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elpotetos

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Registered: 2025-10-27

Posts: 2

Compatibility issues with nvidia-open and GBM/EGL

Hello there,

## Original situation
I couldn't get steam to launch and neither minecraft. I found out after some digging that nvidia-smi did not detect my GPU.
My drivers were up to date, and so was arch. I am rocking an 5070 with HyDE.

## What I tried
After even more digging I found out that starting from 5000 series, nvidia will NOT push forward any proprietary drivers and only open source ones. Thus, I switched to nvidia-open, and when I opened kitty, I was met with a lovely blank window. Kitty returned me this error: "EGL: Failed to clear current context: An EGLDisplay argument does not name a valid EGL display connection." I tried using nvidia-open-dkms and nvidia-beta and neither worked.

## What I'd like

Well to fix the issue, xd. More seriously, since the proprietary drivers won't work with my gpu, I assume the only solution here is to fix the wayland side of the issues, and precisely EGL. Thus, if anyone here has any idea to fix it, I'll try gladly your suggestions.

*oh and yes i'll post also this message in the wayland forums*

Edit: I've found two links in nvidia forums talking about things, tho I don't quite understand what is really at stake here:
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/w … ies/312688
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/w … ies/312688

Last edited by elpotetos (2025-10-27 09:45:43)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,247

Re: Compatibility issues with nvidia-open and GBM/EGL

what does `pacman -Qs 'kernel|nvidia'` show?

elpotetos

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Registered: 2025-10-27

Posts: 2

Re: Compatibility issues with nvidia-open and GBM/EGL

Sorry for the delay i wasn't much available.

Here is the result of the command you asked:

local/egl-gbm 1.1.2.1-1
    The GBM EGL external platform library
local/egl-wayland 4:1.1.20-1
    EGLStream-based Wayland external platform
local/egl-x11 1.0.3-1
    NVIDIA XLib and XCB EGL Platform Library
local/fuse2 2.9.9-5
    Interface for userspace programs to export a filesystem to the Linux kernel
local/fuse3 3.17.4-1
    Interface for userspace programs to export a filesystem to the Linux kernel
local/iptables 1:1.8.11-2
    Linux kernel packet control tool (using legacy interface)
local/kmod 34.2-1
    Linux kernel module management tools and library
local/lib32-libdrm 2.4.127-1
    Userspace interface to kernel DRM services (32-bit)
local/lib32-nvidia-utils 580.95.05-1
    NVIDIA drivers utilities (32-bit)
local/libdrm 2.4.127-1
    Userspace interface to kernel DRM services
local/libnetfilter_conntrack 1.0.9-2
    Library providing an API to the in-kernel connection tracking state table
local/libnfnetlink 1.0.2-2
    Low-level library for netfilter related kernel/userspace communication
local/libsysprof-capture 49.0-1
    Kernel based performance profiler - capture library
local/libvdpau 1.5-3
    Nvidia VDPAU library
local/libxnvctrl 580.95.05-1
    NVIDIA NV-CONTROL X extension
local/linux 6.17.5.arch1-1
    The Linux kernel and modules
local/linux-api-headers 6.16-2
    Kernel headers sanitized for use in userspace
local/linux-firmware-nvidia 20251021-1
    Firmware files for Linux - Firmware for NVIDIA GPUs and SoCs
local/linux-headers 6.17.5.arch1-1
    Headers and scripts for building modules for the Linux kernel
local/mtdev 1.1.7-1
    A stand-alone library which transforms all variants of kernel MT events to the slotted type B protocol
local/nvidia 580.95.05-7
    NVIDIA kernel modules
local/nvidia-settings 580.95.05-1
    Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
local/nvidia-utils 580.95.05-1
    NVIDIA drivers utilities

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,247

Re: Compatibility issues with nvidia-open and GBM/EGL

So you didn't switch to nvidia-open, you're using nvidia which won't work with your GPU.