Are you talking about wlr-randr? Because its –transform argument only accepts normal|90|180|270|flipped|flipped-90|flipped-180|flipped-270, not any transformation matrix. Maybe its just a limitation of the command line tool and it could be modified, I don’t know, I haven’t been too deep in the code or the protocol specifications. It also looks like it only works with wlroots based compositor.
I’ve been using Wayland sessions as default since plasma 5.22 came around, and with other window managers before that too. Everything that has ever been broken for me, was broken because of X11 or XWayland. I’d rather take a considerably better experience with an occasional issue, that an experience that is held together by candy wrappers and hot glue, and is widely considered obsolete
Im in the same boat. Been using wayland since around that version or a little later and it has only been uphill (except for right now since i am on the development build and Qt broke itself causing the system config menu to fail to load 80% of KCMs, but this is my fault for switching to alpha software lol)
Figured I’d do the pre-setup before I went to bed, so I’ve run the grep command and put the board_name from that output such that the patch now reads thus:
Nice. Also it occurred to me that there might be a way to set that quirk through the kernel command line instead of having to compile a patched kernel. I haven’t had a chance to look it up though.
Edit: I couldn’t find anything obvious. This behaviour is buried pretty deep.
I’d like to try to get it upstream, and that seems like the sanest way to do it.
You might need to be on linux 6.5+ for this patch to apply, and if you could verify that it’s still broken on 6.6 without the patch, that would be nice.
Been using Wayland since 3’ish years ago and my desktop experience has been really smooth – no crashes, errors or anything of the sort. Everything “just werks” just as if I were on Xorg instead. Even on a completely obscure/zero linux support single board computer (Orange pi zero 3).
Not as bad as you might think. The nouveau drivers have come a long way for maxwell. You should give it a shot if you haven’t. But, unfortunately, if you are using anything new then nouveau sucks. It’s a fun game where you get to wait until nvidia no longer wants to support your GPU and hope by that point that nouveau has progressed far enough that you won’t be looking at noman’s land.
I meant the GTX900 series. I’m aware the 700s have decent support in nouveau, but the 900s has already been dropped by nvidia so we are on older drivers not capable of the latest vulkan extensions required by modern Proton.
For nouveau it needs GSP firmware that wasnt released as part of that release they did a while ago. I think pascal users are on the same situation, they just havent been dropped by the proprietary drivers yet. I wonder if we are gonna be stuck on xorg forever.
The newer cards got the important bits released by nvidia so the community can at least have a path forward…
I wasn’t fully aware of NVK and where it’s at. It’s actually pretty exciting. I wouldn’t mind dropping my current nvidia binary blob for fully open source drivers.
it didnt work ootb for me on ubuntu so i dropped it, but i hear it can already be made to work well with the desktop and basic stuff. performance in games is still bad but they are running.
I’ve switched away from Xorg a few years ago because of its terrible multi monitor support and bad experiences with picom. Sway and now hyprland are imo a better tiling wm experience then their Xorg equivalent.
Your best bet is probably figuring out why the graphical session isn’t working and then going from there. Since you’re on NixOS odds are all the logs you need are right there in journald.
Worst case scenario: you might need to pin your system nixpkgs to ~January 2021 until the issue sorts itself out. You can still install newer userland packages if you separately manage them as a flake (this is a common and well-supported pattern in home-manager)
EDIT: found a discussion with good configuration.nixexamples for pinning the system nixpkgs. Once you find a workable pin you could also try inching it up to get a better idea of what broke (January 2021 is a good starting point because it’s the last month before 5.11 released, a newer pin is very likely possible)
Non-gentoo user: “Welp, Gentoo is now just another Arch fork LMAO!”
To be fair, you can still build packages and fine-tune the builds with the Emerge system flags, which is sort-of Gentoo’s killer feature. It is just that they have recognized that most people will install probably 99% of all software without changing the default flags, and so why not give them those packages pre-built.
So I guess this make Gentoo more similar to Nix OS or Guix OS but without the high-tech package manager and dependency resolution.
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