After installed Mint on my machine (Asus N56JN - Core i5 + 840M), I got stucked with the video again ... no video driver from nvidia, no shortcust for display brightness :(
I was able to get shortcuts working by well known trick in grub config, just changed the /etc/default/grub:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_osi="
Next step was to enable Nvidia driver. For some reason, I was not able to see the proproetary driver in Driver Manager. Here it is:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
After that, I was able to active Nvidmia driver. I am not gamer and I do not need Nvidia card working at all. So I just need to disable it. The simplest way to do so is by using nvidia-prime. So:
sudo apt-get install nvidia-prime nvidia-settings
Run Nvidia settings and disable the 840M:
That's it :)
I was able to get shortcuts working by well known trick in grub config, just changed the /etc/default/grub:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_osi="
Next step was to enable Nvidia driver. For some reason, I was not able to see the proproetary driver in Driver Manager. Here it is:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
After that, I was able to active Nvidmia driver. I am not gamer and I do not need Nvidia card working at all. So I just need to disable it. The simplest way to do so is by using nvidia-prime. So:
sudo apt-get install nvidia-prime nvidia-settings
Run Nvidia settings and disable the 840M:
That's it :)
