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The current stable proprietary driver is a nightmare on Wayland with my 3070, constant flickering and stuttering everywhere. Apparently the upcoming version 555

by mepian 2y ago

The current stable proprietary driver is a nightmare on Wayland with my 3070, constant flickering and stuttering everywhere. Apparently the upcoming version 555 is much better, I'm sticking with X11 until it comes out. I never tried the open-source one yet, not sure if it supports my GPU at all.

llmblockchain 2y ago
I have a 3070 on X and it has been great.
- levkk 2y ago
  Same setup here. Multiple displays don't work well for me. One of the displays doesn't often get detected after resuming screen saver.
  - llmblockchain 2y ago
    I have two monitors connected to the 3070 and it works well. The only issue I had was suspending, the GPU would "fall of the bus" and not get its power back when the PC woke up. I had to add the kernel line "pcie_aspm=off" to prevent the GPU from falling asleep. So... not perfect, but it works.
    - josephg 2y ago
      Huh. I’m using 2 monitors connected to a 4090 on Linux mint - which is still using X11. It works flawlessly, including DPI scaling. Wake from sleep is fine too. I haven’t tried wayland yet. Sounds like it might be time soon given other comments in this thread.
misterbishop 2y ago
this is resolved in 555 (currently running 555.58.02). my asus zephyrus g15 w/ 3060 is looking real good on Fedora 40. there's still optimizations needed around clocking, power, and thermals. but the graphics presentation layer has no issues on wayland. that's with hybrid/optimus/prime switching, which has NEVER worked seamlessly for me on any laptop on linux going back to 2010. gnome window animations remain snappy and not glitchy while running a game. i'm getting 60fps+ running baldurs gate 3 @ 1440p on the low preset.
- robviren 2y ago
  Had similar experience with my Legion 5i 3070 with Wayland and Nvidia 555, but my HDMI out is all screwed up now of course. Working on 550. One step forward and one step back.
  - misterbishop 2y ago
    is there a mux switch?
bcrescimanno 2y ago
The 555 version is the current version. It was officially released on June 27. https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-555.58-Linux-Driver https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-555.58-Linux-Driver
- JasonSage 2y ago
  In defense of the parent, upcoming can still be a relative term, albeit a bit misleading. For example: I'm running the 550 drivers still because my upstream nixos-unstable doesn't have 555 for me yet.
  - mepian 2y ago
    Yep, I'm on openSUSE Tumbleweed, and it's not rolled out there yet. I would rather wait than update my drivers out-of-band.
  - SushiHippie 2y ago
    The versions that nixos provides are based on the files in this repo https://github.com/aaronp24/nvidia-versions https://github.com/aaronp24/nvidia-versions See: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/9355fa86e6f27422963132c2c9aeedb0fb963d93/pkgs/os-specific/linux/nvidia-x11/default.nix#L30 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/9355fa86e6f27422963132... You could also opt to use the latest driver instead of stable: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nvidia https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nvidia
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  - mananaysiempre 2y ago
    > nixos-unstable doesn't have 555 Version 555.58.02 is under “latest” in nixos-unstable as of about three weeks ago[1]. (Somebody should check with qyliss if she knows the PR tracker is dead... But the last nixos-unstable bump was two days ago, so it’s there.) [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/4e15c4a8ad30c02d6c2614565600865aec80edca https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/4e15c4a8ad30c02d6c26...
gmokki 2y ago
I switched to Wayland 10 years ago when it became an option ok Fedora. First thing I had to do was to drop NVIDIA and switch to Intel GPU, and past 5 years to AMD GPU. Makes a big difference if the upstream kernel is supported. Maybe NVIDIA drivers have kind of worked on 12 month old kernels that Ubuntu on average uses.

by mepian 2y ago

llmblockchain 2y ago

I have a 3070 on X and it has been great.

levkk 2y ago
Same setup here. Multiple displays don't work well for me. One of the displays doesn't often get detected after resuming screen saver.
- llmblockchain 2y ago
  I have two monitors connected to the 3070 and it works well. The only issue I had was suspending, the GPU would "fall of the bus" and not get its power back when the PC woke up. I had to add the kernel line "pcie_aspm=off" to prevent the GPU from falling asleep. So... not perfect, but it works.
  - josephg 2y ago
    Huh. I’m using 2 monitors connected to a 4090 on Linux mint - which is still using X11. It works flawlessly, including DPI scaling. Wake from sleep is fine too. I haven’t tried wayland yet. Sounds like it might be time soon given other comments in this thread.

misterbishop 2y ago

this is resolved in 555 (currently running 555.58.02). my asus zephyrus g15 w/ 3060 is looking real good on Fedora 40. there's still optimizations needed around clocking, power, and thermals. but the graphics presentation layer has no issues on wayland. that's with hybrid/optimus/prime switching, which has NEVER worked seamlessly for me on any laptop on linux going back to 2010. gnome window animations remain snappy and not glitchy while running a game. i'm getting 60fps+ running baldurs gate 3 @ 1440p on the low preset.

robviren 2y ago
Had similar experience with my Legion 5i 3070 with Wayland and Nvidia 555, but my HDMI out is all screwed up now of course. Working on 550. One step forward and one step back.
- misterbishop 2y ago
  is there a mux switch?

bcrescimanno 2y ago

The 555 version is the current version. It was officially released on June 27. https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-555.58-Linux-Driver https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-555.58-Linux-Driver

JasonSage 2y ago
In defense of the parent, upcoming can still be a relative term, albeit a bit misleading. For example: I'm running the 550 drivers still because my upstream nixos-unstable doesn't have 555 for me yet.
- mepian 2y ago
  Yep, I'm on openSUSE Tumbleweed, and it's not rolled out there yet. I would rather wait than update my drivers out-of-band.
- SushiHippie 2y ago
  The versions that nixos provides are based on the files in this repo https://github.com/aaronp24/nvidia-versions https://github.com/aaronp24/nvidia-versions See: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/9355fa86e6f27422963132c2c9aeedb0fb963d93/pkgs/os-specific/linux/nvidia-x11/default.nix#L30 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/9355fa86e6f27422963132... You could also opt to use the latest driver instead of stable: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nvidia https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nvidia
- deleted 2y ago
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- mananaysiempre 2y ago
  > nixos-unstable doesn't have 555 Version 555.58.02 is under “latest” in nixos-unstable as of about three weeks ago[1]. (Somebody should check with qyliss if she knows the PR tracker is dead... But the last nixos-unstable bump was two days ago, so it’s there.) [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/4e15c4a8ad30c02d6c2614565600865aec80edca https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/4e15c4a8ad30c02d6c26...

gmokki 2y ago

I switched to Wayland 10 years ago when it became an option ok Fedora. First thing I had to do was to drop NVIDIA and switch to Intel GPU, and past 5 years to AMD GPU. Makes a big difference if the upstream kernel is supported. Maybe NVIDIA drivers have kind of worked on 12 month old kernels that Ubuntu on average uses.