This-get drivers Not quite sure what you are referring to. Till Mint 13 there was jockey whose job it was to install proprietary drivers. Install Java Plugin Firefox Portable Deutsch. Mint 14 came without jockey, because Ubuntu had dropped it. Mint 15 introduced a revamped jockey under the name of Driver Manager. Driver Manager is present in Mint 16 as well.

I downloaded ubuntu 10.4 from www.ubuntu.com just today. It was a torrent. I used wubi.exe to install ubuntu in the windows environment.everything went well. Then i rebooted and UBUNTU loaded with 4-5 red dots below. THEN THE PROBLEM STARTED WHEN I CAME UP TO A PURPLE AURORA. Download the latest drivers for your NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT to keep your Computer up-to-date.

- And at least for me it has done its job perfectly and given me the NVidia driver which I wanted and needed: NVIDIA 319.32. - But of course your experiences may be different from mine. Cheers, Karl. Hello, ecoalex.

I have not found anything which suggests that your CPU AMD Athlon 64 x2 is problematic. Yet, your graphics card NVidia Geforce 6100 n405 seems to be an old model, which requires the installation of a proprietary NVidia legacy driver. The usual nvidia-current driver is not for you. Scanning the Ubuntu software repositories a bit - where Linux Mint gets its hardware drivers as well - suggests there is the driver package named nvidia-173_173.14.39.

This should be the current legacy driver which supports your NVidia Geforce 6100 n405 as well Panchatantra Stories In English Free Download Pdf. . At least the genuine NVidia webpage says so: Cf..

Note: drivers are available for Linux x86 (32-bit) and for Linux x64 (64-bit). How to get it: • In case you cannot use the GUI currently, you should reboot. You will have to go into the Grub menu and add the parameter 'nomodeset'. To find out how to do so. (Even though the explanation is about Ubuntu. The steps are the same for Linux Mint.) Booting with the 'nomodeset' argument should give you a reduced GUI, reduced in screen resolution and available colours, but usable. • Provided you can use the GUI, launch Driver Manager.

• Driver Manager may take quite a while to launch and display its list. • Driver Manager should detect that you are using the open source driver nouveau. It should also list the available proprietary NVidia drivers. Ideally, the NVidia driver 173.14.39 will already be marked as recommended. • Confirm to install the NVidia driver 173.14.39 driver. • Driver Manager will start downloading the software and install it.

This can take a long time. - 5 to 10 min.

It might be faster, but it need not. • Once Driver Manager has finished its job, you have to reboot your machine. - This time no fiddling around with 'nomodeset' should be needed. If you are lucky the machine will come up, present the MDM logon screen and after logging on you will be running Cinnamon without any further hassle.

Would be a good idea if you posted another 'inxi -Fx' report. In case anything is unclear, do not hesitate to ask. - Replacing the open source driver nouveau with the right proprietary NVidia driver is always a challenge, even if you have done so a dozen times before. You only know all is fine when the GUI is displayed without problems after the reboot and when 'inxi -Fx' confirms you are using the right driver now. Cheers, Karl.

Hello, ecoalex. This is not the result that I had hoped for. As the Driver Manager screenshot illustrates, Driver Manager suggests to use NVidia driver v304.88. The NVidia webpage does not list GeForce 6100 as a card supported by this driver. Nonetheless there is a small chance that Driver Manager is right. At least it is worth a try. NVidia v304.88 is the driver version which I used for GeForce 8500 GT (listed as supported by the driver), before the driver was updated to v319.32.

So maybe trying to uninstall NVidia 173.14.37 and then replace it by NVidia 304.88 will solve the problem. Cheers, Karl. Hello, ecoalex. I am terribly sorry for another failure. Seems as if + although Driver Manager suggests NVidia 304.88 as the recommended driver + although the Nvidia webpage confirms NVidia 173.14.39 is the appropriate driver both drivers are not the right ones for your machine.

Might be the combination of the CPU AMD Athlon x64 x2 plus the NVidia GeForce 6100 n405 GPU that causes the problem. Yet, so far I have not found any article or forum thread that confirms so. If understand you right, switching to NVidia 304.88 has made the graphical display fail completely. No GUI, not even a distorted GUI. So even using the open source driver nouveau as better than this. I will have to do some more research in order to come up with a solution - hopefully a solution.

Hello, ecoalex. Frankly, speaking, what we are doing here seems to be a waste of time. The facts seem to suggest that the combination of CPU 'AMD Athlon 64 x2' and GPU 'NVidia GeForce 6100 n405' may be a no-go on more recent Mint releases.

The articles / forum threads that I could find do not mention this combination in any particular way. The statements which NVidia driver is appropriate are contradictory: NVidia 173.14.39 vs. NVidia 304.88. - Yet, neither of them has made you happy so far. No-one using the combination of CPU 'AMD Athlon 64 x2' and GPU 'NVidia GeForce 6100 n405' succeffully on a recent Mint release has chimed in. The most recent Phoronix test where 'AMD Athlon 64 x2' and GPU 'NVidia GeForce 6100 n405' were used was done on Ubuntu 11.04, definitely too old in order to draw any conclusions for recent Ubuntu/Mint releases. So if I were you what I would do is exactly this: • Re-install the OS, i.e Mint 16, I assume, sticking with the nouveau driver for the moment.

• Test various Mint / Ubuntu releases from a live medium (live USB / live DVD) in order to find out whether the GUI desktop looks all right and is fully functional. To be honest, of course, I would try OpenSuse e.g. • Only after having found a Mint/Ubuntu release the live desktop of which is fully functional on 'AMD Athlon 64 x2' + 'NVidia GeForce 6100 n405', I would run the risk of re-installing exactly this release on the harddisk.

