NVIDIA 495.44 Linux Driver Released With GBM Support

[lacek]

Done, it's done. Xorg officially dead

Not really, not yet. Wayland is coot, but for stability and software support of X11, it is still in baby state. allthings around"Screen sharing" are a problem for many programs.

[jukk]

Looks like they fixed the broken G-SYNC (according to changelog). It has been broken since the last driver release. Surprising that not many have noticed (there was a post in Nvidia dev forum).

[birdie]

Looks like they fixed the broken G-SYNC (according to changelog). It has been broken since the last driver release. Surprising that not many have noticed (there was a post in Nvidia dev forum).

It was fixed in beta drivers 495.29.05 twelve days ago. I was affected and I noticed.

[jrgiacone]

It was fixed in beta drivers 495.29.05 twelve days ago. I was affected and I noticed.

I believe G-SYNC monitors were unaffected it was the freesync/freesync premium monitors or gsync-compatible monitors that were affected, I had made the original post on the dev forums.

[V1tol]

Looks like they fixed the broken G-SYNC (according to changelog). It has been broken since the last driver release. Surprising that not many have noticed (there was a post in Nvidia dev forum).

I wasn't affected (I don't have anything G-SYNC) but I noticed because it wasn't updated in Manjaro. Now I am waiting for stable update with 495 driver

[jukk]

I believe G-SYNC monitors were unaffected it was the freesync/freesync premium monitors or gsync-compatible monitors that were affected, I had made the original post on the dev forums.

OK, that makes sense. I have a Freesync monitor (not officially G-sync compatible), which worked fine before.

[StarterX4]

It's funny how they tried to cover the GBM with their EGLStreams trash (I couldn't even get it to work on GT610 with GNOME, Weston-eglstreams, nor even Sway, it was just throwing some weird error, but it was supposed to work on Fermi). As always, they fucked [it] up.

[Myownfriend]

Ignoring the GBM part, doesn't this mean nvidia now supports dmabuf? which means we can now do zero copy webcam recording for better performance/cpu usage and also since vaapi requires dmabuf, maybe we will get vaapi (for video encoding) on nvidia? right now gpu accelerated screen recorders with nvidia need to use nvidia specific code using cuda and nvenc and for other platforms you use dmabuf and vaapi.

DMA-buf support was added in their 470.x drivers back in June.

[er888kh]

What features available only in/under Wayland you are missing? I'm really curious.

What about a ton of features which are still not available under Wayland? For instance, you cannot use nvidia-settings. Then, outside of Gnome, there aren't any complete bug-free full-featured DEs yet.

Works much better with touch devices (I'm not sure what didn't work on x11, but wayland was a lot better) . Also those one-to-one gestures are quite satisfying and comfortable to use.

Also playing videos using vlc on intel's 10th gen mobile chips is stuttery on x11 (not sure about the experience with other devices/players)

[omer666]

I do. Configuration should always be easy and up front. A graphics card without a UI to control it is an incomplete product.

Well, good for you, as there is no shortage of UI for setting up screen resolution.