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Huso112

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From: Arch Linux KDE X64 UEFI

Registered: 2021-05-31

Posts: 8

Wayland Black Screen With Pointer

Hello.

I installed plasma-wayland-session but when i try to use it, i wait a lot of time on splash screen (and i can see pointer). After splash screen, i see a black screen and pointer.

I am using optimus-manager, optimus-manager-qt, nvidia and nvidia-prime.

Did i miss something.

BTW: I didn't do the KMS thing. Because tutorial says nvidia and nvidia-prime is enough (nvidia driver installation tutorial).

How can i fix? and i couldn't get the KMS thing.

Ammako

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Registered: 2021-07-16

Posts: 267

Re: Wayland Black Screen With Pointer

BTW: I didn't do the KMS thing. Because tutorial says nvidia and nvidia-prime is enough (nvidia driver installation tutorial).

Tutorial...?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wayland#Nvidia_driver

Note that enabling DRM KMS is required. Also note additional information in the official documentation regarding your display manager (e.g. GDM).

Granted, that is for XWayland... but if you're going to attempt to use Wayland on Nvidia you really should be enabling this regardless of whether you're running pure Wayland or not.

Also, Plasma Wayland on Nvidia is really not functional right now. If you want semi-functional Wayland on nvidia, you don't really have another choice but to go Gnome right now. Or stick with X11 until Wayland support matures.

Last edited by Ammako (2021-08-18 00:54:23)

Huso112

Member

From: Arch Linux KDE X64 UEFI

Registered: 2021-05-31

Posts: 8

Re: Wayland Black Screen With Pointer

BTW: I didn't do the KMS thing. Because tutorial says nvidia and nvidia-prime is enough (nvidia driver installation tutorial).

Tutorial...?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wayland#Nvidia_driver

Note that enabling DRM KMS is required. Also note additional information in the official documentation regarding your display manager (e.g. GDM).

Granted, that is for XWayland... but if you're going to attempt to use Wayland on Nvidia you really should be enabling this regardless of whether you're running pure Wayland or not.

Also, Plasma Wayland on Nvidia is really not functional right now. If you want semi-functional Wayland on nvidia, you don't really have another choice but to go Gnome right now. Or stick with X11 until Wayland support matures.

It seems i will stick out

Thanks for the help.