Trying out gnome-wayland with nvidia graphics on Ubuntu 17.04?
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Posted Apr 14, 2017, 12:43 AM UTC
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The launchpad bug references a gnome bugzilla bug report for the same issue. I added my experience to the gnome bugzilla report.
edit: Following all the steps listed in the bugzilla report at this point now enables me to use the Gnome on Wayland session
- Modify "/etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-graphics-drivers.conf" entry "options nvidia_381_drm modeset=0" to "options nvidia_381_drm modeset=1"
- Run "sudo update-initramfs -u"
- Reboot
The major caveat being that doing the above will break your Xorg login sessions.
Nevertheless, big thanks to jbicha and Igor Ingultsov for their help in getting it working!
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In trying out the wayland session, I noticed one annoyance, and one dealbreaker issue:
- gnome-terminal had big frame around the application, seemingly unrelated to its window decorations.
- GL apps didn't seem to work, or at least not the couple of steam apps I tried
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Using NVIDIA proprietary drivers with GNOME on Wayland is not supported yet in Ubuntu. See comment 2 at bug 1672033.
Comment 18 from that thread suggests that modifying /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-graphics-drivers.conf to change "options nvidia_381_drm modeset=0" to "options nvidia_381_drm modeset=1" should fix it, but that didn't seem to work for me.
In my case, version 381 of the driver doesn't appear to be available and I actually have 375, so maybe that somehow factors into it.
I'll play with it a little bit more.
edit: Grabbed the 381 drivers from https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa, and that didn't seem to do anything, either.