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.
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.Load in compatibility mode then
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kelebek333/nvidia-legacy sudo apt update sudo apt install nvidia-340 xorg-modulepathReboot in normal mode
First two steps worked, but then I get errors and it says unable to locate those packages.
