I have an old Sony Vaio laptop that I’m trying to get Mint Xfce to work on. I needed to use compatibility mode when originally booting from the USB in case that’s relevant.

The issue I have is that after the mint logo, it’s just a black screen. A hard reset and starting in recovery mode will work, but I’d like to not have to go through recovery mode every time.

I’m assuming it’s a driver issue with the Nvidia card (GeForce 310M), but the Driver Manager just shows a checkmark saying no drivers needed and nothing else (I’m guessing I should be able to see current drivers or something, anything?).

I’ve spent the last couple of hours searching in forums and have yet to figure out how to fix it.

  • just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Hit ALT+F2 or F3 to see if you get a console. Make sure your GPU drivers are installed and loading with nvidia-smi. Blacklist the Nouveau driver if necessary.

    • usualsuspect191@lemmy.caOP
      1·
      15 minutes ago

      Command not found and then it lists a bunch of options nvidia-utils-### (there’s a bunch of different ones with different numbers, some ending in -server).

      How would I blacklist the nouveau driver? The driver manager doesn’t seem to have any functionality beyond a big checkmark that says says (lies) that everything is good.

  • anon5621@lemmy.ml
    1·
    2 hours ago

    Load in compatibility mode then

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kelebek333/nvidia-legacy 
sudo apt update 
sudo apt install nvidia-340 xorg-modulepath

    Reboot in normal mode