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nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 package

  1. Bug #370249
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Comment 0 for bug 370249

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David Clayton (dcstar) wrote : No Nvidia direct rendering unless root user

The permissions of the /dev/nvidia files cause errors when processes are launched with non-root privileges on my 64-bit 9.04 desktop system.

In my case I get Direct Rendering errors when launching a XP VM inside VMware Server, but running glxinfo or glxgears without sudo shows the error:

NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidiactl (Permission denied).

I have found many other posts with the same issue, and here is my current workaround since reinstalling the 180 driver package did not fix it:

gksudo gedit /etc/rc.local

Add the following before "exit 0":

chmod 666 /dev/nvidia* &

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: vmmon nvidia
Package: nvidia-glx-180 180.44-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.28-11-generic (buildd@crested) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:58:03 UTC 2009
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-180
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64