Noted. I want to stay conservative too
On Thu, Feb 17, 2022, 1:40 PM Bill Barry <waba...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 2:58 PM VY <vyau5...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hello all, need some advice on installing Nvidia driver. > > > > I just got a Dell laptop and plan to use Linux Mint on it. > > I saw under "Software Manager" of latest Linux Mint, it has an Nvidia > driver > > of version x.x.047. Nvidia website has version x.x.51. > > I downloaded the latest from Nvidia. > > When trying to run it, it said that I have "X server" running and I need > to > > quite that before > > running installation again. > > > > What is the recommendation? Should I stick with the latest on Software > > Manager? > > Or if I am adventurous enough, I do "sudo init 3", install the latest > > driver and reboot? > > > > Just want to see what folks have done recently. > > > > thanks > > > > -v > > I would vote don't be adventurous with Nvidia drivers unless you > really need something from a new driver or you really have a lot of > time to waste fixing things. > > Bill >
