Ubuntu
nvidia-graphics-drivers-96 package

  1. Bug #948053
  2. Comment #87

Comment 87 for bug 948053

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w3bmast3r101 (w3bmast3r101) wrote : Re: nvidia-96 and nvidia-173 uninstallable on Precise

I have been following this thread for about a month and thought I'd offer what I did to get 3d acceleration working. (NOT USING NVIDIA-173) I myself have a: NVIDIA Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5500] (rev a1) and the drivers that were included with the default install were the: Nouveau drivers and they were dog slow.

However, Ubuntu also has the DRI experimental package: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental and that made performance comparable to the Nvidia binary drivers. (For my card; in this one instance.) So if you want to give it a try:

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-nouveau libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental

Then reboot and see how well it works for you.