Hello, i am having a really hard time trying to switch from X11 to Wayland. (even on other distros: Arch, Debian… etc). it just wouldn’t work, starting a wayland session either freezes my system or it gives me a black screen (but everything is working well under the black screen because i can still hear notifcations etc…).
I switched to Fedora because Wayland is supposed to be the default display server and i thought maybe it’s more optimized on it and will somehow fix my issue, well i guess not.
I just installed Fedora 35, then installed the proprietary Nvidia drivers (akmod-nvidia) using the RPM Fusion repository.
I made sure that Nvidia DRM, Xwayland, libxcb, egl-wayland are enabled.
But when i try to start a Wayland session from GDM, it fails and returns back to the GDM interface (but the text becomes glitched)
Here i will post my specs and configs hoping it will help debug the issue.
My GPU:
lspci |grep -E "VGA|3D"
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU116 [GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER] (rev a1)
Driver version:
Wayland and its related packages are installed:
[exilvm@fedora ~]$ dnf list installed xorg-x11-server-Xwayland libxcb egl-wayland
Installed Packages
egl-wayland.x86_64 1.1.9-3.fc35 @updates
libxcb.x86_64 1.13.1-8.fc35 @anaconda
xorg-x11-server-Xwayland.x86_64 21.1.4-1.fc35 @updates
Nvidia DRM is turned on:
[exilvm@fedora ~]$ sudo cat /sys/module/nvidia_drm/parameters/modeset
Y
The Nvidia drivers package from RPM fusion added Kernel entries to blacklist the Nouveau drivers and enable DRM but as you can see it made some entries repeated twice.
[exilvm@fedora ~]$ cat /etc/default/grub
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(sed 's, release .*$,,g' /etc/system-release)"
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true
GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="console"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau nvidia-drm.modeset=1 rd.luks.uuid=((removed)) rhgb quiet rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau nvidia-drm.modeset=1"
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"
GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true
My GDM configs (I haven’t changed anything)
[exilvm@fedora ~]$ cat nano /etc/gdm/custom.conf
cat: nano: No such file or directory
# GDM configuration storage
[daemon]
# Uncomment the line below to force the login screen to use Xorg
#WaylandEnable=false
[security]
[xdmcp]
[chooser]
[debug]
# Uncomment the line below to turn on debugging
#Enable=true
[exilvm@fedora ~]$ cat /etc/gdm/custom.conf
# GDM configuration storage
[daemon]
# Uncomment the line below to force the login screen to use Xorg
#WaylandEnable=false
[security]
[xdmcp]
[chooser]
[debug]
# Uncomment the line below to turn on debugging
#Enable=true
[exilvm@fedora ~]$ cat /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/61-gdm.rules
# disable Wayland on Hi1710 chipsets
ATTR{vendor}=="0x19e5", ATTR{device}=="0x1711", GOTO="gdm_disable_wayland"
# disable Wayland if modesetting is disabled
KERNEL!="card[0-9]*", GOTO="gdm_nomodeset_end"
SUBSYSTEM!="drm", GOTO="gdm_nomodeset_end"
# but keep it enabled for simple framebuffer drivers
DRIVERS=="simple-framebuffer", GOTO="gdm_nomodeset_end"
IMPORT{cmdline}="nomodeset", GOTO="gdm_disable_wayland"
LABEL="gdm_nomodeset_end"
# Disable wayland when nvidia modeset is disabled or when drivers are a lower
# version than 470, in any case always prefer Xorg
KERNEL!="nvidia_drm", GOTO="gdm_nvidia_drm_end"
SUBSYSTEM!="module", GOTO="gdm_nvidia_drm_end"
ACTION!="add", GOTO="gdm_nvidia_drm_end"
# disable wayland if nvidia-drm modeset is not enabled
ATTR{parameters/modeset}!="Y", GOTO="gdm_disable_wayland"
# disable wayland for nvidia drivers versions lower than 470
ATTR{version}=="4[0-6][0-9].*|[0-3][0-9][0-9].*|[0-9][0-9].*|[0-9].*", GOTO="gdm_disable_wayland"
GOTO="gdm_prefer_xorg"
LABEL="gdm_nvidia_drm_end"
GOTO="gdm_end"
LABEL="gdm_prefer_xorg"
RUN+="/usr/libexec/gdm-runtime-config set daemon PreferredDisplayServer xorg"
GOTO="gdm_end"
LABEL="gdm_disable_wayland"
RUN+="/usr/libexec/gdm-runtime-config set daemon WaylandEnable false"
GOTO="gdm_end"
LABEL="gdm_end"
I appreciate your help.
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