Nvidia driver 390 for thinkpad T430 on latest mint

[vital vale]

How would I install them I tried some patched drivers and its stuck on a linux mint logo untill I go into safe mode and purge them please help

[wanton oxide]

I think you would probably be better off using the nouveau drivers. NVIDIA Driver 390 is unsupported

[short schooner]

@vital vale Boot a live USB stick, boot Linux Mint and backup everything you had on a new disk or to the Cloud, then reinstall Mint without the proprietary drivers, Unfortunately those drivers are no longer supported and in fact you only have two options, use Mint or another distro keeping the open source new drivers that are pre-installed or reinstall Windows

[vital vale]

When I bought the t430 the seller had the intel only on in the bios thats why none of my attempts worked

I put it on Nvidia only and I think its gonna work now

[short schooner]

@vital vale I am sorry to tell you that unfortunately it will not be like that, because that Nvidia is not supported anymore and every time you reinstall the driver, Mint will break because the driver is not patched for the new kernels, But even if it has an integrated Intel GPU you should still be able to use it well with excellent performance on your PC, even if Nvidia doesn't push it to the max with the open drivers.

Next time if I can advise you, get any graphics card as long as it is not nvidia

[vital vale]

how do I install the open source driver?

Could I downgrade my kernal?

[short schooner]

They are installed by default every time I install a distro

[short schooner]

Unfortunately not, especially if the system crashes and does not boot, but you can boot a live USB and from there you can recover all the files

[vital vale]

Im on a trip and I did not bring my usb I guess im gonna have to buy one

any distros you recommend that will work with my gpu?

[short schooner]

Yes, it's convenient for you

[short schooner]

Yes your card will work on any distro

[vital vale]

I meant natively with the 390 driver

[short schooner]

No sorry, they are no longer supported by any distro and not even by Nvidia

Only from Windows

[vital vale]

Is there anyway I could get a fresh install of mint and roll back the kernal

[short schooner]

I don't know, you could install an old kernel on new versions of Mint but also the Nvidia driver would have to be patched and it's a mess

[vital vale]

This is why i hear people hating on nvidia huh

[short schooner]

Yes, same to me

@vital vale I had a video card for the 340, after 6 months I gave up and bought a new PC, I gave the old one to my best friend with Windows on

[short schooner]

question, does your CPU not have an integrated Intel GPU

[vital vale]

it does

[short schooner]

You can use that together with Nvidia with open source drivers

And you won't have any problems