HOWTO : nVidia and HashCat on Kali Linux 2018.4

CPU : Intel i7-8750H (6-core with HyperThreading and Graphic Display)
Extra Graphic Display : nVidia GTX 1060 (laptop)

There are two display graphic cards on the same system, namely Optimus on laptop. The installation of nVidia display driver on Kali Linux 2018.4 is difference to Ubuntu 18.04.1 on the same system. You can refer to the link here for Ubuntu 18.04.1 even they are using the same version of nVidia display driver - Version 390.87 at the time of this writing.

Step 1 :

apt updaate
apt install nvidia-kernel-dkms primus bumblebee bbswitch-dkms nvidia-smi

Step 2 :

Reboot the system.

To confirm the installation.

nvidia-smi

Step 3 :

Install HashCat which does not require CUDA.

apt install hashcat-nvidia

Step 4 (optional) :

To install CUDA.

apt install nvidia-cuda-toolkit

To run program that requires CUDA.

bumblebeed --daemon
optirun [program]

That's all! See you.