QE not work GL does nvidia 8400gs 512mb

I recently upgrade from kalyway 10.5.2 to 10.5.5 and i thought all was fine. I was wrong i now notice that i have no QE support i have looked over the multiple howtos but have yet to see/try one that works. I notice when i try to play any newer game i installed that it says that my graphics card is not supported, but it is in windows. I did have QE in 10.5.2 b/c i remember doing the test with dashboard and got the ripples. I am not sure if that is any correlation. I also have quit a few... i guess errors on boot up that i can't remember right now but the machine still boots and runs reasonablely well. Any help would be great.:-|