[TUTORIAL] Installing official NVIDIA driver in Optimus laptop

[TiGER511]

Hello TIGER511 ,
I had kept automatic update off after installing nvidia but two days back I put it on and updates were downloaded automatically after which i was installing them and it got stuck on tor browser, after than i aborted the process which results in booting problem. Than i ran "dpkg --configure -a" from recovery mode to bring it back in previous state . So my question is whether should i keep my automatic updates on because at the starting i was getting update and my os was also running smooth?
AND have you use bumblebee?
Sorry for my English if i am wrong somewhere.
Thank You

There is no such problem for me with automated updates.i always keep my machine up to date and didn't had anything broken so far.If something breaks,you can always repeat the process again and it should be fixed.

And no,i didn't use bumblebee. I want to use my Nvidia GPU all the time since i paid for it.

On step 7, I'm using the Kali build with KDE, I don't see KDE mentioned in the link. Any idea how I should go about step 7?

Thanks! I have an Acer with an Intel HD 520 and an nVidiaGeForce 940mx, this is gonna be a life saver!

For KDE,follow the link on step 7 and use LightDM configs.

Optional: you can now install your cuda toolkits:

apt-get install ocl-icd-libopencl1 nvidia-cuda-toolkit

after this step , i managed to install it and i can boot until desktop but all my menu is blank / missing , i only can right-clicks and open terminal
any solution?

This happens if you mess up on step 7.Can you provide screenshot of your problem?

I'm trying to install Nvidia driver on my custom Desktop PC, i followed the tutorial, disabled nouveau and installed nvidia drivers with

apt-get install nvidia-driver nvidia-xconfig

at the step 5 when I type

nvidia-xconfig --query-gpu-info | grep 'BusID : ' | cut -d ' ' -f6

i have

ERROR: Unable to query GPU Information

Can someone help me please? There is one week I'm trying to fix this and I dont want to give up.
I've a MSI Z97 gaming 5 as mobo with Intel HD Graphics 4600 and GTX970 as GPU
My system:

root@KaliThresh:~# uname -a
Linux KaliThresh 4.9.0-kali3-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.18-1kali1 (2017-04-04) x86_64 GNU/Linux

root@KaliThresh:~# cat /etc/*release*
DISTRIB_ID=Kali
DISTRIB_RELEASE=kali-rolling
DISTRIB_CODENAME=kali-rolling
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Kali GNU/Linux Rolling"
PRETTY_NAME="Kali GNU/Linux Rolling"
NAME="Kali GNU/Linux"
ID=kali
VERSION="2017.2"
VERSION_ID="2017.2"
ID_LIKE=debian
ANSI_COLOR="1;31"
HOME_URL="http://www.kali.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://forums.kali.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.kali.org/"

This guide is for Muxless Laptop GPU only.For desktop you can just install nvidia driver regularly and connect your monitor to Nvidia HDMI port.Or maybe you can disable intel GPU from bios?

thanks for the toturial!! i would update that the latest .run file from nvidia webside does not work with this guide at the moment.

question: if i want to install nvidia drivers and cuda support on my desktop with nvidia card (gtx 970) , can i skip steps 5-6-7 or i have to follow?

I think so.

Hi mate i had problem in installing the drivers
i followed every tutorials in internet and at last tried you tutorial but no result of fking nvidia drivers
My laptop specs are:
1.Intel® Core™ i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz × 8
2intel graphics=Intel® Kabylake GT2
3.Nvidia=geforce gtx 1050M
4.8 gigs of ram
5.128 gb nvme ssd

My system

root@kali-Killer:~# uname -a
Linux kali-Killer 4.9.0-kali3-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.18-1kali1 (2017-04-04) x86_64 GNU/Linux

root@kali-Killer:~# cat /etc/*release*
DISTRIB_ID=Kali
DISTRIB_RELEASE=kali-rolling
DISTRIB_CODENAME=kali-rolling
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Kali GNU/Linux Rolling"
PRETTY_NAME="Kali GNU/Linux Rolling"
NAME="Kali GNU/Linux"
ID=kali
VERSION="2017.1"
VERSION_ID="2017.1"
ID_LIKE=debian
ANSI_COLOR="1;31"
HOME_URL="http://www.kali.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://forums.kali.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.kali.org/"

Started steps of nvidia drivers

root@kali-Killer:~# lspci | grep -E "VGA|3D"
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 591b (rev 04)
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] (rev a1)

I sucessfully disabled nouveau

echo -e "blacklist nouveau\noptions nouveau modeset=0\nalias nouveau off" > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf
update-initramfs -u && reboot

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From this step I install nvidia drivers

apt-get install  nvidia-driver nvidia-xconfig

after installing the drivers i restarted my laptop and shows me sad emoji symbol of crash
and i went into recovery mode uninstall nvidia drivers to back to old intel graphics

first i thought that nvidia didn't made CUDA toolkit for gtx 1050M
so i went into some forums and searched cuda toolkit for my gpu
some members said me that cuda toolkit support every gpu
but why my gpu sucks

so i hope you can fix this problem and sorry for my bad English

Follow all the steps properly.You can not reboot right after installing driver.you have to follow the steps accordingly then reboot.