Pro: My two biggest annoyances when using Wayland got fixed, which were no color temperature adjustments (Night light) and no G-Sync.
Con: Games now display frames out of order, making them unplayable.
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Added support for virtual reality displays, such as the SteamVR platform, on Wayland compositors that support DRM leasing.
it's getting to the point now where I may only need to boot into wendoze from a pendrive to install BIOS updates
Why do that? Can't you just put the BIOS update on the USB drive and just update through the BIOS itself? That's what I do, and I find it much safer than doing it through Windows because a Windows update happening could ruin everything (and since I rarely boot into Windows, that's a pretty high chance of happening).
Some motherboard vendors may not distribute them that way, but if they do, that's my preferred route.
laptop bios updates are usually .exe files if the stock build ships with wendoze on it. I don't make the rules unfortunately. you have an old dell or lenovo that you converted to a linux machine, you have to deal with the devil occasionally.
just run windows to go off a pendrive and you don't have to worry about it stinking up your default drive and taking up valuable space.
Looks like this might fix Starfield, which is great since I have been waiting for a fix so that I could play it
Now just need to wait until it's in the repo.. Arch is usually pretty quick so possibly I'll be testing this out later today.
EDIT: it's available in nvidia-beta, installing!
Confirmed, Starfield now works for me
Awesome! Now I just need to figure out how to get it on Pop-os
How is NVIDIA for Wayland? I heard that previously it was an absolute nightmare, but I have Sway setup on my laptop and I'm wondering if it's time to switch my desktop too.
I'm just coming back to Linux after a 5 years break. Ive gone the latest Fedora on my laptop and if I understood it right it's using Wayland on GNOME. I have the Nvidia drivers installed from the store, so no external repos or command line trickery, everything went smoothly and honestly the whole OS works better and visual glitches were gone instantly. Honestly the whole experience is vastly upgraded compared to the last time I used Linux. When bringing gaming to the equation I am honestly impressed with the current state of Proton, I tried a few heavy games where I'd expect all sorts of weird graphical glitches if they were running on wine back in the day and for my surprise they work absolutely fine and even better than on Windows, like No Man's Sky, Risk of Rain 2. The only thing not right is having 2 monitors with different scales or just having a high dpi screen in general, sometimes apps don't scale right, so I just changed the resolution.
All in all really a fantastic experience so far.
Added beta-quality support for GeForce and Workstation GPUs to open kernelmodules. Please see the "Open Linux Kernel Modules" chapter in the README for details.
This is stated in the README at https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/545.23.06/README/kernel_open.html:
Use of the open kernel modules on GeForce and Workstation GPUs should be considered Beta quality in this release and no longer requires setting of the "NVreg_OpenRmEnableUnsupportedGpus" nvidia.ko kernel module parameter. The open kernel modules are suitable for broad usage, and NVIDIA requests feedback on any issues encountered that are specific to them.
Seems pretty interesting, but I'm not pretty sure if when they state geforce they mean for example 1000 series of gpus.
Does this fix the RTX 20XX (Super) crashes in cyberpunk 2077? Did anyone test it?
Edit: Now that I had some time I tested the beta driver on Arch Linux using an RTX 2080 Super and I am only getting a black screen or it crashes immediately depending on the flags I use. So the beta driver made it worse than before and it is still unplayable.
I also want to know this
I updated my post with my own results. tldr: it doesn't work at all
This driver broke VRR in both Xorg and Wayland for me. Anyone else seeing this?
Nvidia graphics drivers, that's really living on the edge...