Linux Mint Update Nouveau Driver

[Slo2025]

Is it possible to Update Nouveau Driver in Linux Mint?

 

Resolution Stuck at 1024x768 without NVIDIA Drivers. I'm using Linux Mint 22.2 and RTX 50 Series.

[OhioYJ]

Why not just use the Nvidia drivers? You can load the official Nvidia ones if you want if the Mint ones aren't working. 

 

There used to be newer drivers in synaptic (which I believe has been removed) but you can still use the terminal and apt install, to get newer versions than what are in the driver manager.  At least that used to be a thing, I had to do this for a while for my 4090. 

[Thomas53]

There may be new drivers on the NVIDIA website, but they recommend that you use the drivers built into the latest kernel which is version 6.17.1

[Slo2025]

Nouveau Driver comes with Linux Kernel?

[Nayr438]

Nouveau is part of the kernel, linux-firmware, and mesa stack.
For NVIDIA however you really just want their proprietary driver with their gpu-open kernel module. The open source NVIDIA stack won't really be all that viable until NOVA, NVK, and Zink are finished. Nova is a open source driver from RedHat that will replace the nouveau driver in the future for Turing and newer.