1. Open-Source Nouveau Drivers: At the time of this writing, the open-source Nouveau drivers support only the basic graphics features like 2D/3D accelerations, video decoding accelerations, and so on. It does not support many of the advanced features that the NVIDIA GPUs are capable of. For example, the open-source Nouveau drivers have no CUDA support. So, if you want to run the AI (Artificial Intelligence) codes on your NVIDIA GPUs, there are no currently other options than using the official NVIDIA drivers on Linux.
2. Official NVIDIA Drivers: The official NVIDIA drivers support all the features of the NVIDIA GPUs (including CUDA for AI projects). The official NVIDIA drivers are faster and perform better than the open-source Nouveau drivers on Linux at the time of this writing. So, the official NVIDIA drivers are preferred if you own an NVIDIA GPU.
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At the time of this writing, the nvidia-driver-525 is the latest version of the official NVIDIA drivers that you can install on Linux Mint 21. You can see that this version of official NVIDIA drivers is marked as recommended.
A list of all the available official NVIDIA driver versions should be displayed. At the time of this writing, the official NVIDIA driver version 525 (nvidia-driver-525 package) is the latest as marked in the following screenshot:
You should see that the nvidia kernel modules are loaded instead of the nouveau kernel modules as shown in the following screenshot. This means that the official NVIDIA drivers are working just fine on Linux Mint 21.
As you can see, the NVIDIA X Server Settings app is running just fine and it shows up all the information about our NVIDIA GPU correctly. So, the official NVIDIA drivers are working just fine on Linux Mint 21.
The third method is to run the nvidia-smi command from the command line and see if it prints the usage information about your NVIDIA GPU. If the official NVIDIA drivers are working, the command should print the NVIDIA GPU usage information correctly.
To see how to completely uninstall the official NVIDIA drivers and prepare the Linux Mint 21 to clean install the official NVIDIA drivers, read the article on How to Clean Install the NVIDIA Drivers on Linux Mint 21.
We showed you how to check whether you have the NVIDIA GPU installed on your computer/laptop from Linux Mint 21 operating system. We also showed you how to install the official NVIDIA drivers on Linux Mint 21 using the Driver Manager app graphically and from the terminal or command line. We also showed you the three methods of checking if the official NVIDIA drivers are working correctly on Linux Mint 21 as well. Finally, we showed you how to switch back to the open-source Nouveau drivers if the official NVIDIA drivers are causing you any problems.
Though you do not actually have to install or use Compiz, both OpenOffice.org and Compiz have the same demanding requirements of your video drivers and X server setup. Check Compiz.org for tips on setting up your system. On my main computer, which can't run Compiz because of its low-power onboard video card, I suffered unmapped textures (white objects) and application crashes. The videos were captured on a Dell Latitude D820 with nVidia G72M (GeForce Go7400) and 256MB video memory using the nVidia 169.09 binary driver.
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