Honestly, just use the proprietary driver. Especially with Nvidia cards. Now your card is nice and hold but fortunately Nvidia keep their GPUs supported for a very long time. Start with these commands from the terminal:
Once that is done, run:
The latest driver that your machine can use is the 304 series. If you can see the 304 driver and are sure its the right one then you can just run:
which may need to be written as
. Reboot and tell us how it went.
Code:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install linux-source sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic sudo apt-get install linux-image
Code:
jockey-text --list
Code:
jockey-text -e <appropriate driver>
Code:
jockey-text -e xorg:<appropriate driver's name>
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