Originally Posted by TobiSGD
should give you an answer.
Thanks, TobiSGD! That did the trick and it shows I am still using the nvidia drivers,
me@thebar:~$ glxinfo|grep render
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GT 520/PCIe/SSE2
so I don't know why others are having troubles with theirs after the xorg upgrade the other day.