I am running a fresh installed 32-bit lubuntu on an old desktop machine with Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 graphics card. I have no idea if the graphics card driver is correct or not, how can I get the most out of my graphics card?
user@user-System-Name:~$ sudo lshw -c display *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: NV34 [GeForce FX 5500] vendor: NVIDIA Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0 version: a1 width: 32 bits clock: 66MHz capabilities: pm agp agp-3.0 vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=nouveau latency=64 maxlatency=1 mingnt=5 resources: irq:16 memory:dd000000-ddffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:c0000-dffffI have tried to solve my issue with this answer but I am neither understanding if it fits my situation nor do I have the knowledge to install the proposed package.
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Based on mikehatever's comment:
Nvidia legacy driver 173 is not available in 17.10. The only currently supported Ubuntu release that has it is 14.04. It is supported until April 2019, and if you wish to try it, go with Xubuntu 14.04.1. Other than that, you probably can't do much more with 14 years old hardware.
