Fedora Continues Working On Better NVIDIA Support, PipeWire Could Replace PulseAudio

[ChristianSchaller]

Does anyone knows how well Gnome Wayland works with the NVIDIA binary driver?

It works really well and not at all depending on how you look at it It runs and works fine, but XWayland is broken, so any application you have which is not Wayland native will not work, and since we expect that to cover a lot of the applications people want to run we have still not enabled it by default and recommend Nvidia user to stay on X for the time being. We are working hard though on getting the two playing nice together.

[Steffo]

It works really well and not at all depending on how you look at it It runs and works fine, but XWayland is broken, so any application you have which is not Wayland native will not work, and since we expect that to cover a lot of the applications people want to run we have still not enabled it by default and recommend Nvidia user to stay on X for the time being. We are working hard though on getting the two playing nice together.

Thx! Because I really need NVIDIA for CUDA related stuff.

[miabrahams]

Fractional scaling, finally!

[eydee]

Fedora should first concentrate on very basic hardware compatibility. Just a few weeks ago I wanted to test it on a Ryzen system, the live media did not even boot but freaked out and thew a kernel panic, because of "unknown hardware". Even Ubuntu 14.04 booted up and worked fine with its ancient, but well-maintained kernel.

It doesn't matter what drives your sound system, as long as you can't even boot.

[Pecisk]

For those ancient ones still trying to use Nvidia installer - rpmfusion -> install all required nvidia packages -> say thank you to packagers.

[Pecisk]

It works really well and not at all depending on how you look at it It runs and works fine, but XWayland is broken, so any application you have which is not Wayland native will not work, and since we expect that to cover a lot of the applications people want to run we have still not enabled it by default and recommend Nvidia user to stay on X for the time being. We are working hard though on getting the two playing nice together.

Christian, does it mean you got it working at least at introductory level? Good to hear! Although I am trying to stick with Nouveau driver for now for testing purposes, I am gamer too, so I want that binary driver working for Wayland.

[bug77]

I haven't spoken Chinese in a while (except in some cases), but iirc all it took was to go to China and learn it. Not the best experience, yet only a nightmare for those unfamiliar with China, I would think.

Aside from having to kill the dm, you just have to run an executable. I fail to see anything exotic here.

[fuzz]

Wow it's so nice using AMD hardware with drivers that just work out of the box.

[Charlie68]

This is always current ...

[pal666]

I tried Fedora a few months ago, and left quickly when installing the Nvidia driver quickly became a nightmare.

next time be smarter and don't buy nvidia's shit