Quoting: coryrj19951Ok, I got mint installed with the proprietary drivers, through the PPA. I still have one question though, do the open source drivers support the EVGA GTX 970?

Quoting: Avehicle7887The open source drivers can only handle the 900 series in software mode. More about it here: http://www.fudzilla.com/news/graphics/37544-nvidia-is-as-open-source-friendly-as-a-great-white-shark

Quoting: Linkit is about as open source friendly as an Apple fanboy who has been queuing for two months for the latest pointless tool he cant use.

Quoting: TheBoss

Quoting: oldrocker99I've always had nothing but success installing the drivers from this PPA:
 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
apt-cache search "NVIDIA binary driver"

And then install whichever driver you wish. It's always worked for me. If you do install the driver from nVidia, make sure you have dkms installed, so you can safely update the kernel without having to reinstall the driver.

That PPA doesn't have the newest drivers immediately, nor, of course, the beta drivers, but they aren't that far behind either, and when a new driver comes out, a simple apt-get upgrade command will do the trick.

No, no no. Don't use that PPA.

Use the official PPA https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubun/ppa