Running the Nvidia binary driver (v9625 from experimental), on a laptop with a "NVIDIA Quadro NVS 110M" card I get: jh@gaz:~$ glxinfo | grep renderer OpenGL renderer string: unknown board/PCI/SSE2 without the grep though there is more info that may be of use: OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation OpenGL renderer string: unknown board/PCI/SSE2 OpenGL version string: 2.1.0 NVIDIA 96.25