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My GPU is an old one (FX 5500), but it supports 3D acceleration with the NVIDIA driver. There is experimental acceleration support in the open source drivers as far as I know, and I would like to try it out on Natty. What are my options?

I know about X Updates PPA by the Ubuntu-X team, and it worked with the binary blob for me. Can it provide open-source 3D acceleration?

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It's easy, just install libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental package which provides experimental 3d support for nouveau driver.

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  • Official repo or PPA?
    – Oxwivi
    Sep 3, 2011 at 19:03
  • Offical repositories. Sep 3, 2011 at 19:10
  • Does it work? :|
    – RobinJ
    Sep 3, 2011 at 20:54
  • @RobinJ, I had upgraded to Oneiric. Will reinstall Natty and inform you. Though if it doesn't work for me, it'd be probably because of my really old hardware - just so you know.
    – Oxwivi
    Sep 4, 2011 at 8:50
  • @RobinJ, installed on a persistent live USB. Works.
    – Oxwivi
    Sep 5, 2011 at 10:15

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