Ben using Mint for years, very happy with it. Done the rounds with a few distros over the years, got my hands dirty, but always come back to mint. Few niggles, but I find a way to work around them. Previously have a 560Ti until it recently decided to artifact to hell, so got a GTX 970 as a replacement. So far so good. Works fine with Nvidia 390 driver, dual-screens are all good, and performance is good. Not great, but good. Researching, I see that it should support the 410 driver, so google a bit, find the Nvidia ppa, add, remove old driver, install the 410, and upon reboot, only one screen working, and Nvidia driver seems to not be working. Fresh install again (I keep my main files backed up to external drive with Luckybackup), 390 installed again, and would really like the newer driver if possible. I've tried multiple things trying to install it before (hence the reinstall) which i foolishly didn't document. Currently experiencing mad pain from a pinched nerve in my lower back, so is affecting my concentration and patience. I'd rather get this right. I can usually work most things out myself, but this is eluding me, so any help would be appreciated. I'm sure i tried updating the kernel to help in one of my earlier attempts, but at this stage will wait until that is advised, as my patience is wearing thin with myself, and my back is killing me, not to mention keeping me awake.
tl:dr, 64 bit linux mint Cinnamon 19.1 install, up to date, with Nvidia 390 driver installed, wanting the 410 driver if possible, and previous attempts to install result in them not working
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System:
Host: Hellsing Kernel: 4.15.0-45-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 7.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.0.9 Distro: Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa
base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: P35-DS3P serial: <filter> BIOS: Award
v: F12 date: 06/19/2009
CPU:
Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 bits: 64 type: MCP
arch: Penryn rev: A L2 cache: 3072 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 21334
Speed: 2053 MHz min/max: 2000/2667 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2347 2: 2037
3: 2000 4: 2000
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] driver: nvidia v: 390.77
bus ID: 01:00.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: nvidia
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa
resolution: 1600x900~60Hz, 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 970/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.77
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 82801I HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0
Device-2: NVIDIA GF116 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1
Device-3: Microsoft LifeCam HD-3000 type: USB
driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus ID: 1-3:2
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.15.0-45-generic
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: d000 bus ID: 04:00.0
IF: enp4s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 3.18 TiB used: 1.39 TiB (43.8%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM010-2EP102 size: 931.51 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EZRX-00A8LB0
size: 931.51 GiB
ID-3: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: Samsung model: HD154UI size: 1.36 TiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 908.56 GiB used: 248.50 GiB (27.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb1
ID-2: swap-1 size: 7.45 GiB used: 524 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdb5
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 50.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 50 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 40%
Info:
Processes: 231 Uptime: 2h 39m Memory: 5.82 GiB used: 3.15 GiB (54.1%)
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 7.3.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.19
inxi: 3.0.27