Stuff broke

[Ronbot123]

When I install NVIDIA driver from repos it always just breaks my system every time
Pls help

 

[KGIII]

I removed the vulgarity from the thread's title.

Frustration is understood, but we have children who visit and we'd like to keep it that way.

Thanks for understanding.

 

[wizardfromoz]

...but we have children who visit...

The OP is 13, and used bad language in his other thread, now edited.

A third strike and he will be taking a month's holiday.

Chris Turner
wizardfromoz

 

[GatorsFan]

You might need to install nvidia-detect which is available through Synaptic Package Manager
Once installed open a terminal and run

nvidia-detect

This will tell you which Nvidia card you have and list which drivers are supported with it - below is the output for my old Dell - and as you can see I have a NVS5200M that the last Nvidia drivers available are the 390 Legacy drivers which are no longer used - So I just use the default Nouveau drivers and all is good

user@debian:~$ nvidia-detect
Detected NVIDIA GPUs:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GF108GLM [NVS 5200M] [10de:0dfc] (rev a1)

Checking card: NVIDIA Corporation GF108GLM [NVS 5200M] (rev a1)
Your card is only supported by the 390 legacy drivers series, which is only available up to bullseye.

 

[CaffeineAddict]

When I install NVIDIA driver from repos

From which repos?

 

[bob466]

With Linux Mint Cinnamon it's a simple matter to run the Driver Manager for the NVIDIA driver and the Driver is updated by the Software Manager.

 

[MikeWalsh]

Heh. Kinda begs the question, doesn't it.......what on earth is a 13-yr old doing messing around with Kali in the first place?

Eee. The mind boggles....


Mike.