Multiple problems with Fedora 40 + KDE + Wayland + Nvidia

I’m listing the main problems I have here, assuming people with Nvidia might have a similar set of problems:

  1. I’m connecting my Samsung TV QN55S92C with a 4k 120Hz HDMI cable. Previously in Fedora 39 and XOrg, I could set the refresh rate to 144Hz, but now the screen freezes for some time before unfreezing and not having 144 been applied.
  2. I cannot enable the HDR mode for the TV. Same behaviour: screen freezes for some time, then unfreezes and the HDR option is not applied.
  3. If the TV is off, and the computer goes to sleep, when it comes back it does not have the TV in the list of displays, and I need to restart the computer to have it back.
  4. VLC media player has frame jumps. It worked perfectly in XOrg.
  5. Steam client has all kinds of rendering problems.
  6. Remote tools (I’m trying TeamViewer and KDE connect) don’t work practically, because the computer asks for permission each time before sharing the screen, so someone needs to attend to the computer to accept it.

I’ve figured out most of the other apps (like disabling XWayland for them), but these seem to stay aroud since the release of Fedora 40.

Do you know any solutions to these? If no, can you please provide pointers, for where is the right place to report each problem?

Also, despite my problems I’m really happy with Wayland because:

  • No need to restart for text scaling to take effect
  • Ability to have different scaling for different Displays

Thank you

Added f40 and removed f39

You have nvidia listed but provided no details.

Please show the output of inxi -Fzxx so we can at least have a hardware starting point.

Steam is still not 100% usable with wayland. It has improved over the past year but is not fully compatible yet.

Thank you Jeff. Yes, my bad.

inxi -Fzxx
System:
  Kernel: 6.8.11-300.fc40.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 2.41-37.fc40
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.0.5 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_wayland dm: SDDM
    Distro: Fedora Linux 40 (KDE Plasma)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: ASUS product: N/A v: N/A serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WIFI v: Rev 1.xx
    serial: <superuser required> part-nu: SKU UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1905
    date: 02/05/2024
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard ERGO K860
    serial: <filter> charge: 10% (should be ignored) status: discharging
  Device-2: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse MX Master 3
    serial: <filter> charge: 100% (should be ignored) status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: 16-core model: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 4
    rev: 2 cache: L1: 1024 KiB L2: 16 MiB L3: 64 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 705 high: 3680 min/max: 400/5881 cores: 1: 400 2: 400
    3: 400 4: 400 5: 400 6: 400 7: 3648 8: 400 9: 400 10: 3680 11: 400 12: 400
    13: 400 14: 400 15: 400 16: 400 17: 400 18: 400 19: 400 20: 400 21: 400
    22: 400 23: 400 24: 400 25: 400 26: 3660 27: 400 28: 400 29: 400 30: 400
    31: 400 32: 400 bogomips: 288014
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA AD102 [GeForce RTX 4090] vendor: Gigabyte driver: nvidia
    v: 550.78 arch: Lovelace pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none
    off: DP-2,DP-3,HDMI-A-2 empty: DP-4 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2684
  Device-2: AMD Raphael vendor: ASUSTeK driver: amdgpu v: kernel
    arch: RDNA-2 pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none
    empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1,Writeback-1 bus-ID: 12:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:164e
    temp: 47.0 C
  Device-3: Logitech Logitech Webcam C925e driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
    type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-5:3 chip-ID: 046d:085b
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.20.14 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.0
    compositor: kwin_wayland driver: N/A d-rect: 4752x2330 display-ID: 0
  Monitor-1: DP-2 pos: top-right res: 1680x1050 size: N/A
  Monitor-2: DP-3 pos: bottom-l res: 3072x1280 size: N/A
  API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 1 drv: radeonsi
    device: 3 drv: swrast surfaceless: drv: nvidia wayland: drv: nvidia x11:
    drv: zink inactive: gbm,device-2
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 550.78
    glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090/PCIe/SSE2
    display-ID: :0.0
  API: Vulkan v: 1.3.283 surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland device: 0
    type: discrete-gpu driver: N/A device-ID: 10de:2684 device: 1
    type: integrated-gpu driver: N/A device-ID: 1002:164e device: 2 type: cpu
    driver: N/A device-ID: 10005:0000
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA AD102 High Definition Audio vendor: Gigabyte
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:22ba
  Device-2: AMD Rembrandt Radeon High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 12:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1640
  Device-3: Logitech Logitech Webcam C925e driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
    type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-5:3 chip-ID: 046d:085b
  Device-4: Audient EVO4 driver: snd-usb-audio type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-5.1.1:7 chip-ID: 2708:0006
  Device-5: Shure MV5 driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB
    rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-5.1.3:9 chip-ID: 14ed:1000
  Device-6: ASUSTek USB Audio driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
    type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-6:4 chip-ID: 0b05:1a52
  API: ALSA v: k6.8.11-300.fc40.x86_64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.7 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: Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX210/AX1675 2x2 [Typhoon Peak] driver: iwlwifi
    v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 09:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2725
  IF: wlp9s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter driver: r8152 type: USB
    rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-5.4.1:8 chip-ID: 0bda:8153
  IF: enp16s0u5u4u1 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-3: Realtek RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter driver: r8152 type: USB
    rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-5.4.2:10 chip-ID: 0bda:8153
  IF: enp16s0u5u4u2 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: docker0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX210 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-9:4 chip-ID: 8087:0032
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.3
    lmp-v: 12
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 4.61 TiB used: 625.19 GiB (13.3%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital model: WD BLACK SN850X 1000GB
    size: 931.51 GiB speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 47.9 C
  ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 vendor: Western Digital model: WD BLACK SN850X 1000GB
    size: 931.51 GiB speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 44.9 C
  ID-3: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: HUA723030ALA640 size: 2.73 TiB
    speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
  ID-4: /dev/sdb vendor: Patriot model: N/A size: 58.88 GiB type: USB
    rev: 3.0 spd: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 serial: <filter>
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 399.98 GiB used: 329.11 GiB (82.3%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0
    mapped: luks-ce42ef51-0cb3-41a1-bbdf-baf289274a95
  ID-2: /boot size: 4.84 GiB used: 513.4 MiB (10.4%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
  ID-3: /boot/efi size: 4.99 GiB used: 45.7 MiB (0.9%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 48 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4
  ID-2: swap-2 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
    dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 50.1 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 48.0 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Memory: total: 32 GiB note: est. available: 30.55 GiB used: 9.26 GiB (30.3%)
  Processes: 658 Power: uptime: 1h 13m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 255
    target: graphical (5) default: graphical
  Packages: pm: flatpak pkgs: 22 Compilers: clang: 18.1.6 gcc: 14.1.1
    Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 running-in: terminator inxi: 3.3.34

This is waiting on a new version of the nvidia drivers to fix explicit sync support.
The 555 driver is in beta testing, there is an rpmfusion build for rawhide I understand.

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@barryascott Thank you.
@computersavvy Do you have any information about my other problems?

It is always best to open a thread for each specific problem so that particular problem can be identified and addressed individually without confusion as to what comment may address which problem.

Please do so then we can work on each problem one at a time.

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