worked for me

[abhijeet]

For those having same problem try to do what vel suggested.

Tried it and it worked for me

Thanks for the reply but i forgot to mention that this command is not working for me throwing some error:

apt-get install -y linux-headers-$(uname -r)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package linux-headers-4.15.0-kali2-amd64
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'linux-headers-4.15.0-kali2-amd64'
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-headers-4.15.0-kali2-amd64'

So i already tried that solution but no luck

[bjo1112]

Thanks for the reply but i forgot to mention that this command is not working for me throwing some error:


So i already tried that solution but no luck

put this in your sources.list (etc/apt/sources.list)

deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free

deb http://old.kali.org/kali moto main non-free contrib

deb http://old.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib

deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian/ jessie main


then update (apt-get update) and try again