No hardware acceleration, can be fixed by editing /etc/modules

Bug #1930681 reported by Dmitry Kuteynikov
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Bug Description

I noticed that the hardware acceleration is disabled, despite having a proprietary nvidia driver installed.

I managed to fix it by adding the following lines to /etc/modules:
nvidia
nvidia-drm
nvidia-modeset

as it was suggested in this topic: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=1895521#p1895521

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti] (rev a1)
Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS 5.4.0-73-generic #82-Ubuntu SMP x86_64

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: nvidia-driver-460 460.80-0ubuntu0.20.04.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-73.82-generic 5.4.106
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-73-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.18
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Jun 3 10:13:51 2021
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-09-17 (624 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" - Release amd64 (20190416)
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-460
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-05-25 (373 days ago)

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