Hello Karl and thank you for the quick reply.
What happens is that once I've set up my laptop with Mint, my external monitor wouldn't work on a proper resolution, therefore I had to use the following commands to get it to work:
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gtf 1920 1080 60
xrandr --newmode "1920x1080_60.00" 172.80 1920 2040 2248 2576 1080 1081 1084 1118 -HSync +Vsync
xrandr --addmode "1920x1080_60.00"
The problem is that these commands weren't persistent and I had to run them every time I booted. In order to fix that I tried modifying my xorg.conf file, but I didn't have one initially, and once I created one it wasn't loaded.
After installing my nVidia drivers, it did not boot with a user interface. I logged into my account and typed "startx", and I get the message "Could not start session: ubuntu".
I am going to try installing "nvidia-current" this time as you suggested. I do not have Cinnamon, I only have MATE installed.
As requested, here is the xorg.conf file (which was automatically generated in /etc/X11/ by nvidia-xconfig):
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# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 304.48 (buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-05.nvidia.com) Sun Sep 9 21:29:02 PDT 2012
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
As for the forum posts, yes, sorry about that, I've mentioned I have Ubuntu because the first time I claimed I had Mint they moved the post to "Other OS" category which isn't as frequented as the "Hardware" section.
Since I already had an account on those forums and the distro's are similar, my first thought was to post the problem there.