@uis@lemmy.world avatar

uis

@uis@lemmy.world

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

Why I need extra kernel modules to be able to run Wayland on nvidia?

If i run X.org i dont need to modify my kernel or its configs, it just works well (well, well for X.org) out of box. With wayland its the other story. I need to enable nvidia-dkms module and much other stuff to should be configured. There is a whole page about enabling hyprland on nvidia....

uis,
@uis@lemmy.world avatar

Depending on model, you don’t need to.

Short version: Nvidia is terrible company

uis,
@uis@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t think it supports Wayland, and there are no mentions of Wayland anywhere on the website.

It seems you are talking about nouveau and very wrong. Nouveau is part of Mesa, which supports DRI/Mesa GBM by design. You can guess why.

Worked perfectly while I had nvidia gpu. Maybe even more stable than on X11, but memory is kinda fuzzy. It was few years ago.

open-gpu-kernel-modules

Isn’t it their GPL shim?

Nvidia hid all of its special sauce in firmware starting around the 20xx series of cards

Nouveau says around Maxwell

uis,
@uis@lemmy.world avatar

I had Kepler.

Nvidia nuked power managment mid-Maxwell. Gladly, at least one vulnreability has been discovered, that theoretically allows nouveau load their power manager.

uis,
@uis@lemmy.world avatar

No idea, but research to framework, pine64 and system76

uis,
@uis@lemmy.world avatar

I doubt anyone will want to use System V

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • localhost
  • All magazines
    •
    Loading…
    Loading the web debug toolbar…
    Attempt #