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nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 package

  1. Bug #370249
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 370249

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

No good, I installed the nvidia-180-kernel-source_185.18.14-0ubuntu1~xup~1~jaunty_amd64.deb, nvidia-180-libvdpau_185.18.14-0ubuntu1~xup~1~jaunty_amd64.deb & nvidia-glx-180_185.18.14-0ubuntu1~xup~1~jaunty_amd64.deb packages, did a reboot and (user) glxinfo says:

dc@dc-master:~$ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidiactl (Permission denied).
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: No (If you want to find out why, try setting LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose)

Also:

dc@dc-master:/dev$ ls -al nv*
crw-rw---- 1 root video 195, 0 2009-06-27 15:19 nvidia0
crw-rw---- 1 root video 195, 255 2009-06-27 15:19 nvidiactl