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zw963

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Registered: 2018-06-18

Posts: 213

Test new Nvidia 4.70 driver if work correctly in wayland session.

Because i see the new nvidia 4.70 driver is available on archlinuxcn source, so i installed it.

 ╰─ $ pacman -Ss nvidia |grep 470
archlinuxcn/lib32-nvidia-utils-beta 470.42.01-1
archlinuxcn/lib32-opencl-nvidia-beta 470.42.01-1
archlinuxcn/nvidia-beta-dkms 470.42.01-2 [installed]
archlinuxcn/nvidia-settings-beta 470.42.01-1
archlinuxcn/nvidia-utils-beta 470.42.01-1 [installed]
archlinuxcn/opencl-nvidia-beta 470.42.01-1

And i set nvidia kernel options in REFind like this:

 options  "root=LABEL=ArchLinux rw nvidia-drm.modeset=1"

So, is there a way to prove current Wayland sesssion is working with nvidia driver, and use it correctly?

Thank you.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,225

Re: Test new Nvidia 4.70 driver if work correctly in wayland session.

What "current Wayland session" ? There's no "Wayland" like there's a "Xorg" this depends on what you are actually trying to use, and as of the current state you still can only use EGLStreams implementations like GNOME and KDE.

The big new thing that the driver allows is accelerated Xwayland which however also currently mandates xorg-xwayland-git for a not yet released patch. If these conditions are true you should be able to start one of these two in wayland mode, and also run Xwayland applications i.e. games/Steam games.

Last edited by V1del (2021-07-02 13:43:43)