Status of Wayland implementation on nVidia graphics cards
Martin Flöser
mgraesslin at kde.org
Thu Sep 21 16:20:16 BST 2017
Am 2017-09-20 20:22, schrieb Christian Ohrfandl:
> Dear KDE community,
>
> I just installed KDE Neon Git unstable from September 19th 2017 on may
> main computer. I want to use Wayland (because of testing and
> submitting potential bug reports), but I can't (after user login,
> screen is black with a big cursor, but I can not interact with the
> session; most probably because of my nVidia Geforce 760 graphics
> card).
>
> Therfore, I want to ask how mature Wayland/nVidia implementation is?
> Does it work in general? If so, which driver (nouveau or proprietary)?
> Is there a (bug)tracker?
NVIDIA has an own implementation (EGLStreams) which we do not support
and do not plan to support (more information in my blog at [1]).
Nouveau should work, though I haven't tested it yet.
Cheers,
Martin
[1] https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2016/09/to-eglstream-or-not/
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