Long time Xorg and NVIDIA user, I tested Wayland for the first time ever yesterday, to check if it could be a replacement. I run i3 on Xorg, so the equivalent on Wayland would be sway but that does not work with NVIDIA as explained by this amusing trolling option: [sway/main.c:99] Proprietary Nvidia drivers are NOT supported. Use Nouveau. To launch sway anyway, launch with --my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia and DO NOT report issues So I tested GNOME and Plasma which supposedly support NVIDIA drivers. First, I had to disable Optimus in my laptop BIOS (not all laptop have this option) because Wayland+NVIDIA binary driver is a no go with Optimus: it will hard lock the machine and even crash the kernel. With Optimus disabled, I could have GNOME running great via the command-line (SDDM gave me trouble, which I did not investigate, could be my setup): XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland dbus-run-session gnome-session I did not spend a lot of time testing, but Multi-monitor worked fine. Intellij IDEA started in Xwayland but with wrong scaling and huge fonts (I'm using a 4K monitor with 200% scaling). This can probably be fixed but did not investigate. Firefox started with Wayland support crashed on start, until I started in safe mode (with WebRender disabled). Did not spend a lot of time in it but about:support sometimes crashed. I could start Plasma (KWIN_DRM_USE_EGL_STREAMS=1 dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland) but it had many issues so did not spend a long time testing here. In the end, I got back quick to my perfectly working and trusty Xorg and will revisit Wayland in 2 years. The only thing Wayland has for it as far as I'm concerned is per monitor dpi and scaling, a feature that will unfortunately never make it to Xorg. On 10/26/20 10:27 AM, Bjoern Voigt wrote:
Markus Koßmann wrote:
You should be able choose between KDE(X11) and KDE(Wayland) on the displaymanagers login screen. My displaymanager (SDDM) currently shows all Wayland sessions in gray. I have a Nvidia card with the proprietary driver packages from the openSUSE repository (download.nvidia.com/opensuse). I remember that I had to set a kernel modesetting option in Grub (|nvidia-drm.modeset=1|), but anyway Wayland/Nvidia setup did not work reliable on my box last time.
Here I see "The drivers provided through the nvidia suse repository (download.nvidia.com/opensuse) are not currently compatible with Wayland display protocol (at 08-2020)." (source https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_troubleshooting#Wayland_versus_nvidia_pro...)
Does anyone use Wayland/Nvidia successfully on TW? What is the setup?
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