3D Nvidia Video Card Driver
No Nvidia Video cards have 3D acceleration enabled automatically with Ubuntu, because the manufacturer does not release open source drivers. However, it is possible to activate 3D acceleration. The process depends on which type of video card you have.
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If you have an older TNT, TNT2, TNT Ultra, GeForce1 or GeForce2 card, install the nvidia-glx-legacy and nvidia-settings packages from the Restricted repository (see Chapter 2, Adding, Removing and Updating Applications).
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Alternatively, if you have a newer card, install the nvidia-glx package from the Restricted repository (see Chapter 2, Adding, Removing and Updating Applications).
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To enable the new driver, run the following command in a terminal:
sudo nvidia-glx-config enable
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You may adjust the settings of the new drivers by running the application nvidia-settings (see the section called "Start a Program Manually"). If you wish, add a menu entry for this program (see the section called "Menu Editing").
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