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nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 package

  1. Bug #370249
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 370249

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totzo (tim) wrote : Re: No Nvidia direct rendering unless root user

Same thing here, karmic with 185.18.36 and I thought it was an issue with alpha kernels- obviously not:

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)

sudo glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes