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Hello,

 

Anyone know how to install Nvidia's drivers on Mint (Cinnamon 17.1) ? I've spent over an hour with guides that don't seem to work.

 

I'm using a GTX 970 on a 64-bit system.

 

Thanks in advance, any help is appreciated.

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Quick thoughts on system: I7 is extremely quick and I'm glad I spent the extra for hyper-threading. I regret my decision to get the GTX 970, it has horrible coil whine. There isn't any excuse for this terrible whine I and others are having. I HIGHLY recommend a 144hz monitor. Future Improvements/upgrades: Rubber fan mounts, basic speakers, more ram (for a total of 16gb), replace GPU.

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i only have got experience with debian, but i'll searched for you:
 

if you can not boot: add "nomodeset" as a boot flag and if that still does not result in a sucessfull boot: "quiet splash --"  remove those line from the boot entry.

you can edit them temporaly in grub, with pressing "e" and than i think f10 to boot.

 

if you are able to boot use the Driver Manager.

 

source: http://linuxmint.com/rel_rebecca_cinnamon.php

 

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have you looked at this? http://www.binarytides.com/install-nvidia-drivers-linux-mint-16/

i am not a native speaker of the english language

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Open "additional drivers" and let it find the proprietary drivers. Select them, let it install them and reboot.

in ubuntu at least, I've always had better luck getting the linux driver from nvidia directly, and installing that. I know mint isn't ubuntu, but they're both debian based and very similar

 

The proprietary drivers aren't always up to date.

 

Generally speaking though, I prefer the open source noueveau driver over the other options. Ithas never given me any problems; though it's not as feature rich as the nvidia official driver. But it just works. Can't beat that.

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Hello,

 

Anyone know how to install Nvidia's drivers on Mint (Cinnamon 17.1) ? I've spent over an hour with guides that don't seem to work.

 

I'm using a GTX 970 on a 64-bit system.

 

Thanks in advance, any help is appreciated.

  1. Open the driver manager, and select the nvidia driver for your card.
  2. Reboot.
  3. Open a terminal where the driver installer is located
  4. type the following commands
  5. sudo nvidia-xconfig
  6. sudo service mdm stop
  7. This will close the X.Org graphics server, reverting you to the command line. Log in with your username and password and navigate to the driver installer directory using cd <foldername>, replacing <foldername> with the name of the folder.
  8. Now run this command
  9. sudo bash <driver-installer>
  10. Replace the <driver-installer> in the previous command with the file name of the downloaded driver. You can view all files in a folder using the command ls.
  11. When complete, type sudo service mdm start
  12. Log in and reboot
  13. Open a terminal again and type sudo nvidia-xconfig

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in ubuntu at least, I've always had better luck getting the linux driver from nvidia directly, and installing that. I know mint isn't ubuntu, but they're both debian based and very similar

 

The proprietary drivers aren't always up to date.

 

Generally speaking though, I prefer the open source noueveau driver over the other options. Ithas never given me any problems; though it's not as feature rich as the nvidia official driver. But it just works. Can't beat that.

 

That's true, but it's the simplest way to get it working to start. If he's not content with performance he can always download them from nvidia directly later.

Don't ask to ask, just ask... please 🤨

sudo chmod -R 000 /*

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I'm able to boot into Mint just fine, and the link didn't help.

Nothing is showing in the Driver Manager.

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The command "sudo service mdm stop" just made my screen go black, nothing else happened.

 

 

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What do you mean "Additional Drivers"? Nothing shows up if I search for it on the system. "Driver Manager" lists nothing if that is what you refering to.

 

 

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Nothing shows up in my "Driver Manager". As I said above, "sudo service mdm stop" just makes my screen go black :/

 

Sorry for the trouble I'm causing. I tried downloading the driver from Nvidia, and then run it. After doing my password, it just says something like "sh:  0:  Can not run blablabla.run".

"Normandy" i7 4790K - GTX 970 - Phantom 410 (Gun metal) - Z97 Extreme4 (asrock) - 128GB Crucial SSD - 1TB WD HDD - H60 Refurb. - 7 case fans | G710+ Keyboard, G230 Headset, Acer GN246HL Monitor.

Quick thoughts on system: I7 is extremely quick and I'm glad I spent the extra for hyper-threading. I regret my decision to get the GTX 970, it has horrible coil whine. There isn't any excuse for this terrible whine I and others are having. I HIGHLY recommend a 144hz monitor. Future Improvements/upgrades: Rubber fan mounts, basic speakers, more ram (for a total of 16gb), replace GPU.

144hz is love. 144hz is life. I like to submit unfinished posts then do about 20 edits. I like the Night Theme too.
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What do you mean "Additional Drivers"? Nothing shows up if I search for it on the system. "Driver Manager" lists nothing if that is what you refering to.

 

Hm. Apparently they took it out. It's in ubuntu, and mint is a fork of ubuntu, I thought I remembered it having it.

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sudo chmod -R 000 /*

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Hm. Apparently they took it out. It's in ubuntu, and mint is a fork of ubuntu, I thought I remembered it having it.

Ah that makes sense, thanks for the suggestion anyways.

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Quick thoughts on system: I7 is extremely quick and I'm glad I spent the extra for hyper-threading. I regret my decision to get the GTX 970, it has horrible coil whine. There isn't any excuse for this terrible whine I and others are having. I HIGHLY recommend a 144hz monitor. Future Improvements/upgrades: Rubber fan mounts, basic speakers, more ram (for a total of 16gb), replace GPU.

144hz is love. 144hz is life. I like to submit unfinished posts then do about 20 edits. I like the Night Theme too.
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I figured it out. I don't no why, but absolutly none of the guides, tutorials, forum posts, etc. worked for me. I eventually figured it out myself by going to Package Manager and just installing it there. One restart later and I'm good to go!

 

Thanks for all the help everyone, never expected something like installing a driver to be so... confusing.

"Normandy" i7 4790K - GTX 970 - Phantom 410 (Gun metal) - Z97 Extreme4 (asrock) - 128GB Crucial SSD - 1TB WD HDD - H60 Refurb. - 7 case fans | G710+ Keyboard, G230 Headset, Acer GN246HL Monitor.

Quick thoughts on system: I7 is extremely quick and I'm glad I spent the extra for hyper-threading. I regret my decision to get the GTX 970, it has horrible coil whine. There isn't any excuse for this terrible whine I and others are having. I HIGHLY recommend a 144hz monitor. Future Improvements/upgrades: Rubber fan mounts, basic speakers, more ram (for a total of 16gb), replace GPU.

144hz is love. 144hz is life. I like to submit unfinished posts then do about 20 edits. I like the Night Theme too.
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Since I'm eying a GTX970 and have already run into the same issue with an Asus GTX750-DCSL-2GD5 as is described in the following link...

April 30, 2015
Linux Mint 17 and the Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 | Heliophobic Hobby Hunting
https://lindsaybradford.wordpress.com/2015/04/30/linux-mint-17-and-the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-970/

THE EASIEST WAY to get the latest nVidia GeForce graphics card drivers which are not yet available in Linux Mint 17.2 (or its Ubuntu contemporary); run the following commands in Terminal:
 
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
 
After you have run the above commands, install the latest non-Beta version of the nVidia GeForce driver via Linux Mint's 'Driver Manager'.
 
To determine whether or not said latest version of the nVidia driver is a non-Beta release, compare its version number with those of the 'Linux 64-bit' nVidia drivers displayed on nVidia's GeForce web site:
 
Drivers | GeForce
http://www.geforce.com/drivers
 
xorg-edgers fresh X crack : “xorg crack pushers” team
https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

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