F42: System with old Nvidia card that doesn't support Wayland?

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I have an old system with an old Nvidia GK104 [GeForce GTX 680] card (before I knew better) that does not support Wayland. I believe that Nvidia decided not to fix Wayland on these old cards that have to use an old 470 driver.

I’m on F41 now and it works with X11 but not Wayland. I’ve read that F42 will eliminate X11 support. What are my options for this system?

Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GK104 [GeForce GTX 680] vendor: eVga.com. driver: nvidia
    v: 470.256.02 arch: Kepler-2 pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports:
    active: none off: DVI-D-1 empty: DP-1,DVI-I-1,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:1180
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.16 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6
    compositor: gnome-shell driver: X: loaded: nouveau unloaded: modesetting
    failed: nvidia alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch
    display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96
  Monitor-1: DVI-D-0 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 96 diag: 585mm (23.04")
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 vendor: nvidia v: 470.256.02 glx-v: 1.4
    direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680/PCIe/SSE2
  API: EGL Message: EGL data requires eglinfo. Check --recommends.
  Info: Tools: api: glxinfo gpu: nvidia-settings x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo,
    xprop, xrandr

Thanks.

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Fedora Workstation still supports X11. You will need to update gdm to version 48.0-3 or newer.

see:
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-36e1759b84
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Thanks. I was able to successfully update my old system to 42.