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dgiglio

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Registered: 2024-02-17

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Open nvidia drivers only use Mesa as renderer

No matter what, I was unable to configure correctly the open nvidia drivers (v550). I almost followed this https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers which is pretty old.
The only way I was able to use nvidia drivers was availing to the closed version. But now I'm struggling to make Wayland run.
Any clue?
Thanks in advance

kapqa

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Registered: 2019-01-02

Posts: 474  

Re: Open nvidia drivers only use Mesa as renderer

which graphics card are you trying to get to function with wayland?

dgiglio

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Registered: 2024-02-17

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Re: Open nvidia drivers only use Mesa as renderer

This is my nvidia-smi output

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 550.163.01             Driver Version: 550.163.01     CUDA Version: N/A      |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                        |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti     Off |   00000000:08:00.0  On |                  N/A |
| 41%   30C    P8             10W /  120W |      18MiB /   6144MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
                                                                                         
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                              GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|  No running processes found                                                             |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

And this is glxinfo -B

name of display: :0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
    Vendor: Mesa (0xffffffff)
    Device: llvmpipe (LLVM 19.1.7, 256 bits) (0xffffffff)
    Version: 25.0.7
    Accelerated: no
    Video memory: 32012MB
    Unified memory: yes
    Preferred profile: core (0x1)
    Max core profile version: 4.5
    Max compat profile version: 4.5
    Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
    Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.2
Memory info (GL_ATI_meminfo):
    VBO free memory - total: 31 MB, largest block: 31 MB
    VBO free aux. memory - total: 28303 MB, largest block: 28303 MB
    Texture free memory - total: 31 MB, largest block: 31 MB
    Texture free aux. memory - total: 28303 MB, largest block: 28303 MB
    Renderbuffer free memory - total: 31 MB, largest block: 31 MB
    Renderbuffer free aux. memory - total: 28303 MB, largest block: 28303 MB
Memory info (GL_NVX_gpu_memory_info):
    Dedicated video memory: 380161 MB
    Total available memory: 412173 MB
    Currently available dedicated video memory: 31 MB
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa
OpenGL renderer string: llvmpipe (LLVM 19.1.7, 256 bits)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.5 (Core Profile) Mesa 25.0.7-2
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.50
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile

OpenGL version string: 4.5 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 25.0.7-2
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.50
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL profile mask: compatibility profile

OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.2 Mesa 25.0.7-2
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.20

kapqa

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Registered: 2019-01-02

Posts: 474  

Re: Open nvidia drivers only use Mesa as renderer

if you use a newer graphics card (as ur info suggest), then you should have not problem with wayland.
however, my experience on kubuntu was that on 24.04/24.10 it would not function as desired; wayland support was just experiementela but with 25.04/25.10 there was very good wayland support,
so maybe it has also a bit to do with the OS you are using and daedalus 5.0 may be too old for good wayland?

you are   to closed driver, you can search the forum , there are quite some topic about nvidia, and people are more knowledgeable about it. i think nvidia made it bit more confusing on installing nvidia drivers with the nameing scheme lately, but that should not be the issue.