Search icon CANCEL
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Your Cart (0 item)
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Kali Linux Cookbook

You're reading from   Kali Linux Cookbook When you know what hackers know, you're better able to protect your online information. With this book you'll learn just what Kali Linux is capable of and get the chance to use a host of recipes.

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783289592
Length 260 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Arrow right icon
Toc

Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Up and Running with Kali Linux 2. Customizing Kali Linux FREE CHAPTER 3. Advanced Testing Lab 4. Information Gathering 5. Vulnerability Assessment 6. Exploiting Vulnerabilities 7. Escalating Privileges 8. Password Attacks 9. Wireless Attacks Index

Installing and configuring ATI video card drivers

In this recipe, we'll go into the details for installing and configuring the ATI video card drivers followed by the AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) SDK, OpenCL, and CAL++. Taking advantage of the ATI Stream technology, we can run computationally-intensive tasks—typically running on the CPU—that perform more quickly and efficiently. For more detailed information regarding the ATI Stream technology, visit www.amd.com/stream.

Getting ready

An Internet connection is required to complete this recipe. The preparation of kernel headers is also needed before starting this task, which is explained in the Preparing kernel headers recipe at the beginning of this chapter.

How to do it...

Let's begin installing and configuring the ATI drivers:

  1. Download the ATI display driver required for your system:
    cd /tmp/
    wget http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/amd-driver-installer-12-1-x86.x86_64.run
    

    We can also download the display driver...

You have been reading a chapter from
Kali Linux Cookbook
Published in: Oct 2013
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781783289592
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime
Banner background image