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I literally cannot get Wayland working. Everything is broken. It's slow, the fractional scaling doesn't work, full screening apps like vlc or games turn off my
by okasaki 3y ago
I literally cannot get Wayland working. Everything is broken. It's slow, the fractional scaling doesn't work, full screening apps like vlc or games turn off my monitors, the distro installer crashes, playing a youtube video makes my laptop heat up like crazy, one time a display change made my laptop's screen flicker so hard that it persisted after I restored the settings, another time it turned my monitor's bright red and white respectively.
This is on fresh installs of Ubuntu 22.04 and 23.10.
X11 with XFCE and i3 with picom works perfectly. It's blazing fast, has no tearing, never crashes, uses next to no resources, has no bugs and runs everything. I even use ddccontrol to change my external monitor's brightness.
- temp0826 3y agoMaybe try a more modern distro like Fedora. I haven't had any issue with it (intel igpu+nvidia dgpu) in a while.
- ApolloFortyNine 3y agoOp mentioned ubuntu 23.10... which was released two months ago.
- hedora 3y agoI noticed all sorts of horrible breakage in Ubuntu (including LTS updates) over the last 3-5 years (I gave up on it in the 20.* days for anything except VMs / docker containers) Examples included DNS taking 5 seconds to resolve each host, the syslog fiasco, systemd flat out not working, etc, etc. Maybe that's what they're referring to? (At this point, I'm looking for anything that's stable and still uses a normal init + x11, FWIW. I wouldn't consider Fedora, since it's owned by IBM, and Red Hat's new business model under them is "systematically violate the GPL and see if we can get away from it".)
- temp0826 3y agoThat's not really what I meant by modern
- ofrzeta 3y agoSo, modern by your own definition of "modern". What is it exactly besides being Fedora?
- vetinari 3y agoI have one machine with ubuntu 22.04, and I've never seen any of the described issues. I doubt that 23.10 regressed.
- shadowgovt 3y agoOutside of using Wayland, do you do much 3D rendering? The symptoms you describe almost sound like a dying 3D graphics card (or 3D graphics card with misconfigured drivers). I wonder if Wayland is requiring the 3D layer to do its compositing and other window engines don't?
- vetinari 3y agoWayland compositors will happily use gpu 3d engine, if it is available. Otherwise, they will do their job with Mesa's software rendering. They also accept dma-buf handles from clients, so if other software on the system does use gpu, the compositor has somehow to do its composition, and zero-copy if possible.
- okasaki 3y agoMy laptop isn't dying, dude. It works perfectly in Windows 11 and X11, including running the latest games.
- shadowgovt 3y agoFair enough. I only suggested it because it turned out to be the root cause the last time my video flaked that badly. Heat sink had failed.