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"This is all very good, the more mistakes I make the more I learn" he repeated to himself over and over again like wild eyed crazy man pacing up and down the lost halls of a forgotten mental asylum. For a while there I had something working. It was really cool, I was happy and free, my hair flowing behind me blown up by the magical breeze emanating from the cooling fan of my computer tower. I'd managed to dual boot Kali Linux along side Windows. The problem I had was that I was not able to get the two screens working as a single display. That is to say I was seeing double. I read the instructions on this page http://docs.kali.org/general-use/install-nvidia-drivers-on-kali-linux in an attempt to solve that problem. I knew it was a graphics card driver problem because when I went to the 'displays' section of the system settings the display showed as unknown and only showed one rather than two. After following the instructions to reboot I now get [...] Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...udevd[512]: specified group 'pcscd' unknown during the boot into Kali-Linux. And that's where the computer stays. Any ideas? Scott.
Do you have two card or using two outputs [from one card]? Most of the distros do two outputs OK but two cards *not ok* I've got a great gaming card with nothing hanging off it because things dont talk so well. I have 2 x desktops of one card working fine though. Cheers P* * On 22/10/14 14:16, Scott Junner wrote:
"This is all very good, the more mistakes I make the more I learn" he repeated to himself over and over again like wild eyed crazy man pacing up and down the lost halls of a forgotten mental asylum.
For a while there I had something working. It was really cool, I was happy and free, my hair flowing behind me blown up by the magical breeze emanating from the cooling fan of my computer tower.
I'd managed to dual boot Kali Linux along side Windows. The problem I had was that I was not able to get the two screens working as a single display. That is to say I was seeing double.
I read the instructions on this page http://docs.kali.org/general-use/install-nvidia-drivers-on-kali-linux
in an attempt to solve that problem. I knew it was a graphics card driver problem because when I went to the 'displays' section of the system settings the display showed as unknown and only showed one rather than two.
After following the instructions to reboot I now get
[...] Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...udevd[512]: specified group 'pcscd' unknown
during the boot into Kali-Linux. And that's where the computer stays.
Any ideas?
Scott.
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On 22/10/14 14:16, Scott Junner wrote:
I'd managed to dual boot Kali Linux along side Windows. The problem I had was that I was not able to get the two screens working as a single display. That is to say I was seeing double.
Kali is a penetration testing appliance (distro). Why not just install it as a VM guest on VirtualBox (or one of the many hypervisors on windows that are free) and set it running while you play minesweeper (or whatever windows can do these days that is worthwhile). No dual boot needed. Cheers P
It's two displays coming out of the one graphics card. VGA and DVI. Yeah, I could install as a VM guest. But then two things. 1. I don't really want to use Windows. I want to use Linux, I'm keeping Windows around so I can occasionally play DayZ with my son. 2. Because I'm interested in Penetration Testing, and one of the courses I want to do in the field (written by the very same people who maintain Kali) involves using virtual machines, I'd then be trying to run a VM inside a VM and I'm told this is not possible. I could also run a live DVD, but like I say. I want to use it as my main OS. Not an after thought. On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Piers Rowan < piers.rowan@recruitonline.com.au> wrote:
On 22/10/14 14:16, Scott Junner wrote:
I'd managed to dual boot Kali Linux along side Windows. The problem I had was that I was not able to get the two screens working as a single display. That is to say I was seeing double.
Kali is a penetration testing appliance (distro).
Why not just install it as a VM guest on VirtualBox (or one of the many hypervisors on windows that are free) and set it running while you play minesweeper (or whatever windows can do these days that is worthwhile).
No dual boot needed.
Cheers
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On 22/10/14 22:51, Scott Junner wrote:
It's two displays coming out of the one graphics card. VGA and DVI.
Ok - same here.
Yeah, I could install as a VM guest. But then two things. 1. I don't really want to use Windows. I want to use Linux, I'm keeping Windows around so I can occasionally play DayZ with my son.
Understood. I finally ditched Windows altogether when Steam came out on Linux (yeah, for my son, *sure* :-)
2. Because I'm interested in Penetration Testing, and one of the courses I want to do in the field (written by the very same people who maintain Kali) involves using virtual machines, I'd then be trying to run a VM inside a VM and I'm told this is not possible.
You could install a easier OS like Ubuntu / Fedora and then run a Kali VM - then you get even more Linux stuff to play with. Have you run nvidia-xconfig from the command line? If it helps here is my display file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf): # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig # nvidia-xconfig: version 304.108 (buildmeister@swio-display-x64-rhel04-06) Wed Jul 31 20:47:43 PDT 2013 # nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings # nvidia-settings: version 304.88 (buildd@roseapple) Thu Jul 11 10:36:55 UTC 2013 #Section "Module" # Load "glx" #EndSection Section "ServerLayout" # Removed Option "Xinerama" "0" Identifier "Layout0" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" # Option "Xinerama" "1" EndSection Section "Files" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" EndSection Section "Monitor" # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "Samsung SMS22A200B" HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0 VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Monitor" # HorizSync source: unknown, VertRefresh source: unknown Identifier "Monitor1" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "LG Electronics E2251" HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0 VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" BoardName "GeForce GTX 260" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Device1" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" BoardName "GeForce GT 520" BusID "PCI:6:0:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Device0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 Option "Stereo" "0" Option "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-1" Option "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP" Option "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen1" Device "Device1" Monitor "Monitor1" DefaultDepth 24 Option "Stereo" "0" Option "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0" Option "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Section "Extensions" # Option "Composite" "Disable" EndSection
I could also run a live DVD, but like I say. I want to use it as my main OS. Not an after thought.
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Piers Rowan <piers.rowan@recruitonline.com.au <mailto:piers.rowan@recruitonline.com.au>> wrote:
On 22/10/14 14:16, Scott Junner wrote: > > I'd managed to dual boot Kali Linux along side Windows. The problem I > had was that I was not able to get the two screens working as a single > display. That is to say I was seeing double. > >
Kali is a penetration testing appliance (distro).
Why not just install it as a VM guest on VirtualBox (or one of the many hypervisors on windows that are free) and set it running while you play minesweeper (or whatever windows can do these days that is worthwhile).
No dual boot needed.
Cheers
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