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thetechdad

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Registered: 2025-08-18

Posts: 1

linux 6.16.1 with nvidia causes wayland/hyprland instability

I recently updated my system via 'sudo pacman -Syu' and after reboot, hyprland (or other wayland DEs such as gnome) are very slow and sluggish. CPU usage is also high. I checked nvidia-smi and it seems driver is loaded. I did reinstall nvidia drivers again according to wiki to no avail. I wonder if this was an issue with the upstream packages?

here is my pacman log

[2025-08-18T13:30:28-0600] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2025-08-18T13:30:28-0600] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2025-08-18T13:30:29-0600] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2025-08-18T13:31:19-0600] [ALPM] running '60-mkinitcpio-remove.hook'...
[2025-08-18T13:31:20-0600] [ALPM] transaction started
[2025-08-18T13:31:20-0600] [ALPM] upgraded libgcrypt (1.11.1-1 -> 1.11.2-1)
[2025-08-18T13:31:20-0600] [ALPM] upgraded ca-certificates-mozilla (3.114-1 -> 3.115-1)
[2025-08-18T13:31:20-0600] [ALPM] upgraded ell (0.78-1 -> 0.79-1)
[2025-08-18T13:31:20-0600] [ALPM] upgraded fastfetch (2.49.0-1 -> 2.50.2-1)
[2025-08-18T13:31:20-0600] [ALPM] upgraded glib2 (2.84.3-1 -> 2.84.4-2)
[2025-08-18T13:31:20-0600] [ALPM] upgraded hwdata (0.397-1 -> 0.398-1)
[2025-08-18T13:31:20-0600] [ALPM] upgraded hyprutils (0.8.2-1 -> 0.8.3-1)
[2025-08-18T13:31:20-0600] [ALPM] upgraded lib32-libelf (0.193-1 -> 0.193-4)
[2025-08-18T13:31:20-0600] [ALPM] upgraded libinput (1.28.1-1 -> 1.29.0-1)
[2025-08-18T13:31:20-0600] [ALPM] upgraded librsvg (2:2.60.0-2 -> 2:2.61.0-1)
[2025-08-18T13:31:20-0600] [ALPM] upgraded libxnvctrl (575.64.05-1 -> 580.76.05-1)
[2025-08-18T13:31:21-0600] [ALPM] upgraded linux (6.16.arch2-1 -> 6.16.1.arch1-1)
[2025-08-18T13:31:21-0600] [ALPM] upgraded nss (3.114-1 -> 3.115-1)
[2025-08-18T13:31:22-0600] [ALPM] upgraded nvidia-utils (580.76.05-3 -> 580.76.05-4)
[2025-08-18T13:31:23-0600] [ALPM] upgraded nvidia (580.76.05-3 -> 580.76.05-4)
[2025-08-18T13:31:23-0600] [ALPM] upgraded nvidia-settings (575.64.05-1 -> 580.76.05-1)
[2025-08-18T13:31:23-0600] [ALPM] upgraded opencl-nvidia (580.76.05-3 -> 580.76.05-4)
[2025-08-18T13:31:23-0600] [ALPM] upgraded python (3.13.6-1 -> 3.13.7-1)
[2025-08-18T13:31:23-0600] [ALPM] upgraded python-fastjsonschema (2.21.1-1 -> 2.21.2-1)
[2025-08-18T13:31:23-0600] [ALPM] upgraded python-pbs-installer (2025.07.23-1 -> 2025.08.14-1)
[2025-08-18T13:31:23-0600] [ALPM] upgraded python-pkginfo (1.12.0-1 -> 1.12.1.2-1)
[2025-08-18T13:31:24-0600] [ALPM] upgraded python-rpds-py (0.22.3-1 -> 0.27.0-1)
[2025-08-18T13:31:24-0600] [ALPM] upgraded xf86-video-amdgpu (23.0.0-2 -> 25.0.0-1)
[2025-08-18T13:31:24-0600] [ALPM] transaction completed

IT-ess

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Registered: 2025-01-05

Posts: 2

Re: linux 6.16.1 with nvidia causes wayland/hyprland instability

I'm facing similar issues, have you found any solution since ?