On Thursday, 21-11-2024 at 01:06 Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 05:15:47PM +1100, George at Clug wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I am using Nvidia 535.146.02 on Debian 12 (bookworm) with Wayland and
> GNOME. I don't play many action games, but Dwarf Fortress and Factorio
> work fine for me via Steam.
Andy, Since you said that "Nvidia 535.146.02 on Debian 12" was working for you,
tonight I tested and found that Steam game Planet Crafter worked well (smooth
movement) on my test Debian Trixie, KDE, X11 (not Wayland) with Debian packaged
Nvidia proprietary drivers version 535.216.01 using an RTX 2070 on an i5 PC. I
am pleased and impressed. Sometime ago this had not worked for me in Bookworm.
I do not recall what version of drivers were used back then.
I assume if I were to install the 560 beta drivers Wayland for KDE would work,
but that is only a guess unless I manually installed the drivers to prove this.
Since my goal is to see standard packaged drivers from Debian repositories
deliver a working solution without manual changes, it is unlikely I will bother
as once 560 drivers reach production and are packaged, I expect all will work
with just Debian packaged Nvidia proprietary drivers.
At this point in time with the 535 drivers, what I cannot do is log into KDE
when selecting Wayland. Attempting to do so returns me back to the log on
screen. I can log in when selecting X11.
$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 535.216.01 Tue Sep 17 16:54:04
UTC 2024
GCC version: gcc version 14.2.0 (Debian 14.2.0-8)
>
> I did install the Nvidia drivers from nvidia themselves, not as a Debian
> package.
>
> My GPU is a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti.
A very nice card.
George.
>
> Thanks,
> Andy
>
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