I currently have an AMD video card (6700 XT) and Wayland support is excellent. Also, multi-monitor support in Wayland works perfectly.

So what’s your experience with Nvidia’s 555 driver in Wayland? Those using it in conjunction with KDE 6.1, what’s your experience with multi-monitor VRR? I ask about VRR because I heard that multi-monitor VRR in Wayland is still problematic.

This is for my own curiosity if an Nvidia video card could be considered as an upgrade option.

  • dinckel@lemmy.world
    12·
    2 years ago

    I wasn’t having many issues to begin with, but with the introduction of explicit sync into Kwin, and driver improvements throughout the 555 beta series, it’s been just about perfect for me.

    The only issue i’ve encountered so far is the panel freezing sometimes. Submit a bug report to both KDE and Nvidia, they’re working on it.

  • bjornsno@lemm.ee
    7·
    2 years ago

    I’m using 555 open with hyprland. No issues and I can finally suspend and resume, using the NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1 module param after being unable to all year.

    Imo stick to amd. I was like you, I thought the Nvidia card would be an upgrade and I thought the rumors of how bad Nvidia was had to be at least a little exaggerated, but honestly it’s a constant pita. Aside from the suspend issue I’ve had random minor system upgrades cause kernel panics and fry my boot more than once this year. That bug is still unresolved btw, their response time leaves much to be desired.

    Having dockerized ollama just work is nice, but it’s not worth it, and they seem to be close to a working vulkan based runner for that anyway.

  • might_steal_your_cat@lemm.ee
    2·
    2 years ago

    I had to use X11 before because using Wayland introduced many bugs (like freezing of some popups and the bottom tray). With updating to Fedora 40, Wayland became the default, which, again, caused many bugs mostly in electron apps (discord) a I wasn’t able to play a minecraft modpack because the whole screen was flickering. But after installing the nvidia driver 555 (still in beta at that time), everythings runs smoothly.

  • Rudee@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 years ago

    I haven’t been able to use it. I’m on Endeavour with KDE and every time I try to log in with Wayland I get a black screen and a very laggy mouse. The programs I open have streaks of black through them and are also laggy Not sure if I have some weird stuff installed in the background, but I’ve had to go back to X11

    • Piwix@lemm.ee
      1·
      2 years ago

      I’ve decided due to running into issues as well, that my system being built on x11 for a few years means I probably wont switch to wayland until I do a fresh install to avoid any potential issues around old x11 packages i’m running

  • gfom@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I’m on a Intel i7-6700K with a RTX2060 and Wayland used to be unusable for me before the 555 drivers. Stuttery games, etc. 555 made it all usuable, tho I don’t have a VRR monitor, so I can’t tell if that makes a huge difference there.

    On Bazzite:testing

  • Zamundaaa@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Multi monitor VRR has never been problematic in Wayland, but the NVidia kernel driver doesn’t support it at all yet, Xorg or Wayland doesn’t matter.

    • Mereo@lemmy.caOP
      2·
      2 years ago

      Indeed. I have an AMD video card and multi-monitor VRR works beautifully in Wayland. But unfortunately, according to some replies (and yours), Nvidia doesn’t support it yet.

  • Karna@lemmy.ml
    11·
    2 years ago

    Ubuntu 24.04 + Gnome 46 + Wayland + Nvidia Rtx 3070 Ti + Driver v555 + Kernel v6.9.3

    • Initially noticed a minor lag when opening Application windows. Then reinstalled libnvidia-egl-wayland1 and apparently that lag is now gone. But, honestly I feel Wayland had more smoother performance with v550, than v555.