I was getting really annoyed with my slow Firefox and Compiz performance in Ubuntu 8.10. I have a quad core and a 8800GTS! It should be extremely fast. Then I noticed that the nvidia drivers Ubuntu installed automatically were positively ancient! They were in the 172.xx range when 180.29 is out now. Do yourself a favor and update to Nvidia's latest drivers right now.
You'll need to remove the old drivers first:
sudo apt-get remove nvidia*
Then download the new drivers from Nvidia's website and install. Since you need to close your x session to do this, I recommend you ssh into your box from another machine so that you can get a nice terminal to run nvidia's installer (It seems to have some problems if you run it from the console; I got flashing text and other nonsense). Once you've modprobed the new driver, get ready to enjoy the 2x or greater boost in screen redraw speed and true 60fps for your cube if your card is fast enough!
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