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I'm on an old GTX 1060 I got off eBay years ago. I've only tried Swaywm, as I'm on i3wm right now. Sway starts, but crashes within seconds. Longest I've got it

I'm on an old GTX 1060 I got off eBay years ago. I've only tried Swaywm, as I'm on i3wm right now. Sway starts, but crashes within seconds. Longest I've got it to run was half an hour before everything froze. Do any other WM's/DE's work better for old Nvidia cards? I don't particularly want to start installing all the Wayland things out there until one works hah. I understand Nvidia isn't great for Wayland...

joecool1029 3y ago
I'm a sway user using a Maxwell Nvidia in an optimus config with an intel skylake (around your vintage, technically a generation older, we're both supported by current drivers). There's a single line patch needed for using nvidia with wlroots that upstream does not want to merge, if you don't have it screens will flicker: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/nvidia.patch?h=wlroots-nvidia https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/nvidia.patch?h=w... Other than that for the first time in like a decade of dealing with Optimus bullshit laptops off and on everything finally works plug and play, even running different refresh rate screens at the same time. Nvidia finally shipped support for controlling gamma in wayland on Halloween so I can use gammastep to shift my screens red at night. In short: Have that patch for wlroots (which sway uses), use newest proprietary driver, block/uninstall nouveau, and make sure the system isn't loading CPU rendering due to a misconfiguration (firefox you can check about:support, chromium/electron-based shit check chrome://gpu) EDIT: oh and since chromium/electron will inevitably temporarily break graphics at some point due to an update... --disable-gpu is your friend to get those apps working (with CPU rendering). Obviously drop it out once those problems subside, it's happened maybe twice to me in the past few months running Gentoo unstable. Firefox seems more resilient and will find a way to run in less ideal circumstances on wayland.
- jakjak123 3y ago
  wow, that is a tiny patch
cycomanic 3y ago
If you're on arch you can use sway-nvidia from AUR. I've been using that on my desktop without significant issues. The only one are some graphic glitches on the steam interface (but not in games). I'm on a 3070ti though. I think it's mainly just environment variables, so if you're on another distro you can have a look at the the GitHub repo and implement it yourself. The biggest nvidia issue I encountered are problems with display managers, GDM would sometimes not start wayland compositors or not start x11 WMs. I tried several others as well and always had issues (never had issues on my previous AMD or Intel machines). I ended up just autostarting a locked sway desktop and everything just works.

joecool1029 3y ago

I'm a sway user using a Maxwell Nvidia in an optimus config with an intel skylake (around your vintage, technically a generation older, we're both supported by current drivers). There's a single line patch needed for using nvidia with wlroots that upstream does not want to merge, if you don't have it screens will flicker: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/nvidia.patch?h=wlroots-nvidia https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/nvidia.patch?h=w... Other than that for the first time in like a decade of dealing with Optimus bullshit laptops off and on everything finally works plug and play, even running different refresh rate screens at the same time. Nvidia finally shipped support for controlling gamma in wayland on Halloween so I can use gammastep to shift my screens red at night. In short: Have that patch for wlroots (which sway uses), use newest proprietary driver, block/uninstall nouveau, and make sure the system isn't loading CPU rendering due to a misconfiguration (firefox you can check about:support, chromium/electron-based shit check chrome://gpu) EDIT: oh and since chromium/electron will inevitably temporarily break graphics at some point due to an update... --disable-gpu is your friend to get those apps working (with CPU rendering). Obviously drop it out once those problems subside, it's happened maybe twice to me in the past few months running Gentoo unstable. Firefox seems more resilient and will find a way to run in less ideal circumstances on wayland.

jakjak123 3y ago
wow, that is a tiny patch

cycomanic 3y ago

If you're on arch you can use sway-nvidia from AUR. I've been using that on my desktop without significant issues. The only one are some graphic glitches on the steam interface (but not in games). I'm on a 3070ti though. I think it's mainly just environment variables, so if you're on another distro you can have a look at the the GitHub repo and implement it yourself. The biggest nvidia issue I encountered are problems with display managers, GDM would sometimes not start wayland compositors or not start x11 WMs. I tried several others as well and always had issues (never had issues on my previous AMD or Intel machines). I ended up just autostarting a locked sway desktop and everything just works.