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Espetto

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Registered: 2024-05-18

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No option for using Wayland with nvidia drivers on fresh gnome install

I installed arch using the archinstall script. I then installed gnome and the proprietary nvidia drivers. Unfortunately there is no option to use wayland on the login screen and the "System Details" page in settings says X11 under "Windowing System". I have added nvidia-drm.modeset=1 as a kernel parameter as stated here

#sudo cat /sys/module/nvidia_drm/parameters/modeset prints me "Y"

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,224

Re: No option for using Wayland with nvidia drivers on fresh gnome install

GDM has more requirements for that to work: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GDM#Wa … DIA_driver

Espetto

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Registered: 2024-05-18

Posts: 3

Re: No option for using Wayland with nvidia drivers on fresh gnome install

GDM has more requirements for that to work: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GDM#Wa … DIA_driver

I don't understand what you're showing me. Sorry I'm kind of new to this. What exactly are you telling me to do?

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: No option for using Wayland with nvidia drivers on fresh gnome install

Read the section I linked (and am linking) carefully. You'd minimally also need to enable the preserve video memory hooks as mentioned in https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA … er_suspend -- if you're configuring that correctly then GDM will allow you to select wayland.

If you know you aren't going to suspend the system with the nvidia GPU active you could forgo that and follow the secondary part of the link in the previous post and disable the udev rule GDM uses to determine whether it should show you a wayland session.

Espetto

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Registered: 2024-05-18

Posts: 3

Re: No option for using Wayland with nvidia drivers on fresh gnome install

Read the section I linked (and am linking) carefully. You'd minimally also need to enable the preserve video memory hooks as mentioned in https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA … er_suspend -- if you're configuring that correctly then GDM will allow you to select wayland.

If you know you aren't going to suspend the system with the nvidia GPU active you could forgo that and follow the secondary part of the link in the previous post and disable the udev rule GDM uses to determine whether it should show you a wayland session.

Thank you very much for your help and patience. I ended up installing kde plasma and followed all of the instructions correctly. Everything seems to be in perfect working order.