On Sun, Jan 05, 2025 at 09:07:09AM -0500, Anil F Duggirala wrote: > Thank you both for your instructions. I have followed the exact > instructions as proposed by Oli and have managed to successfully > install and load the nvidia driver. > > However, apparently I am now stuck in an X session instead of the > Wayland session I had before. > > I have followed the additional instruction here > https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Debian_12_.22Bookworm.22 > and have run the command: > echo "options nvidia-drm modeset=1" >> /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia- > options.conf > > and now, cat /sys/module/nvidia_drm/parameters/modeset, outputs: Y > > My laptop has both and integrated card and the Nvidia card. I have read > the instructions here: > https://wiki.debian.org/NVIDIA%20Optimus#PRIMEOffload > > I don't really understand the second paragraph there, where it says > that it should just work out of the box but also recommends some > additional steps. Should I uninstall the xserver-xorg-video-intel > package as suggested there? > > Should I be getting an option to select Wayland instead of Xorg at > login? I'm not sure I had that option before.
This seems to be a known issue with NVIDIA, there is a udev rule that disables Wayland, why that is so I have no idea. See for example: https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=789215#p789215 https://superuser.com/questions/1859733/how-do-i-force-wayland-on-in-linux-when-using-nvidia-proprietary-drivers Try disabling that gdm-runtime-config line in that udev file, reboot and see if that helps. HTH Oli
