How to install nvidia drivers linux mint 16

 · Software For Linux Mint. Install Nvidia Optimus Drivers on Linux Mint In this article, I will show you how to install Nvidia drivers on Linux Mint with Optimus supported graphics card. Most of the new Laptops/notebooks these days have Optimus supported graphics card installed. Install Nvidia Optimus Drivers on Linux Mint  · sudo apt-get install --install-recommends nvidia-driver I may not update the version anymore, so I will tell you instead, how to find out (manually) that there is a new version. As there are many ways, the most comfortable for me is (as a normal . You can install Nvidia drivers from “Driver Manager”. Click on Linux Mint “Menu” and search for “driver” and you should see “Driver Manager” on the list. Open “Driver Manager” and you should see a list of the proprietary hardwares you’re using.

Download the official Nvidia Driver and place it in the home folder Optional: rename the NVIDIA-Linux-x86_run driver to www.doorway.ru I use www.doorway.ru because i don't want to write the whole nvidia name into the terminal. 2. Open up the terminal and write systemctl set-default www.doorway.ru 3. Now we are going to reboot the system, write reboot. Linux Mint is now using the open source nouveau driver. To install Nvidia drivers, click on ‘nvidia (recommended)’ and click on Apply changes. The installation should begin. It should take several minutes depending on your internet connection. Once the installation is complete, just click on “Restart” to restart your computer. Even so, unfortunately this is still the safest (or maybe that's not the right word, let's say the least breakage prone) way of installing NEWER Nvidia drivers in Ubuntu or Linux Mint. I should also mention that the PPA provides packages for all supported Ubuntu (, , , and ) and Linux Mint (18, 17 and 13) versions.

That said, I have a "MB NVIDIA GeForce GT " graphics card installed in my Windows 10 Pro host that Linux Mint doesn't seem to want to. 4 ago Disclaimer - please read before you install anything. Today, I ran into an old laptop, with Nvidia Geforce GT M, which is not supported. 1 ago Install the latest Nvidia graphics drivers on Linux Mint 16 Petra for best performance of Nvidia graphics cards and GPUs.