Mint 14 and Nvidia 173 Legacy Driver Install
Posted: Wed May 01, 2013 10:03 am
Currently the Nvidia 173 driver installation fails for Mint/Ubuntu packages due to failed dependencies, so manual installation of the Nvidia 173 drivers is necessary.
For Linux Mint 14 and Xorg 1.13
By default Linux Mint 14 seems to use the nouveau driver for Nvidia cards.
To change to the current Nvidia 173 legacy drivers (I used the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.37-pkg1.run.sh driver file)
copy the Nvidia driver file to /home/"your user name"/Downloads (replace "your user name" with your user name)
using Terminal, update the headers
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic
then log in as root using your password
Ctrl + Alt+ F1
then
cd /home/"your user name"/Downloads
then
Stop xserver
/etc/init.d/mdm stop
then
run Nvidia driver install
sh Nvidiadriverfile.sh
I used sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.37-pkg1.run.sh
Let the nvidia driver installation do the blacklisting of the nouveau driver when running the Nvidia driver install and reboot and start the install again.
log in as root using your password
Ctrl + Alt+ F1
then
cd /home/"your user name"/Downloads
then
Stop xserver
/etc/init.d/mdm stop
then
run Nvidia driver install
sh Nvidiadriverfile.sh
then for Agp cards after the install
reboot and edit the xorg.conf file
sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
and add
Option "NvAgp" "1"
to Section "Device"
to fix wake up from sleep problems for Agp cards (wake up from sleep problems also happen with the nouveau driver for Nvidia Agp cards)
then
Install nvidia-settings utility
For Linux Mint 14 and Xorg 1.13
By default Linux Mint 14 seems to use the nouveau driver for Nvidia cards.
To change to the current Nvidia 173 legacy drivers (I used the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.37-pkg1.run.sh driver file)
copy the Nvidia driver file to /home/"your user name"/Downloads (replace "your user name" with your user name)
using Terminal, update the headers
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic
then log in as root using your password
Ctrl + Alt+ F1
then
cd /home/"your user name"/Downloads
then
Stop xserver
/etc/init.d/mdm stop
then
run Nvidia driver install
sh Nvidiadriverfile.sh
I used sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.37-pkg1.run.sh
Let the nvidia driver installation do the blacklisting of the nouveau driver when running the Nvidia driver install and reboot and start the install again.
log in as root using your password
Ctrl + Alt+ F1
then
cd /home/"your user name"/Downloads
then
Stop xserver
/etc/init.d/mdm stop
then
run Nvidia driver install
sh Nvidiadriverfile.sh
then for Agp cards after the install
reboot and edit the xorg.conf file
sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
and add
Option "NvAgp" "1"
to Section "Device"
to fix wake up from sleep problems for Agp cards (wake up from sleep problems also happen with the nouveau driver for Nvidia Agp cards)
then
Install nvidia-settings utility