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 -- No Nvidia direct rendering unless root user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370249 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs