Interesting this post published in the forum linuxmint (in English) which I bring here humbly translated for users of LMDE that they use cards NVidia.
New cards.
For new models listed in this url:
$ sudo aptitude install nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-glx build-essential nvidia-settings nvidia-xconfig
Old Cards.
For older models listed in this url.
$ sudo aptitude install nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-dkms nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx build-essential nvidia-settings nvidia-xconfig
More old cards.
For models listed in this url.
$ sudo aptitude install nvidia-kernel-legacy-96xx-dkms nvidia-glx-legacy-96xx build-essential nvidia-settings nvidia-xconfig
To remove.
It is recommended to remove the following packages:
apt remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-nouveau libdrm-nouveau1a
Or blacklist them:
sudo echo blacklist nouveau > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf