Linux Error cuInit(): unknown error

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Hello friends,

I've had the same issue as you two for the past week actually. The-Distribution-Which-Does-Not-Handle-OpenCL-Well (Kali), is just not that great handling updates with drivers I guess. I've tried everything I could for 3 days, including 2 fresh install, thinking I was the problem. But no, the distro is...

Install Parrot Security OS !

Driver for AWUS1900 works OOB, CUDA works OOB, Intel Neo (OpenCL) is provided in the package manager.

One thing you need to know though, update using, "sudo parrot-upgrade" not "apt upgrade" this will ensure system stability.

So here are the steps :
- Install OS.

- "apt update" followed by "parrot-upgrade"
- reboot

- "sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf"
Add this in the file :
"blacklist nouveau
blacklist lbm-nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0
alias nouveau off
alias lbm-nouveau off"

- Install "nvidia-driver"
- reboot

- Install CUDA : "sudo apt install -y ocl-icd-libopencl1 nvidia-cuda-toolkit"
- reboot

- Install clinfo : "sudo apt install clinfo"
- use clinfo : "clinfo"
- Enjoy
- Try "hashcat -I"... Enjoy !

For more info :
https://docs.parrotlinux.org/info/gpu-drivers/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ParrotOS/commen..._properly/

I do not recommend you follow every step in the official docs. Follow just this, and tell me if it fixed your problems.

Also, know that Parrot Security has more tools than The-Distribution-Which-Does-Not-Handle-OpenCL-Well (Kali), uses Mate instead of XFCE (good old Gnome 2) and is very stable and lightweight.