On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 2:58 PM VY <vyau5...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello all, need some advice on installing Nvidia driver. > > I just got a Dell laptop and plan to use Linux Mint on it. > I saw under "Software Manager" of latest Linux Mint, it has an Nvidia driver > of version x.x.047. Nvidia website has version x.x.51. > I downloaded the latest from Nvidia. > When trying to run it, it said that I have "X server" running and I need to > quite that before > running installation again. > > What is the recommendation? Should I stick with the latest on Software > Manager? > Or if I am adventurous enough, I do "sudo init 3", install the latest > driver and reboot? > > Just want to see what folks have done recently. > > thanks > > -v
I would vote don't be adventurous with Nvidia drivers unless you really need something from a new driver or you really have a lot of time to waste fixing things. Bill
