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. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-173 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/948053 Title: nvidia-96 and nvidia-173 uninstallable on Precise To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nvidia-drivers-ubuntu/+bug/948053/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
