Legacy Nvidia GPU and Wayland support: tl;dr reference page

As for today, too, NVK doesn’t seem to work with the GT 710 (at least my model).

If special instructions are needed to “switch it” I don’t know them.


~$ inxi -Fzxx
System:
  Kernel: 6.15.9-201.fc42.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.1.1
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.4.4 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_wayland dm: SDDM
    Distro: Fedora Linux 42 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: PEGATRON model: IPM31 v: 1.01G
    serial: <superuser required> BIOS: IPM31 v: 0009 date: 07/17/2009
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Pentium E5300 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Penryn rev: A
    cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 2 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2600 min/max: 1203/2603 cores: 1: 2600 2: 2600
    bogomips: 10399
  Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GK208B [GeForce GT 710] driver: nouveau v: kernel
    arch: Fermi-2 pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 ports: active: VGA-1
    empty: DVI-D-1,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:128b temp: 48.0 C
  Display: wayland server: Xwayland v: 24.1.8 compositor: kwin_wayland
    driver: gpu: nouveau display-ID: 0
  Monitor-1: VGA-1 model: ROA VGA-1-0x0000 res: 1280x1024 hz: 75 dpi: 86
    diag: 378mm (14.88")
  API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: nouveau device: 1 drv: swrast
    gbm: drv: nouveau surfaceless: drv: nouveau wayland: drv: nouveau x11:
    drv: nouveau
  API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 4.3 vendor: mesa v: 25.1.7 glx-v: 1.4
    direct-render: yes renderer: NV106 device-ID: 10de:128b display-ID: :0.0
  API: Vulkan v: 1.4.313 surfaces: N/A device: 0 type: cpu
    driver: mesa llvmpipe device-ID: 10005:0000
  Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
    de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor wl: wayland-info x11: xdriinfo,
    xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio vendor: Pegatron
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:27d8
  Device-2: NVIDIA GK208 HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 bus-ID: 04:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0e0f
  API: ALSA v: k6.15.9-201.fc42.x86_64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.7 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
    4: pw-jack type: plugin
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Pegatron driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
    port: d800 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
  IF: enp2s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 536.57 GiB used: 35.62 GiB (6.6%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: HDS721032CLA362 size: 298.09 GiB
    speed: <unknown> serial: <filter> temp: 39 C
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Kingfast model: N/A size: 238.47 GiB
    speed: <unknown> serial: <filter> temp: 53 C
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 237.47 GiB used: 35.1 GiB (14.8%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sdb3
  ID-2: /boot size: 973.4 MiB used: 534.2 MiB (54.9%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/sdb2
  ID-3: /home size: 237.47 GiB used: 35.1 GiB (14.8%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/sdb3
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 3.81 GiB used: 1.9 GiB (49.9%) priority: 100
    dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 52.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 48.0 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Memory: total: 4 GiB available: 3.81 GiB used: 2.81 GiB (73.6%)
  Processes: 256 Power: uptime: 9m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 257
    target: graphical (5) default: graphical
  Packages: pm: rpm pkgs: N/A note: see --rpm Compilers: N/A Shell: Bash
    v: 5.2.37 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.38