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poppybara

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Registered: 2023-02-21

Posts: 22

kwin_wayland doesnt work with nvidia

Hello!

As advised by arch wiki, I have followed https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland/Nvidia and ensured the required dependencies are installed

I have also confirmed modesetting is enabled and selected "Plasma(Wayland)" session in SDDM

However, KDE seems to continue using X11 anyways

Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.4.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2
Kernel Version: 6.10.3-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 5600H with Radeon Graphics
Memory: 15.0 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650/PCIe/SSE2
Manufacturer: HP
Product Name: Victus by HP Gaming Laptop 15-fb0xxx

I happen to have an integrated GPU as well, but afaik, there isnt a way to select it manually without actually disabling the dGPU entirely

Please advise and thank you very much!

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 13,236

Re: kwin_wayland doesnt work with nvidia

Did you add nvidia_drm.modeset=1 as kernel parameter to prevent issues with the simpledrm device ?

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA … de_setting

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spacemannn

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Registered: 2024-08-08

Posts: 9

Re: kwin_wayland doesnt work with nvidia

However, KDE seems to continue using X11 anyways

To double check, are you selecting a KDE Wayland session from the menu on the login screen? There should be an entry for KDE X11 and KDE Wayland after installing the KDE wayland requirements.

Last edited by spacemannn (2024-08-08 21:57:49)

poppybara

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Registered: 2023-02-21

Posts: 22

Re: kwin_wayland doesnt work with nvidia

Yes I have added modeset=1

and yes, i am correctly selecting KDE wayland session from the login screen.

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 13,236

Re: kwin_wayland doesnt work with nvidia

Please post the outputs of

$ eglinfo -B
$ DRI_PRIME=1 eglinfo -B

from within the session

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