Hi,
What are the chances that when Debian Trixie is released it will include packaged Nvidia proprietary 560 drivers (these drivers are currently in beta) ? Judging by my own experiences, Debian Bookworm and Trixie, is that the currently packaged Nvidia proprietary drivers (535) do not support Wayland or Steam 3D action games. If I am incorrect please tell me which Debian package to install, and in what circumstances the above is possible. My guess is that Nvidia software development support for Wayland and Linux is still changing, and whether that change is completed by the time Trixie is frozen or released, I am not sure? I would assume (but it is only a guess), that 1) Nvidia 560 drivers finally support Linux Wayland and 3D gaming, and 2) once Nvidia 560 drivers are no longer in beta, they will be updated into the current Debian stable packaged Nvidia proprietary drivers. Am I correct ? Or way too hopeful? My above assumptions are based on comments from the Internet, and my testing as described below. The Nvidia graphics card I am currently testing with is a GeForce RTX 2070. (on an Intel i5 2nd Gen CPU and motherboard, 1920x1080 display) This PC is currently dual booting Debian Trixie KDE (with Debian packaged Nvidia 535 drivers), and Fedora 21 Gnome since yesterday when I installed Fedora 41 Gnome and then installed the "NVIDIA Linux Graphics Driver" (rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver) from the "Sofware" app. With Debian Trixie KDE I can only log into KDE with X11, when I try to log in with Wayland, the login fails and returns to the SDDM login screen. With Fedora 41 (running Nvidia 560 beta drivers), it is running Wayland, and in Steam I can run the 3D game "Planet Crafter" smoothly as I would on Windows. I found this quote, though about 6 months old, seems to explain the same as I experience: "Nvidia 555 is the beta and plays pretty well with wayland which provides explicit sync. I would recommend waiting for 560 which should release next month or so.". George. Another useful post on the Internet "The easiest way is to run xwininfo in a terminal - then when you hover over an xwayland window the mouse pointer will turn into a + sign.". Information: # lspci -n -n -k | grep -A 2 -e VGA -e 3D 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation TU106 [GeForce RTX 2070 Rev. A] [10de:1f07] (rev a1) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:8784] Kernel driver in use: nvidia $ glxinfo | grep -i vendor server glx vendor string: SGI client glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation [Fedora 41] $ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 560.35.03 Fri Aug 16 21:39:15 UTC 2024 GCC version: gcc version 14.2.1 20240912 (Red Hat 14.2.1-3) (GCC) [Debian KDE] $ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 535.183.06 Wed Jun 26 06:46:07 UTC 2024 GCC version: gcc version 14.2.0 (Debian 14.2.0-8) (after installing updates version went to ...535.216.01) --------------------------- Nvidia Beta drivers https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/230225/en-us/ Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver Version: 560.28.03 BETA https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/224751/en-us/ Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver Version: 555.42.02 BETA Release Date: 2024.5.21 GeForce RTX 20 Series: GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER, GeForce RTX 2080, GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER, GeForce RTX 2070, GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER, GeForce RTX 2060 --------------------------------------- Nvidia Production drivers for GeForce RTX 2070 | Linux 64-bit: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/results/ Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver Driver Version:550.135 Release Date:Tue Nov 19, 2024 File Size:307.35 MB Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver Driver Version:550.127.05 Release Date:Tue Oct 22, 2024 File Size:307.14 MB Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver Driver Version:535.216.01 Release Date:Tue Oct 22, 2024 File Size:341.87 MB ------------------------------------------
