[SOLVED] Nvidia GeForce GT 710

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I'm using Linux Mint 20.1 and recently had to replace my elderly graphics card. I'm not a gamer so I went for an NVIDIA GeForce GT 710, which I installed and have struggled to get my system to use it..
Here's the output from the command below

chris@chris-hp-workstation-xw6200:~$ lspci -k | grep -A 2 -i "VGA"
40:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK208B [GeForce GT 710] (rev a1)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] GK208B [GeForce GT 710]
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
chris@chris-hp-workstation-xw6200:~$

This seems to say that all is OK but when I start the PC I get a message saying that I am not using graphics hardware acceleration and will have poor performance. It is correct, I get terrible results can't play the simplest of videos (which worked fine on my old card)..
If I take the option to run Driver Manager and select the NVIDIA recommended driver of NVIDIA-DRIVER-470 it just runs and runs for ages with no result

Am I doing something wrong ???

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This seems to say that all is OK but when I start the PC I get a message saying that I am not using graphics hardware acceleration and will have poor performance.

When you get that message, restart X Server with Ctl-Alt-Backspace. If that corrects the issue, a more permanent solution is in this post [SOLVED] NVIDIA driver failing sometimes on boot ("no hardware acceleration"). Let us know if the fix roblm recommends in the second post addresses the issue for you.

If I take the option to run Driver Manager and select the NVIDIA recommended driver of NVIDIA-DRIVER-470 it just runs and runs for ages with no result

Perhaps there is an issue with the server on the other end? I do not know. I would just recommend trying on a different day.

Often, when the newer driver is available, there is an update which comes through Update Manager which will update your current driver to the new version. It may be that the update version is not yet available. The Nvidia-470 driver just came out a few days ago.

Edited to fix typo.

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Thanks for the swift response, restarting with CRTL-ALT-BACKSPACE has no effect, still the same. I will try the second solution tomorrow and report back.

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Thanks for the swift response, restarting with CRTL-ALT-BACKSPACE has no effect, still the same. I will try the second solution tomorrow and report back.

If Ctl-Alt-Backspace does not fix the issue, then I would not expect the fix roblm recommends to work.

You should not need a newer driver for the hardware acceleration to work. There may be something else not quite correct. What is the output of inxi -Fxxxrz and dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia?

Click </> from the mini toolbar above the textbox where you type your reply and then place your cursor between the code markers and paste the results of each command between the code markers [code]Results[/code]. This will let us know how Mint sees your hardware.

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chris@chris-hp-workstation-xw6200:~$ inxi -Fxxxrz
System:
  Kernel: 5.11.0-25-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
  Desktop: Cinnamon 5.0.5 wm: muffin 5.0.1 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 
  Distro: Linux Mint 20.2 Uma base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Hewlett-Packard product: hp workstation xw6200 
  v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 6 v: HP Minitower serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 08B8h serial: <filter> BIOS: Hewlett-Packard 
  v: 786B7 v2.10 date: 09/05/2006 
CPU:
  Topology: 2x Single Core model: Intel Xeon bits: 64 type: MT SMP 
  arch: Netburst Smithfield rev: 1 L2 cache: 2048 KiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 bogomips: 25602 
  Speed: 3200 MHz min/max: N/A Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3200 2: 3200 3: 3200 
  4: 3200 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GK208B [GeForce GT 710] vendor: Micro-Star MSI 
  driver: nvidia v: 470.57.02 bus ID: 40:00.0 chip ID: 10de:128b 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau 
  unloaded: vesa alternate: nvidia resolution: 1920x1080~77Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 12.0.0 128 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 21.2.0-rc1 
  compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801EB/ER AC97 Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: snd_intel8x0 v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.5 chip ID: 8086:24d5 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GK208 HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 40:00.1 chip ID: 10de:0e0f 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.11.0-25-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Broadcom and subsidiaries NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI 
  Express 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: tg3 v: kernel port: 5400 bus ID: 01:00.0 
  chip ID: 14e4:1677 
  IF: enp1s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.93 TiB used: 1.45 TiB (75.1%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: SanDisk model: SSD PLUS 1000GB size: 931.52 GiB 
  speed: <unknown> serial: <filter> rev: 00RL 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb model: SATA3 120GB SSD size: 111.79 GiB speed: <unknown> 
  serial: <filter> rev: 2A0 scheme: MBR 
  ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: Crucial model: CT1000BX500SSD1 size: 931.51 GiB 
  speed: <unknown> serial: <filter> rev: 030 scheme: MBR 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 108.55 GiB used: 63.06 GiB (58.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb5 
Sensors:
  Message: No sensors data was found. Is sensors configured? 
Repos:
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  1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb/ stable main
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  1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu focal main
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Info:
  Processes: 242 Uptime: 3m Memory: 5.80 GiB used: 1.35 GiB (23.3%) 
  Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 7/9 
  Shell: bash v: 5.0.17 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.0.38 

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i  libnvidia-cfg1-470:amd64                      470.57.02-0ubuntu0.20.04.1                       amd64        NVIDIA binary OpenGL/GLX configuration library
ii  libnvidia-common-470                          470.57.02-0ubuntu0.20.04.1                       all          Shared files used by the NVIDIA libraries
rc  libnvidia-compute-460:amd64                   460.91.03-0ubuntu0.20.04.1                       amd64        NVIDIA libcompute package
rc  libnvidia-compute-460-server:amd64            460.91.03-0ubuntu0.20.04.1                       amd64        NVIDIA libcompute package
ii  libnvidia-compute-470:amd64                   470.57.02-0ubuntu0.20.04.1                       amd64        NVIDIA libcompute package
ii  libnvidia-compute-470:i386                    470.57.02-0ubuntu0.20.04.1                       i386         NVIDIA libcompute package
ii  libnvidia-decode-470:amd64                    470.57.02-0ubuntu0.20.04.1                       amd64        NVIDIA Video Decoding runtime libraries
ii  libnvidia-decode-470:i386                     470.57.02-0ubuntu0.20.04.1                       i386         NVIDIA Video Decoding runtime libraries
ii  libnvidia-encode-470:amd64                    470.57.02-0ubuntu0.20.04.1                       amd64        NVENC Video Encoding runtime library
ii  libnvidia-encode-470:i386                     470.57.02-0ubuntu0.20.04.1                       i386         NVENC Video Encoding runtime library
ii  libnvidia-extra-470:amd64                     470.57.02-0ubuntu0.20.04.1                       amd64        Extra libraries for the NVIDIA driver
ii  libnvidia-fbc1-470:amd64                      470.57.02-0ubuntu0.20.04.1                       amd64        NVIDIA OpenGL-based Framebuffer Capture runtime library
ii  libnvidia-fbc1-470:i386                       470.57.02-0ubuntu0.20.04.1                       i386         NVIDIA OpenGL-based Framebuffer Capture runtime library
ii  libnvidia-gl-470:amd64                        470.57.02-0ubuntu0.20.04.1                       amd64        NVIDIA OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES GLVND libraries and Vulkan ICD
ii  libnvidia-gl-470:i386                         470.57.02-0ubuntu0.20.04.1                       i386         NVIDIA OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES GLVND libraries and Vulkan ICD
ii  libnvidia-ifr1-470:amd64                      470.57.02-0ubuntu0.20.04.1                       amd64        NVIDIA OpenGL-based Inband Frame Readback runtime library
ii  libnvidia-ifr1-470:i386                       470.57.02-0ubuntu0.20.04.1                       i386         NVIDIA OpenGL-based Inband Frame Readback runtime library
ii  libnvtt2:amd64                                2.0.8-1+dfsg-8.2build2                           amd64        NVIDIA Texture Tools
ii  nouveau-firmware                              20091212-0ubuntu1                                all          Firmware for nVidia graphics cards
ii  nvidia-compute-utils-470                      470.57.02-0ubuntu0.20.04.1                       amd64        NVIDIA compute utilities
ii  nvidia-dkms-470                               470.57.02-0ubuntu0.20.04.1                       amd64        NVIDIA DKMS package
ii  nvidia-driver-470                             470.57.02-0ubuntu0.20.04.1                       amd64        NVIDIA driver metapackage
ii  nvidia-kernel-common-470                      470.57.02-0ubuntu0.20.04.1                       amd64        Shared files used with the kernel module
ii  nvidia-kernel-source-470                      470.57.02-0ubuntu0.20.04.1                       amd64        NVIDIA kernel source package
ii  nvidia-prime                                  0.8.16~0.20.04.1                                 all          Tools to enable NVIDIA's Prime
ii  nvidia-settings                               470.57.01-0ubuntu0.20.04.1                       amd64        Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
ii  nvidia-utils-470                              470.57.02-0ubuntu0.20.04.1                       amd64        NVIDIA driver support binaries
ii  screen-resolution-extra                       0.18build1                                       all          Extension for the nvidia-settings control panel
ii  xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-470                 470.57.02-0ubuntu0.20.04.1                       amd64        NVIDIA binary Xorg driver

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Stop Press!

I used ROBLM's response and everything is now as it should be - I can use NVIDIA X Server settings and Greenwithenvy AND watch saved hi-res videos without the playback stuttering.

THANK YOU ALL !

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When the Nvidia device driver loads, but the nouveau display driver does instead of the nvidia like it did below, that is often and indication the fix to get the nvidia modules to load sooner (the fix recommended by roblm) will work.

Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GK208B [GeForce GT 710] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: nvidia v: 470.57.02 bus ID: 40:00.0 chip ID: 10de:128b

Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau
unloaded: vesa alternate: nvidia resolution: 1920x1080~77Hz
OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 12.0.0 128 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 21.2.0-rc1
compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes

Just posting that info so when other come across this thread they could know to check for that. Glad to hear your system is now working as desired.