Saturday, February 25, 2012

Install nvidia drivers on BT5R2

In order to install the nvidia graphics drivers on BT5R2 you need to enter the following into a terminal prompt while X is not running.

This process is slightly longer than in BT5 because of nouveau drivers being loaded.


First you need to disable the nouveau drivers, which can be done thus:


nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf


Now add the following 6 lines at the end


blacklist vga16fb
blacklist nouveau
blacklist nouveaufb
blacklist rivafb
blacklist nvidiafb
blacklist rivatv



Save


update-initramfs -u


Finally reboot and nouveau drivers will now be disabled.


Then you need to prepare the kernel sources if you have not done so already by:

Please remember to copy and paste these commands into your terminal prompt as formatting can make long lines wrap over into two or more lines !

apt-get update
apt-get install linux-source
prepare-kernel-sources
cd /usr/src/linux
cp -rf include/generated/* include/linux/
cd /


Then for 32bit BT5: following the prompts

wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/295.20/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-295.20.run
chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86-295.20.run
./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-295.20.run


Or for 64bit BT5: following the prompts

wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/295.20/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.20.run
chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.20.run
./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.20.run


And that's it, you should now be able to restart, and startx enjoying the full glory of BackTrack at the full resolution offered by your graphics card and monitor.