Does that mean I can switch to Wayland from x11??
Some compositors haven’t updated yet to my knowledge. I think KDE has something in the aur but not the wider release until their 6.1 release in June. I’m not 100% though
You’re correct. While the stable version of KDE Wayland is usable right now with the new driver with no flickering issues, etc., it technically does not have the necessary patches needed for explicit sync. Nvidia has put some workarounds in the 555 driver code to prevent flickering without explicit sync, but they’re slower code paths.
The AUR has a package called kwin-explicit-sync, which is just the latest stable kwin with the explicit sync patches applied. This combined with the 555 drivers makes explicit sync work, finally solving the flickering issues in a fast performant way.
I’ve tested with both kwin and kwin-explicit-sync and the latter has dramatically improved input latency. I am basically daily driving Wayland now and it is awesome.
Last piece of puzzle is to add cli mtp support on wayland, i have 2 laptops one on AMD and second on Nvidia and with wayland on AMD while Nvidia with x11, and i can’t use jdupes on my mtp connections on wayland and i can’t “cd” into mtp connection while gui apps doing fine on wayland
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Not if you need color management. Anyone who creates anything could use color management.
Doesn’t KDE basically have color management with 6 or 6.1 or something?
YOOO!!
I can’t wait to get home for this! I’m going to try to use VRR again too, see how it plays with that.
Got home, it’s working really well. Like, I’m super pleased!
VRR still needs testing on my system. I know that there’s yet to be a fix for multi-monitor VRR. I still need to test with a single monitor, though.
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How long do these drivers usually take to move out of beta?
I recently tried Wayland and it was not so pleasant experience. Guess I’ll try again soon.
There was no sync at all in the last drivers, now we have good sync, it should be nice smooth experience once everything updates
Heh, I tried the NVK driver just out of curiosity and it worked better than proprietary driver for Wayland. I wonder if this update would make that level of smoothness.
NVK is great overall, for gaming eeeeh, no, sadly. I think it’s getting improvements for vulkan gaming
But 555 beta is already much better than 550 on wayland
Well, I tried gaming but best it can do is mid-tier gaming. Still impressive though.
That’s good to hear. Hopefully they release final version soon.
Let’s freaking gooooo!
Did they fixed the kernel panic problem that persisted in the last two versions? I don’t dare to try it, last month their proprietary driver has almost destroyed my machine.
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What’s up with the Fedora font on the ‘explicit sync’ though? Hmmm…
