NVIDIA 545.29.02 Linux Driver Released With Much Better Wayland Support

[xAlt7x]

So I take it that those NV cards don't work well even with the OSS nouveau driver? Perhaps the latter has been more focused on getting basic I/O and rendering / clocking working than with optimizing the wayland UX, or maybe it doesn't even work great at the basic level with the GF7xx series.

1. Nowadays Nouveau drivers on Kepler work quite well after applying re-clocking boot parameters

nouveau.config=NvClkMode=15,NvBoost=2,NvPmEnableGating=2

2. Screen sharing/recording on GNOME Wayland is currently broken (but works with KWin & wlroots).

[pong]

I have a 710 but it is a GPU very limited in terms of codification. This kind of cards will be supported on Wayland by MESA, but I'm going to switch to a newer card.

I thought about getting a NV7xx card for a display on an IGPU-less host but IIRC none could even drive a 4k 30/60 Hz HDMI/DP display or two so it was a non-starter for me.

I'd like a basic single slot cheap GPU that does 4kx60 dual monitor output and has basic modern architecture GL/CL/DX graphics & compute so I could use it for host or pass-through but apparently I've got to aim higher than the GF7x. The ARC3/5 or maybe some of the RX6xxx cards or RTX3050/60 could work but some of those get rather big / expensive.

[leigh123linux]

I hope RPMFusion will hurry up and include it for F39.

I'm skipping this version for < f40 due to this issue https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/...anch/269778/15
I also think it affects vulkan using wayland.

[bug77]

No, like *I* said. I already wrote "HDR10 is not the only 10-bit standard and ...". See my third sentence of my original comment. I suggest you start there and read what I wrote. Do not go by what bug77 wrote. He just is not good at reading comments.

Oh I'm good at reading comments, you're just bad at writing them. You made such a mess of those 3 terms, I felt I need to untangle that, should someone less knowledgeable want to read this thread.

[sdack]

Oh I'm good at reading comments ...

No, you are not good at it and your lack of reading comprehension is a problem for everyone, only not for you as you have now demonstrated with your ignorance.

[CommunityMember]

I hope RPMFusion will hurry up and include it for F39.

Last I knew there was mostly just one person doing the work on the nvidia drivers at RPMFusion. If you want to see it happen faster (and more reliably faster), you should go volunteer to assist. Then everyone wins.

[Spike_Spiegel]

I'm skipping this version for < f40 due to this issue https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/...anch/269778/15
I also think it affects vulkan using wayland.

I tested this due to your commit and can confirm that under wayland the game hangs at the valve logo. x-org the game loads proper. 545.29.03 is supposed to fix this I guess.

[mercster]

Cool!

[mdedetrich]

It is probably obvious to those who have worked with this, but I thought that NVIDIA was criticized for having poor support and that nouveau was fully open source but only worked well with older NV GPU models. So I take it that those NV cards don't work well even with the OSS nouveau driver? Perhaps the latter has been more focused on getting basic I/O and rendering / clocking working than with optimizing the wayland UX, or maybe it doesn't even work great at the basic level with the GF7xx series.

Nouveau has historically never worked well for anything besides basic video output, anything serious always required using the NVidia blob. Largely the reason why people criticize the blob is due to FOSS reasons.

As mentioned before this may change with things like the shader compiler.

[pracedru]

NVidia drivers certainly need improvements.
So good. But I've replaced my 2 decade long Nvidia journey with AMD now. And I am not going back to Nvidia before I've seen significant improvements.