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.

  • nyan@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    How would I blacklist the nouveau driver?

    Create a file in /etc/modprobe.d/ containing the text blacklist nouveau (worked for me on Gentoo and for a friend on Ubuntu) or add a kernel parameter module_blacklist=nouveau to your bootloader. However, if you don’t have the correct proprietary driver, that won’t help.

    • usualsuspect191@lemmy.caOP
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      12 hours ago

      I ended up installing an older version of mint as suggested by another comment and it seems to be working just fine now. Guess there’s a limit to how backwards-compatible the newest version is.