[HowTo] Use Wayland with proprietary NVIDIA drivers

[Yochanan]

This tutorial is sorely out of date and missing a lot of information. Most is now in the Arch wiki, anyway. I’m going to unlist it for now.

[TriMoon]

@Chrysostomus

Enable modesetting for nvdia drivers. Follow the instructions in the Arch wiki :

Instead of adding the option on the kernel-command-line, you could also use the below, which makes it boot-loader agnostic

• /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-graphics-drivers-kms.conf

  # This file was generated by nvidia-driver-535
  # Set value to 0 to disable modesetting
  options nvidia-drm modeset=1
  

  (The above was auto generated after i installed nvidia-dkms-535 on Kubuntu…)

[Yochanan]

That’s actually what I do myself.

❯ cat /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf
options nvidia-drm modeset=1
options nvidia "NVreg_UsePageAttributeTable=1"
options nvidia "NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1"
options nvidia "NVreg_TemporaryFilePath=/var/tmp"
options nvidia "NVreg_EnableS0ixPowerManagement=1"

[Yochanan]

@ NovaspirtTech: You missed something:

@Yochanan

This tutorial is sorely out of date and missing a lot of information. Most is now in the Arch wiki, anyway.

@Yochanan

options nvidia "NVreg_UsePageAttributeTable=1"
options nvidia "NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1"
options nvidia "NVreg_TemporaryFilePath=/var/tmp"
options nvidia "NVreg_EnableS0ixPowerManagement=1"

Those options have nothing to do with Wayland and should not be copied and pasted blindly.