Hashcat-GPU-fix-for-kali

My solution for Hashcat not detecting NVIDIA GPU for hybrid graphics setup.

My System

AMD Radeon vega + nvidia 1650.

• Hashcat is not detecting integrated GPU and seeing these errors even after doing sudo apt-get dist-upgrade or apt-get full-upgrade

• Don't worry I got you covered. After 3 long years, I have finally solved this issue. Just follow the following steps.

1. Go to https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us & select your proper GPU driver to install.
2. Run sudo su -.
3. Do init 3 (which will disable the Linux desktop and switch to a text interface.).
4. If you have already installed Nvidia drivers using a package manager like apt, nala etc. you have to remove them first. I did sudo apt remove nvidia* which removed all of the previously installed Nvidia drivers. If you don't do this you'll get a warning when you try to run the next step & the installation will be aborted.
5. Install the driver file by doing sudo ./Nvidia-<your version>.run. Follow the installation flow & choose appropriate options.
6. If the installation is successful Reboot

• Now run hashcat -I & if everything goes well you will be able to see something like this.

• Now it's not over yet. After following this my laptop display went dark and only the external monitor display was visible this was expected because of the new updated drivers the system will use the dedicated GPU i.e. Nvidia one for as the primary graphics driver. Now to fix this thanks to hackterr on Discord you can either set your laptop display card to Nvidia or integrated AMD GPU for laptop display & keep the Nvidia one for the external display. I choose the latter one.
• Add the following to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. (You need sudo to edit this)

Section "Device"
 Identifier "Device1"
 Driver "modesetting"
 VendorName "Advanced Micro Devices"
 BusID "PCI:5:00.0" # run lspci | grep -i vga to see your bus ID for integrated GPU. In my case, it was 5:00.0
EndSection

• If anyone is interested I'm attaching my xorg.conf file in this repo.

• If your external display goes dark after every Kali update then run this script. It has been successful for the past 3 years & I ran it just now while writing this README :).