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#1 2024-07-18 01:50:54
- Katsura
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gdm 46.2-2 and Nvidia Wayland Udev rules
Hello,
I hope I have posted this in the right subforum, but I've noticed that recently the package requirement for GDM have changed recently, in this case the following:
- Xorg-server is no longer shipped as a mandatory requirement for GDM.
- However, udev rules that disable Wayland for Nvidia users still exist (/etc/udev/rules.d/61-gdm.rules).
The lack of Xorg-server as a default requirement means that users who rely on the proprietary Nvidia drivers are left without a working display manager, as Wayland is disabled by default.
Perhaps the udev rules that disable the Wayland support should be removed? This seems to cause nothing but problems as it stands now and it seems like a bit of an oversight.
I'm hoping this can be brought to the attention of the maintainers if it hasn't been already.
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#2 2024-07-19 07:38:16
- seth
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Re: gdm 46.2-2 and Nvidia Wayland Udev rules
Wrong platform, any kind of bug report will get completely lost on the bbs => https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … m/-/issues
However the udev rule is an upstream provision, it's unlikely that the package will actively interfere here.
==> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/issues
But eg. the 390xx drivers or some legacy/virtual GPUs won't provide wayland at all, ie. xorg-server is an optional dependency unless your system cannot run wayland or you've not configured the nvidia driver "correctly". Udev rule or not.
===> The install message could perhaps be more clear about the dependency only being conditionally optional, but alpm cannot really reflect the above situation (probably no package manager can, leaving aside that the condition could randomly change completely outside the package system)
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