NVIDIA 550 Linux Beta Driver Released With Many Fixes, VR Displays & Better (X)Wayland

[oleid]

Are we talking the same "latest stable"? Mine is 545.29.06.

Exactly.

[Delta_44]

Yeah, it's almost like there isn't a big "beta" in the title of the article.
Try KDE, maybe you'll have less issues with that.

It's almost like v545 was stable, was it? GNOME Wayland broke for me too since it's the only DE on Wayland that makes me unable to play games: suddenly no game opens using WINE, how hilarious. COSMIC DE works and it's Wayland only.

[Panix]

Makes the GNOME Wayland session unable to be selected in GDM for me
`org.gnome.Shell.desktop[980]: Failed to setup: The GPU /dev/dri/card0 chosen as primary is not supported by EGL.`

Seems like a good release. Both 545 and 550 series have been unusable and full of regressions.

Thanks for sharing your gpu hardware info.

I'm reading a lot of Nvidia gpu owners saying the experience is improving a lot - that using Wayland is (becoming) smooth - not just here but other sites (I visit) as well. Sounds promising. You might want to provide more info?

[theriddick]

Hope they can enabled DLSS Frame Gen support sometime soon. (I know few here would use it, but I sometimes do)

[Weasel]

I'm reading a lot of Nvidia gpu owners saying the experience is improving a lot - that using Wayland is (becoming) smooth - not just here but other sites (I visit) as well. Sounds promising. You might want to provide more info?

Wayland is broken by design so I doubt it.

[bug77]

Wayland is broken by design so I doubt it.

Well then, if you doubt it, I guess we'd better pack up and go home.

I didn't hold my breath for Wayland, I gave it a try every 6 months or so and then promptly went back to X. With Plasma 6, I don't have to go back to X anymore. There are two annoying issues (one with Firefox, one with Chromium) that I run into. But other than that, it's usable. Broken, maybe, but usable.

[SkyWarrior]

This beta is soo beta that it killed all window decorations along with any cursor stability for me (4060ti 16G, ubuntu 23.10). Back to 545.29.06.

[pong]

Re: "beta quality support for GeForce and Workstation GPUs on the Open Kernel Modules"

Anyone care to comment what it's like / what breaks / what works well trying to use Open Kernel Modules NV driver with
LINUX desktop and ordinary mid-range Ampere consumer GPUs?

[Brittle2]

Re: "beta quality support for GeForce and Workstation GPUs on the Open Kernel Modules"

Anyone care to comment what it's like / what breaks / what works well trying to use Open Kernel Modules NV driver with
LINUX desktop and ordinary mid-range Ampere consumer GPUs?

even nvidia don't know, they say "beta" quality but their official drivers seen to have alpha quality or worse

[Panix]

Wayland is broken by design so I doubt it.

Read around, of ppl who Nvidia gpus and using Wayland - the latest Nvidia driver - seems to me, that more ppl are reporting 'improvements' with experience. At least, that was my experience.