How to add nvidia drivers after previous failure with linux mint?
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Published on 2014-06-06T02:03:41Z
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Before today, I had perfectly good drivers from nvidia for my linux mint (15) box. I decided to update it because my performance in TF2 is less than stellar, and then things went south. I used synaptic to install nvidia-331
and then rebooted, but when I selected Mint in GRUB I waited...and waited...and waited. Nothing happened, but the display stayed on (a completely black video was being output).
So I went into recovery mode from GRUB, went to root access, and apt-get remove --purge nvidia*
'd my way out of that mess, and installed nvidia-common
. Now my performance in graphic intensive stuff (read: games, blender) sucks, so I've been through the same thing a few times trying to re-install nvidia-current
. I just want to get it back how it was. Thanks for any help!
Nvidia GTX 560
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