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beliumgl

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Registered: 2025-01-08

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Issues with Wayland Session on KDE with NVIDIA GeForce GT 710

I'm currently using KDE as my desktop environment, but I'm facing significant challenges when trying to start a Wayland session. Unfortunately, I have no choice but to use X11 for now due to these issues.
When I attempt to start a Wayland session, I initially see only the cursor, which has an input lag of over 5000 ms. I do see the desktop, but it remains completely unresponsive.
I am using an NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 graphics card with the 470xx driver from AUR. I've enabled DRM and have the nvidia-470xx-utils package installed. However, I am encountering some errors related to DRM in my logs:

[   10.277064] systemd[1]: Finished Load Kernel Module drm.
[   28.129488] [drm:drm_new_set_master [drm]] *ERROR* [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Failed to grab modeset ownership
[   28.129642] [drm:drm_new_set_master [drm]] *ERROR* [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Failed to grab modeset ownership

I have also tried running GNOME on Wayland, but it starts with X11 regardless of my configuration settings.

Last edited by beliumgl (2025-01-08 08:08:01)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Issues with Wayland Session on KDE with NVIDIA GeForce GT 710

Wayland support in the nvidia driver only got actually usable with 495 (GBM support) and only really day to day useful with 550xx (explicit sync for xwayland). You're not going to get much Wayland going on the prop driver in that version. If you want to use Wayland with this chipset you'd have to opt for nouveau.

Last edited by V1del (2025-01-08 10:08:17)

beliumgl

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Registered: 2025-01-08

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Re: Issues with Wayland Session on KDE with NVIDIA GeForce GT 710

Wayland support in the nvidia driver only got actually usable with 495 (GBM support) and only really day to day useful with 550xx (explicit sync for xwayland). You're not going to get much Wayland going on the prop driver in that version. If you want to use Wayland with this chipset you'd have to opt for nouveau.

Is there any way to fix this issues (at least any patches)?

Last edited by beliumgl (2025-01-08 10:25:07)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Issues with Wayland Session on KDE with NVIDIA GeForce GT 710

No, the nvidia proprietary driver is proprietary, only nvidia can fix those, since they stopped their feature support for this chipset there's nothing you can realistically do (you could in theory test a very old version of plasma 5 that still had EGLStreams support, but that's going to be very involved and not worth the hassle). Really nouveau is the only realistic option here and should be more or less sufficient for normal desktop use.

You have a 11 year old entry level card here, you should in general not expect many wonders from it.