I hope #Nvidia goes out of business, at this point. Another crash and another lost session. #Linux #Wayland
I'm either gonna downgrade ("downgrade") from this expensive PC, or I'm gonna see if I can replace its socketed CPU with one with (non-Nvidia) integrated graphics.
Reminded of how the things of the world don't satisfy ( #Christianity ) ultimately.
@golemwire Nvidia and Wayland is a no-go, but it's Wayland that is broken
@travellator2 @golemwire Wayland on my 3090 has been running flawlessly for a couple of years now.
Even sway worked fine and still does.
@elebertus @travellator2 Huh. Are you using the Nouveau graphics driver? I'm on Sway too.
@golemwire @travellator2 nope using the blob - I will say that I use gnome for actual gaming though, but that’s more to do with how games react to being in a tiled env (I think).
What sorta stuff are you running into and what card do you have?
@elebertus It's a "GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile" according to lspci.
When using a driver other than Nouveau, many graphical assets go blank on resume from suspend (that's the main issue, really). But sway doesn't work with non-Nouveau drivers for me, I get awful flickering (much worse than screen tearing) and other issues.
Also, if I turn the screen off and wait a while, it will not come back on; the error in my logs says that the 'GPU fell off the bus'.
There are many stability problems as well.
@elebertus I was trying to find a replacement CPU for my current one (my laptop actually has a socketed CPU). I wanted the replacement one to have integrated (non-Nvidia!) graphics. But I don't think that'll work out.
@golemwire whoa so it’s discrete graphics only and a socketed cpu? What sorta laptop are we talking about here because it sounds pretty rad
@elebertus It's a pretty beastly machine. It's the System76 Serval WS, serw12. Rad indeed.
But I just realized that there was something I did in the past with my system configuration which I perhaps shouldn't've... a bunch of nvidia's systemd services are masked/disabled on my system. I need to try re-enabling all that and seeing if it helps me.
I had disabled them because they reported a failing status, which made systemd think my session was degraded, which was annoying.
@golemwire with mobile there’s other.. stuff you may have to do to disable / enable the switching to non-discrete, which is likely what’s happening.
Also there’s even more nuance with using older hardware. Some of the most recent driver versions won’t support specific older nvidia architectures.
Tbh I’ll not buy nvidia again after owning them since the riva tnt days, really just because their support in linux / older stuff is awful. Functional for newer, but yeah.