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Installing Nvidia Drivers
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Avehicle7887 Dec 4, 2015
Quoting: coryrj19951Ok, I got mint installed with the proprietary drivers, through the PPA. I still have one question though, do the open source drivers support the EVGA GTX 970?

The open source drivers can only handle the 900 series in software mode. More about it here: http://www.fudzilla.com/news/graphics/37544-nvidia-is-as-open-source-friendly-as-a-great-white-shark
coryrj19951 Dec 4, 2015
Quoting: Avehicle7887The open source drivers can only handle the 900 series in software mode. More about it here: http://www.fudzilla.com/news/graphics/37544-nvidia-is-as-open-source-friendly-as-a-great-white-shark

Thanks for the link, that pretty much explains every problem I had so far.

I think this sufficiently explains this though: ;)
Quoting: Linkit is about as open source friendly as an Apple fanboy who has been queuing for two months for the latest pointless tool he cant use.
oldrocker99 Dec 5, 2015
Quoting: TheBoss
Quoting: oldrocker99I've always had nothing but success installing the drivers from this PPA:
 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
apt-cache search "NVIDIA binary driver"

And then install whichever driver you wish. It's always worked for me. If you do install the driver from nVidia, make sure you have dkms installed, so you can safely update the kernel without having to reinstall the driver.

That PPA doesn't have the newest drivers immediately, nor, of course, the beta drivers, but they aren't that far behind either, and when a new driver comes out, a simple apt-get upgrade command will do the trick.

No, no no. Don't use that PPA.

Use the official PPA https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubun/ppa
Whoops. My bad. I was working from memory when I erroneously posted that, and the official PPA is the one to use.
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