direct rendering only as root

[seanbarman]

I have the latest nvidia driver installed 3d works and compiz but its a bit choppy.
I noticed that direct rending is only available as root or failsafe

I have checked file permissions of nvidia files ok

checked etc/group file I am on video group. ok

tried different drivers and envy direct rendering only for root or failsafe

not sure what to do next if i run games as root rendering is really smooth but as a normal user its bad, frame rates seem ok but its choppy.

Thanks for any help

here's my xorg

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder57) Thu Jul 17 18:39:19 PDT 2008

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 30.0 - 110.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 150.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

[wswartzendruber]

Adding this might help:

Section "DRI"
    Mode 0666
EndSection

[seanbarman]

Adding this might help:

Section "DRI"
    Mode 0666
EndSection

Hi thanks but it's solved now, I'm not sure how but I manually installed the nvidia driver from the website and it seemed to solve my problems,
I think the install process cleaned up some file permission issues.

Thanks again