As a work around, I have installed nouveau driver instead of NDIVIA 304.xx driver at the moment.
I have just made a quick investigation for some tests.
SP6:
Just after clean installation of LMDE SP6 (MATE 64BIT), Device Driver Manager wrongly identified NDIVIA 319.72 instead of NDIVIA 304.116-2
SP6 clean upgrade to SP8
then Device Driver Manager correctly identified NDIVIA 304.116-2
however, after driver installation, Xwindow doesn’t work (just like my own upgrade from SP7 to SP8)
It seems installed 319.72, not 304.116-2 ?? I am not sure, I have attached Xorg.0.log here, please verify this.
Xorg.0.log
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[ 44.063]
X.Org X Server 1.14.3
Release Date: 2013-09-12
[ 44.063] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
[ 44.063] Build Operating System: Linux 3.12.0-rc6-patser+ x86_64 Debian
[ 44.063] Current Operating System: Linux testsp6 3.11-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.11.8-1 (2013-11-13) x86_64
[ 44.063] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.11-2-amd64 root=UUID=95afd1cd-358a-4dca-b4e2-bf8575fd9a15 ro quiet splash
[ 44.063] Build Date: 25 November 2013 01:54:46PM
[ 44.063] xorg-server 2:1.14.3-5 (Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@ubuntu.com>)
[ 44.063] Current version of pixman: 0.30.2
[ 44.063] Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
[ 44.063] Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[ 44.063] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Wed Feb 19 02:27:00 2014
[ 44.063] (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
[ 44.064] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[ 44.064] (==) ServerLayout "Layout0"
[ 44.064] (**) |-->Screen "Screen0" (0)
[ 44.064] (**) | |-->Monitor "Monitor0"
[ 44.065] (**) | |-->Device "Device0"
[ 44.065] (**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0"
[ 44.065] (**) |-->Input Device "Mouse0"
[ 44.065] (==) Automatically adding devices
[ 44.065] (==) Automatically enabling devices
[ 44.065] (==) Automatically adding GPU devices
[ 44.065] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
[ 44.065] Entry deleted from font path.
[ 44.065] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/" does not exist.
[ 44.065] Entry deleted from font path.
[ 44.065] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/" does not exist.
[ 44.065] Entry deleted from font path.
[ 44.065] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi" does not exist.
[ 44.065] Entry deleted from font path.
[ 44.065] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi" does not exist.
[ 44.065] Entry deleted from font path.
[ 44.065] (==) FontPath set to:
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,
built-ins
[ 44.065] (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
[ 44.065] (WW) Hotplugging is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled.
[ 44.065] (WW) Disabling Keyboard0
[ 44.065] (WW) Disabling Mouse0
[ 44.065] (II) Loader magic: 0x7fd1b0e6fd00
[ 44.065] (II) Module ABI versions:
[ 44.065] X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
[ 44.065] X.Org Video Driver: 14.1
[ 44.065] X.Org XInput driver : 19.1
[ 44.065] X.Org Server Extension : 7.0
[ 44.068] (--) PCI:*(0:0:5:0) 10de:0241:1631:e027 rev 162, Mem @ 0xfc000000/16777216, 0xe0000000/268435456, 0xfb000000/16777216, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072
[ 44.068] (II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket)
[ 44.068] Initializing built-in extension Generic Event Extension
[ 44.068] Initializing built-in extension SHAPE
[ 44.068] Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
[ 44.068] Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
[ 44.068] Initializing built-in extension XTEST
[ 44.068] Initializing built-in extension BIG-REQUESTS
[ 44.068] Initializing built-in extension SYNC
[ 44.068] Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
[ 44.068] Initializing built-in extension XC-MISC
[ 44.068] Initializing built-in extension SECURITY
[ 44.068] Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
[ 44.068] Initializing built-in extension XFIXES
[ 44.068] Initializing built-in extension RENDER
[ 44.068] Initializing built-in extension RANDR
[ 44.068] Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE
[ 44.068] Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE
[ 44.068] Initializing built-in extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
[ 44.068] Initializing built-in extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
[ 44.068] Initializing built-in extension RECORD
[ 44.068] Initializing built-in extension DPMS
[ 44.068] Initializing built-in extension X-Resource
[ 44.068] Initializing built-in extension XVideo
[ 44.068] Initializing built-in extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
[ 44.069] Initializing built-in extension SELinux
[ 44.069] Initializing built-in extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
[ 44.069] Initializing built-in extension XFree86-DGA
[ 44.069] Initializing built-in extension XFree86-DRI
[ 44.069] Initializing built-in extension DRI2
[ 44.069] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
[ 44.069] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/linux/libglx.so
[ 44.111] (II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
[ 44.111] compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
[ 44.111] Module class: X.Org Server Extension
[ 44.111] (II) NVIDIA GLX Module 319.72 Wed Oct 30 17:39:53 PDT 2013
[ 44.111] Loading extension GLX
[ 44.111] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
[ 44.111] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
[ 44.113] (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
[ 44.113] compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
[ 44.113] Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[ 44.113] (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 319.72 Wed Oct 30 17:19:14 PDT 2013
[ 44.113] (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
[ 44.113] (++) using VT number 7
[ 44.115] (II) Loading sub module "fb"
[ 44.115] (II) LoadModule: "fb"
[ 44.115] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfb.so
[ 44.116] (II) Module fb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 44.116] compiled for 1.14.3, module version = 1.0.0
[ 44.116] ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
[ 44.116] (WW) Unresolved symbol: fbGetGCPrivateKey
[ 44.116] (II) Loading sub module "wfb"
[ 44.116] (II) LoadModule: "wfb"
[ 44.116] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so
[ 44.116] (II) Module wfb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 44.116] compiled for 1.14.3, module version = 1.0.0
[ 44.116] ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
[ 44.116] (II) Loading sub module "shadow"
[ 44.116] (II) LoadModule: "shadow"
[ 44.116] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libshadow.so
[ 44.117] (II) Module shadow: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 44.117] compiled for 1.14.3, module version = 1.1.0
[ 44.117] ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
[ 44.117] (II) Loading sub module "ramdac"
[ 44.117] (II) LoadModule: "ramdac"
[ 44.117] (II) Module "ramdac" already built-in
[ 44.117] (WW) NVIDIA(0): The NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE GPU installed in this system is
[ 44.117] (WW) NVIDIA(0): supported through the NVIDIA 304.xx Legacy drivers. Please
[ 44.117] (WW) NVIDIA(0): visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more
[ 44.117] (WW) NVIDIA(0): information. The 319.72 NVIDIA driver will ignore this
[ 44.117] (WW) NVIDIA(0): GPU. Continuing probe...
[ 44.117] (EE) No devices detected.
[ 44.117] (EE)
Fatal server error:
[ 44.117] (EE) no screens found(EE)
[ 44.117] (EE)
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.x.org
for help.
[ 44.117] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[ 44.117] (EE)
as Device Driver Manager is extremely helpful for beginners like myself.
This is my first post and very new to this forum, if something is wrong /or missing please forgive me !
Many thanks for this great Linux Mint OS to everybody