Kind regards, Karl. Karl Thank You for your time and thoughtful consideration. It is odd that a HP machine from 2003 would load the Cinnamon version, yet a 2008 ASUS didn't have the graphics driver available.The HP Driver Manager couldn't even list any 'proprietary' drivers, yet the dern thing works, slow, but it does work. For a hoot I'm posting the Terminal view of the HP machine: I will reinstall the nouveau driver as per your instructions.The Mate 16 version does work well. I will keep this thread for future reference. Hello, ecoalex. Hm, though you marked this thread as [Solved] to be honest the status is rather [Cancelled] or [Postponed] or [Failed], because the root cause has not been solved.

The Asus notebook is currently not running Mint 16 Cinnamon and it is not even displaying a functional GUI any longer. I am sorry I sent you round in circles, installing two different proprietary NVidia drivers, both of which made things worse and not better. As you say that Mint 16 Mate edition runs fine, on the Asus notebook I assume, my recommendation would be sticking with Mint Mate 16 for the moment or maybe even as a final solution. Of course, you decide. Your machine, your time and effort, your decision. I am not really too amazed that the older HP machine runs fine, though slowly.

Intel graphics cards are pretty likely to co-operate out of the box, without the need to find the appropriate proprietary driver. This changes on brand new machines, where there are 2 graphics cards, an internal Intel chip and a second NVidia graphics card. This is where enters the stage. Cheers, Karl. I do miss my old friend Mint 11, a Gnome edition. Well, Gnome 2 has been discontinued by and replaced by Gnome 3. So Linux Mint 13 to 16 with MATE should be as close to the old Gnome 2 desktop as one can be today.

(With the end of Gnome 2 I switched to and. I liked Cinnamon very much from the start, and now that the is available for xfce, I like xfce almost as much as Cinnamon.

- Purely a matter of personal taste. And there is no point in arguing about personal taste.

) Happy New Year, Karl. Frankly, speaking, what we are doing here seems to be a waste of time. The facts seem to suggest that the combination of CPU 'AMD Athlon 64 x2' and GPU 'NVidia GeForce 6100 n405' may be a no-go on more recent Mint releases. The articles / forum threads that I could find do not mention this combination in any particular way. The statements which NVidia driver is appropriate are contradictory: NVidia 173.14.39 vs. NVidia 304.88.

- Yet, neither of them has made you happy so far. No-one using the combination of CPU 'AMD Athlon 64 x2' and GPU 'NVidia GeForce 6100 n405' succeffully on a recent Mint release has chimed in. The most recent Phoronix test where 'AMD Athlon 64 x2' and GPU 'NVidia GeForce 6100 n405' were used was done on Ubuntu 11.04, definitely too old in order to draw any conclusions for recent Ubuntu/Mint releases. I wish I had known that 4 hours ago.

I've got an acer aspire 1520 that worked OK on min14 with the nouveau or the nvidia-173 but I used nouveau because suspend/resume worked with that. Thought Id try mint 16 cinnamon, but to absolutely no avail. Noveau goes 'high CPU' and the while machine doesn't respond and is unusable, and there is sometimes screen corruption and nvidia-173 just segfaults. Only thing that sorta worked was to blacklist Nouveau. And now the mouse has stopped working.is it worth trying mint 15?

Or just back to 14. I have to say this is pretty disappointing.

NVidia 6150 GPU onboard chipset Purpose of this post is to assist in activating proprietary driver for onboard 6150 DVI connection to LCD with HDMI connect. Maverick 10.10 Linux version 2.6.35-28-generic NVIDIA GLX Module 260.19.06 The nouveau driver installed by default recognizes LCD monitors connected by DVI/HDMI. This default driver cannot fully utilize the 3D potential of NVIDIA graphics chips or provide 2D acceleration for newer cards.

The default resolution choices tend to be below the capabilities of monitor/tv and chipset. If you are considering the installation of the proprietary drivers found under System, Administration, Additional Drivers some preliminary work will ease the process. Without some changes to the xorg.conf file many people have experienced over-scan issues and blank or black screen on reboot post driver install. Before choosing install look in Log File Viewer under System Administration for Xorg log.

The Nouveau driver logs some useful information about your graphics system. Look for chipset info: 'NVIDIA NV4e' and the lines after 'Supported standard timings'. Example: 17.661] (II) NOUVEAU(0): #0: hsize: 1280 vsize 1024 refresh: 60 vid: 32897 17.661] (II) NOUVEAU(0): #1: hsize: 1360 vsize 765 refresh: 60 vid: 49291 You can read more about EDID. The hsize and vsize should be close to resolutions supported by your monitor. Verify these by looking in the manual for the monitor or online at manufacturers website.

The supported resolutions have to be manually added to xorg.conf. Look for the xorg.conf file under /etc/X11/xorg.conf. You can add, if not there or edit, by opening the terminal application found under accessories and typing $ sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf Add or edit the Screen section of xorg.conf.

This example applies to 720p 32' widescreen lcd tv. Section 'Screen' Identifier 'Default Screen' DefaultDepth 24 Option 'UseDisplayDevice' 'DFP' Subsection 'Display' Modes '1360x768' '1280x720' '720x480' EndSubSection EndSection Substitute the display Modes shown above for the resolutions supported by your LCD monitor. The first mode '1360x768' will be the default read by nVidia driver upon installation. The option ' 'DFP' will select the dvi connected LCD. This should prevent the black screen upon reboot. After you've saved the file, activate the driver.

Additional information for nVidia with XOrg commands.