Comments on: How to install the latest Nvidia drivers on Linux Mint 16 Petra

By: Rob Morris

Rob Morris — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 12:23:01 +0000

Nouveau drivers 270 fps and glmark2 score of 247
nVidia drivers 60 fps and glmark2 score of 318

hmmm ?

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 08:59:23 +0000

The list of drivers didn’t show up in the driver manager. Yet after I ran the $ aptitude versions ^nvidia command I got a whole list of drivers.

The latest driver for my card is apparently version 375.39 but the only driver showing up in the manager is version 367.57 and the nouveau(open-source) driver.

Did everyone get this message as part of $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa -y

* WARNING: Do not use this PPA with enabled HWE stack.

Be sure to revert this PPA before doing a release upgrade or the upgrade will not succeed. To revert to official packages, install the ppa-purge package and run “sudo ppa-purge xorg-edgers”.

Help please?

By: PJ

PJ — Mon, 16 May 2016 03:07:59 +0000

Just installed on Mint 17. even though it was already installed by Mint repository.
Ended up just running test with NVidia drivers
8800GTS running gears at over 8500fps

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 16:35:00 +0000

i just ran those tests with nouveau, 1780fps gears : 340fps glmark2.. and i only have a gt620! custom P5N-D, E8500 4GB DDR3 1333, no OC.

By: Scud

Scud — Sun, 16 Nov 2014 15:51:00 +0000

Do I need to “unplug” those PPA after driver install?

By: Victor J

Victor J — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 19:02:00 +0000

I wish this worked. Unfortunately it doesn’t work with the Ancient 7950GT card doesn’t work with this process. I am using the 304 drivers which are recommended for this card as well.

PS. I’m also trying this on Mint 17, which I figured would be the same steps.

By: Roberto

Roberto — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 08:38:00 +0000

Thanks a lot. Very helpful article.

By: itzman

itzman — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 12:48:00 +0000

In reply to Wilman Darnasutisna. sometimes you need to disable onboard graphics in the bios

By: Wilman Darnasutisna

Wilman Darnasutisna — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 12:36:00 +0000

$ lspci -vnn | grep VGA -A 12
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [8086:0166] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:5003]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 44
Memory at a3000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
Memory at 80000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
I/O ports at 4000 [size=64]
Expansion ROM at [disabled]
Capabilities:
Kernel driver in use: i915

00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller [8086:1e31] (rev 04) (prog-if 30 [XHCI])
Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:5002]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 41

WHY? my Graphic card cannot detect? mine is nvidia geforce 705M

By: Benjamin Cawrse

Benjamin Cawrse — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 05:23:00 +0000

Fantastic article, learned a lot and really enjoyed it. Normally installing nvidia drivers is bumping around in the dark until it seems to work. Thank You!

By: Silver Moon

Silver Moon — Sat, 19 Apr 2014 14:39:00 +0000

In reply to gnugr. that's a wonderful magic spell, but this is linux mint and things need to be easy for kids.

By: gnugr

gnugr — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 16:42:00 +0000

The best way is the Debian way:

aptitude -r install linux-headers-`uname -r|sed ‘s,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,’` nvidia-kernel-dkms && mkdir /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d ; echo -e ‘Section “Device”ntIdentifier “My GPU”ntDriver “nvidia”nEndSection’ > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf

Then restart system to blacklist Nouveau
Ready!!!