This is a simple tutorial to help you get the nvidia proprietary driver to work on linux mint 9 (isadora) using grub2. part i (why) the open source community has decided to create their own open source video driver for nvidia video cords, called nouveau.. The intel linux graphics installer only supports ubuntu 13.10 and 13.04 (and fedora), and even though the drivers should work on other ubuntu-based linux distributions like linux mint, the installer doesn't work and the intel repository isn't added automatically.. Run the program on linux mint. intel linux graphics drivers installer, when run, makes the test of name distribution, and if it's not ubuntu, it refuses to work. therefore we will make so that the program "thought" that running in ubuntu. run installer and update intel driver. intel linux graphics drivers installer on linux mint..
The recommendation that i got from that post was that cinnamon does not run very good on the intel ironlake graphics chip. the xfce or mate editions of mint will definitely work better.. 11 thoughts on “ how to install the latest nvidia drivers on linux mint 16 petra ” bruce . march 17, 2017 at 2:02 pm. the list of drivers didn’t show up in the driver manager. yet after i ran the $ aptitude versions ^nvidia command i got a whole list of drivers.. Unlike windows, nvidia drivers for linux desktops are quite hard to come by, and installing the latest drivers on your linux desktop can be quite an arduous process. fortunately for linux users, there are the third party graphics drivers ppa which keeps an updated nvidia driver for installation..
