nVidia G210 card and mint 64 bit - solved

[alun_sundry]

I was sure that I recently managed to get one version of the current nVidia driver for the G210 card, when I was using 32 bit mint 9. When I installed 195 yesterday the resolution was 800x600 and not 1024x768 and effects could not be enabled. I quite like the Gnome Compositing, but there is a bit of flicker with the default open source driver and I'm sure things could be better. I see there is also a 256 driver in the ubuntu archives, but that doesn't seem the one I need I think, even though my windows driver begins 256. I have meddled with xorg before but I'd thought the procedure had changed.

I did get one other driver straight of the nVidia site with a .run suffix, but didn't have much luck installing that, exiting X and all that, I'd rather use the normal method.

All advice appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[water spirit]

I installed this ppa and then updated and now have this driver 256.44. I have GE Force GT 230M

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu lucid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu lucid main

You should read this first

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates

I had a number of issues previously including low graphics, not stopping, not booting but this driver seems to be fine for me.

[alun_sundry]

For some reason the driver suggested in Hardware Drivers has installed now, correct resolution too, and Compiz is now working - except that the logo during startup doesn't show correctly but merely as text. I think this will have to do, unless anyone recognises what's happened here and can tell me.

[vincent]

The ugly boot screen is a known problem...here's how to fix it: http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/37

[alun_sundry]

Thanks, I hadn't noticed that 24 bit had been altered during installation of the driver to 8 bit and now all is well.