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I am a pretty new user for Linux-like systems and I have installed Lubuntu 17.10 on an old desktop machine which has an Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 graphics card. But I have no idea if the graphics card driver installed suits that device or not. How can I determine if I am using the right driver?
I looked for Nvidia’s own drivers for the Nvidia GeForce FX 5500, which came out to be nvidia-173
. Am I supposed to be installing that? I have read that it won’t be available after Ubuntu 14.x?
Earlier I installed Ubuntu 16.04 and it felt miserably slow with GUI operations so I am concerned if my graphics card driver is the proper one for this card.
I run Windows XP on that same machine with no problems related to graphics.
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Have you looked at the info in this thread?
– JakeGould – 2017-12-23T17:09:54.5631Seems like my best bet would be installing Xubuntu 14.04 instead. – Nae – 2017-12-23T21:05:26.160