How to install the graphics card driver in Ubuntu (Linux mint 13)

Linux mint auto-installed drivers are difficult to play videos, and xbmc software is not supported, so hardware cannot decode HD videos.
We recommend that you install the driver provided by the video card manufacturer. Take the nivida driver as an example to describe the installation of the following video card driver. For beginners, laruence Bypass

1. Go to the official website to download the driver
My name is g9300 GE. Find the driver on the nivida official website and download it to The. Run Driver.

2. copy the file to the/directory,
Sudo CP NVIDIA-Linux-x86-310.32.run/
Sudo chmod 751 NVIDIA-Linux-x86-310.32.run
Change the permission of the driver File

3. Then exit the X server mode. This step is very important; otherwise, the installation will fail.

In general, the shell operation we perform under the Linux GUI is not really a shell, it has been "set up" on X Window.

If you want to switch to the pure command character console, the average person will think that switching CTRL + ALT + F1 (or F2-F6 can ). By default, CTRL + ALT + F7 are graphical interfaces (of course, different Linux releases may vary ). In this case, we still haven't exited X server, but we only have a tty command.

If you do not need to load the X Window, select/etc/inittab and change ID: 5: initdefault: ID: 3: initdefault :( 5 is the GUI, 3 is the command line ).

Another method is more appropriate. Switch the command/etc/init directly under the running GUI. d/gestation stop (or/etc/init. d/KDM stop), close the corresponding GUI service.

The third method is simpler. You can directly input init 3 under the simulated shell in X Window (with root permission) to disable X server.
This situation is often used to install the NVIDIA graphics card driver. It is also convenient to exit the X server.

I use CTRL + ALT + F1 to switch to the CLI, and then you need to log on
Enter the account number and password. Note that the password is always incorrect because it seems that the keypad is not available under this command line. If you have a digital password, you 'd better use the numeric key of the big keyboard, I don't know whether the network speed is slow and cannot be used on the keypad below the CLI. After logging on, You must disable the MDM (mint Display Manager) mint display management service.
For Linux mint, the mint Desktop Management Service must be terminated.
Command is sudo/etc/init. d/MdmStop

4. Then directly go to the driver directory/
Sudo./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-310.32.run
When the installation screen appears, click "accept" and click "OK". You may be prompted to uninstall the old driver, select "Uninstall", and proceed to the driver uninstallation process. Some errors may occur, but they will not be affected, continue to install the driver. After installation, restart OK.

One thing to mention here is about the Nouveau driver

NouveauIt is an open source 3D driver developed by a third party for NVIDIA graphics cards and has not been recognized and supported by NVIDIA. Although nouveau gallium3d is far from comparable to the NVIDIA official private driver in terms of Game speed, it makes it easier for Linux to cope with a variety of complex NVIDIA graphics environments, after the system is installed, users can access the desktop and enjoy good display. Therefore, many Linux distributions are integrated with the Nouveau driver by default, which is installed by default when NVIDIA graphics card is used. This is especially true for Enterprise Linux, where almost all Enterprise Linux distributions that support graphical interfaces will generate nouveau revenues. However, for individual desktop users, nouveau in the growth stage is not perfect. Unlike the Enterprise Edition, individual users need some 3D effects in addition to the graphic interface to display normally, nouveau cannot be completed most of the time, but nouveau becomes an obstacle when users install the NVIDIA official private driver, and errors are always reported when Nouveau is not installed.

but the latest NVIDIA. the run driver will force the Nouveau driver to be disabled using the script, however, the NVIDIA driver must be restarted before it can be installed

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