Boot Mint 14 into VGA

[Rudemeister]

I am replacing Mint 13 with a fresh install of 14. Mint 13 works great, but I want to install 14. I have an HP laptop that has an Nvidia Quadro NVS 510M graphics chipset, which is based on the 7900 set. This graphics chip hates the default Nouveau driver. It always has. So I need to boot into a vga session. Then I need to find and install the 304.64 Nvidia driver. I appreciate your help.

[Rudemeister]

BTW, it does not matter which version of the nouveau driver I try to use. It also makes no differennce which distro I use with this driver. The Quadro NV 510M Nvidia chip in my laptop hates them all. I actually have 2 of these laptops. I bought another used one that was broken for cheap and I fixed it too. It also hates this driver. I think th default driver that should always be loaded in a distro is probably the VESA driver. This nouveau driver is a pain in the butt.

[AlbertP]

Why are you posting this? It seems you already found a solution by booting in recovery mode and installing the NVIDIA driver. You can boot the Mint DVD in compatibility mode by pressing a key during "Automatic boot in 10 seconds". For an installed Mint you can select Recovery Mode in Grub.

Removing Nouveau would be a very drastic measure for the 1% of computers that cannot boot at all with it.