Can't recover Nvidia driver after GPU upgrade

uncle_rufus · 11 Aug 2015 at 11:18

Hey all,

Scratching my head over this one... the Mint 14 partition of my system seems to have screwed up since I replaced my GPU (670 - 970) and I can't seem to get it back into a working state...

Here's the symptoms:
- Only 1 out of 3 of my monitors displays anything

- If I go to Nvidia settings to fix this, I get a popup telling me something isn't configured and to run an nvidia command. Doing this as root changes nothing...

- So I downloaded the drivers for my new GPU manually, shutdown X as instructed, and ran the driver .run script - but I get a message saying something like "the pre-install script failed, continue anyway?"

- I also tried updating nvidia-current using apt but it also doesn't change anything

- Under the "additional drivers" tab of "software sources" where I think it used to allow me to select graphics driver sources etc. it's just blank and greyed-out

Am I being thick? What am I supposed to do to get this working? I could re-install if needs be though I was hoping to not have to do that

uncle_rufus · 11 Aug 2015 at 15:19

I think I did do that last night, but I'll try it again when I get home, thanks... (if I recall it seemed to think that "nvidia-current" was already at the latest version or something along those lines)

uncle_rufus · 13 Aug 2015 at 07:08

Cheers, I'll have a go but starting to think I might just re-install...

Tempted to give Manjaro a try as I keep hearing good things about it

uncle_rufus · 16 Aug 2015 at 21:20

OhEsEcks said:
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Useful stuff, thanks... I have reinstalled anyway now but always good to get some tips, might be useful in the future

Edward78 said:
I just watched a video on youtube sounds interesting, the clock issue & Chrome/keyring issues sound annoying, but will get fixed I am sure...This is .rpm based I bet, so hopefully YaST compatible, since I stopped using opensuse, I have missed YaST...

Seems to be running well for me so far, didn't hit any major issues with the install; took a couple of tries to get the UEFI boot from USB to not hang... Also I clobbered the boot manager slightly, locking me out of Windows, but it was a simple case of re-installing REFind to the boot partition from within Manjaro. Haven't spent a long time with it yet but seems snappy and light on resources (it's just Xfce; though I quite like it, I expected I might think it was a bit too plain but it's alright)

Going to get to work setting things up and testing etc. now