XWayland 21.1.3 Nears With Support For NVIDIA 495 Driver's GBM

[phoronix]

Phoronix: XWayland 21.1.3 Nears With Support For NVIDIA 495 Driver's GBM

The release candidate to XWayland 21.1.3 is out today with just a few changes but made significant by support for the NVIDIA 495 series driver GBM code path...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XWayland-21.1.3-RC

[MastaG]

Do all these fixes going into standalone XWayland releases also make it into Xorg?

So let's say the next release of Xorg comes out then all distributions not shipping the standalone XWayland package would also benefit of being able to use nVidia's GBM backend.

[mantide]

Does anyone know how to set cool bits for NVIDIA cards with wayland? or know how to overlock with NVIDIA and wayland?

[tildearrow]

Do all these fixes going into standalone XWayland releases also make it into Xorg?

So let's say the next release of Xorg comes out then all distributions not shipping the standalone XWayland package would also benefit of being able to use nVidia's GBM backend.

XWayland is part of X.Org, so yes.

However, this change only affects the XWayland part of it, which means no changes in X.Org land.

[oiaohm]

XWayland is part of X.Org, so yes.

However, this change only affects the XWayland part of it, which means no changes in X.Org land.

I do hope in time Nvidia end up supporting X.org modesetting driver.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Modesetting-Query-DRI-Driver

Yes GBM, KMS are two required parts. Yes the third to EGL feature EGL_MESA_query_driver so the cards supported by the graphics drivers don't have to be listed in X.org.

[You-]

Do all these fixes going into standalone XWayland releases also make it into Xorg?

So let's say the next release of Xorg comes out then all distributions not shipping the standalone XWayland package would also benefit of being able to use nVidia's GBM backend.

The next potential release of xorg will not include xwayland. Distros wont be able to choose between the standalone xwayland release and the xorg release because they wont contain overlapping components.

[aufkrawall]

Does anyone know how to set cool bits for NVIDIA cards with wayland? or know how to overlock with NVIDIA and wayland?

You can't, among many other things.

[brad0]

I do hope in time Nvidia end up supporting X.org modesetting driver.

Sure, when pigs fly.

[Anvil]

Do all these fixes going into standalone XWayland releases also make it into Xorg?

So let's say the next release of Xorg comes out then all distributions not shipping the standalone XWayland package would also benefit of being able to use nVidia's GBM backend.

XWayland an Xorg are totally seperate Packages, so ya gonna get different updates for each one.

[Anvil]

I do hope in time Nvidia end up supporting X.org modesetting driver.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Modesetting-Query-DRI-Driver

Yes GBM, KMS are two required parts. Yes the third to EGL feature EGL_MESA_query_driver so the cards supported by the graphics drivers don't have to be listed in X.org.

there's more Development going into XWayland than there is of Xorg, so i cant see that happening