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0 pointsmcjiggerlog2y ago0 comments

Fine for some, but for others there are still show-stoppers. I have a laptop with an Nvidia card and my latest attempt to use Wayland, on Fedora 38, didn't last very long at all before being forced to retreat to xorg by the issues.

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soniczentropy2y ago

This has been my every experience with Wayland + Nvidia thus far. Tried Tumbleweed and Fedora both, nothing but display bugs as far as the eye can see.

Lets not even talk about trying to use Wayland in a VM desktop -- Even Firefox/Chrome don't render properly.

kaba02y ago

Does your card have proper DRM support (the linux subsystem for managing video buffers)? That’s what wayland builds upon (instead of patching the xorg binary with some proprietary extension).

indolering2y ago

WTF? I thought NVIDIA had adopted an open-source core? Is this seriously something outsiders can't fix?

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rickstanley2y ago

Yeah, hybrid laptops with Nvidia is still a no no. Currently I have setup: Arch (EndeavourOS) + KDE Plasma + Xorg, works with minor issues, with a Rog Zephyrus G15, with minor issues; it was/is enough to replace Windows entirely.

I'll try Wayland again this next semester, see if anything has changed.

yoyohello132y ago

Unfortunately, there is not much Wayland devs can do about Nvidia drivers.

But RHEL didn't even set a date for removing Xorg support so it will probably stick around for a long while.

ranger_danger2y ago

An employee in the comments earlier said the next release (RHEL10) will remove it, but that won't be for another 10 years.

aforwardslash2y ago

Given the status of "certified drivers" in Wayland due to their closed-source nature, either RedHat is giving up their graphic workstation business, or removing xorg won't happen any release soon.

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indolering2y ago

RHEL 9 will be supported for ~10 years, but RHEL is scheduled to come out in ~3 years. Fedora will probably still support it and I would bet some of the RHEL rebuilds will too.

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soniczentropy2y ago

This has been my every experience with Wayland + Nvidia thus far. Tried Tumbleweed and Fedora both, nothing but display bugs as far as the eye can see.

Lets not even talk about trying to use Wayland in a VM desktop -- Even Firefox/Chrome don't render properly.

kaba02y ago

Does your card have proper DRM support (the linux subsystem for managing video buffers)? That’s what wayland builds upon (instead of patching the xorg binary with some proprietary extension).

indolering2y ago

WTF? I thought NVIDIA had adopted an open-source core? Is this seriously something outsiders can't fix?

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rickstanley2y ago

I'll try Wayland again this next semester, see if anything has changed.

yoyohello132y ago

Unfortunately, there is not much Wayland devs can do about Nvidia drivers.

But RHEL didn't even set a date for removing Xorg support so it will probably stick around for a long while.

ranger_danger2y ago

An employee in the comments earlier said the next release (RHEL10) will remove it, but that won't be for another 10 years.

aforwardslash2y ago

Given the status of "certified drivers" in Wayland due to their closed-source nature, either RedHat is giving up their graphic workstation business, or removing xorg won't happen any release soon.

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indolering2y ago

RHEL 9 will be supported for ~10 years, but RHEL is scheduled to come out in ~3 years. Fedora will probably still support it and I would bet some of the RHEL rebuilds will too.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse