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[John Harrington <j-fharrington@xxxxxxx>]

The nouveau hardware accelerated 3-d driver works fairly well in
Maverick on my GeForce 4 MX 4000 card.  Googleearth works pretty much as
it did with the proprietary driver, including 3-d buildings, except that
when the view moves close to horizontal and the horizon comes into view,
the photographic view of the earth sometimes suddenly disappears.
Otherwise, the 3-d effect works fine.  Stellarium works at the same
speed as with the proprietary driver, but the sunlight illumination
doesn't appear on the planets (i.e., they appear in shadow from all
sides).  Foobillard billiards simulation game works fine except that
there's an annoying moving shadow pattern on the table top.  I haven't
had any crashes.

I can't turn on desktop effects--I get the message that I need the
proprietary driver.

According to the nouveau website, if you've got an nvidia card with a
nv30 or later chip and want to try the 3-d hardware accelerated driver,
you need nouveau_dri.so driver, which is in the libgl1-mesa-dri-
experimental package in maverick universe.  If you've got a nv20 or
earlier chip, you need nouveau_vieux_dri.so, which seems to have been
removed from the maverick repositories before final release, but I got
it from the xorg-edgers ppa maverick repository.  It's in the libgl1
-mesa-dri package (not the experimental package).  All I did was add the
repository, update the package, shutdown the power and reboot.

In order to determine whether you need the nouveau_dri or the
nouveau_vieux_dri driver, consult the table at:
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/CodeNames

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