Graphics drivers help

[diddly3000]

Hi, noob here. Installed mint 14 cinnamon yesterday and everything going nicely.
Just a question about gfx drivers. I installed the driver from software resources but I'm given an option of 4 choices which I haven't a clue what they are?
It's something about proprietary drivers and I choose one of the options.

What I'd like to know is what are these? And which is usually best to choose.and how can I check if my driver is indeed working good and I don't need to take further action.

Thanks

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[jungle_boy]

Open source drivers usually work better than proprietary drivers; to find out if your video card is running and rendering well, open the terminal and type:

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inxi -Gx

[catweazel]

Open source drivers usually work better than proprietary drivers

<facepalm>

Rubbish.

[diddly3000]

Haha I feel a fight coming on here I will try that terminal command and see what happens. Thanks

What is difference between open source and proprietary?

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[EmpireITtech]

TehGhodTrole likes to just say "facepalm" yet offer no explaination lol, don't let it get to you

As for the graphics drivers, what kind of card is it? nVidia? > http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/176
And you can post the response for the inxi -Gx here in the forum =]

[diddly3000]

TehGhodTrole likes to just say "facepalm" yet offer no explaination lol, don't let it get to you

As for the graphics drivers, what kind of card is it? nVidia? > http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/176
And you can post the response for the inxi -Gx here in the forum =]

It's a nvidea Asus gtx460 should have said that earlier.

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[diddly3000]

here is the result from the command guys

Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GF104 [GeForce GTX 460] bus-ID: 01:00.0
X.Org: 1.13.0 drivers: (unloaded: fbdev,vesa,nouveau) FAILED: nvidia Resolution: 1920x1080@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: GeForce GTX 460/PCIe/SSE2 GLX Version: 4.2.0 NVIDIA 304.51 Direct Rendering: Yes