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.
First two steps worked, but then I get errors and it says unable to locate those packages.
stick with Linux Mint 21.3 . It’s the last version where the xorg-modulepath-fix package is supported. On Mint 22 , this package is missing, and the legacy driver will likely fail due to the newer kernel changes
Alright, I created a new bootable USB with Xfce 21.3 and didn’t have to use compatibility mode this time. Did a fresh install and all the updates and it looks to be working just fine now! It even seems to run a bit faster which is also nice. Thanks for the help, this did the trick!