A new software engineering student. I thought I'll sit this out as NVIDIA said they support GBM and Sway does run well with GBM. Are you sure you want to create this branch? privacy statement. Usage [Linux: OpenSuse Tumbleweed] I did not bother troubleshooting too far as it was a beta driver and I did not feel like putting in the time at that point. This time software could run, which was a definite improvement. Sign in Add noscanout to fix graphical glitches in certain games, A discussion on the NVIDIA forums for everyone sharing hacks to getting sway to work. As mentioned earlier, graphical issues were not present. UPDATE2: grim is not working: The flicker seems to disappear when you run the git version of sway with WLR_RENDERER=vulkan. So this wasnt usable either. If nothing happens, download Xcode and try again. Better than before, but not good enough. I found an interesting detail by running VS Code without HW acceleration, it keeps flickering. There is no reason why this should be necessary, glFlush introduces a synchronization barrier, which is supposed to be waited on by the buffer consumer via implicit synchronization. Already on GitHub? Also the previous window would be frozen until the new one closed. As for the laptop, thats now running as my only computer since I lack a GPU for my desktop for now. It probably won't - here is rejected PR with the same change from mid-august: Well, as you explained this introduces a blocking call which waits for GPU operations to complete. However, it did not run properly. I cloned wlroots-git from AUR, added a line in build, and then build the package : The code replaces glFlush with glFinish in render/gles2/renderer.c before building. I might change compositors, though, as I only used this one as the first pick due to easy configuration. After latest Steam client update, my screen is flickering when I run any Steam game in Big Picture mode via Nvidia Shield Gamestream to my TV. However, Nvidia has improved its support in recent times. Like Cardboard, but with wallpaper on the screen instead of a blank color. The desktop just loads fine but I keep graphical glitches and flickering when the content of application windows updates. This is very much a performance regression. This is strange, because on 515.48.07 everything worked perfectly. Many Git commands accept both tag and branch names, so creating this branch may cause unexpected behavior. I have also configured it to do mostly what I want. I thus gave up on Sway and decided to try GNOME instead as GNOME had been supported for a long time. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER. It also supports EGLStreams, so it shouldnt have the graphical issues of wlroots compositors. I write about technology, software, FOSS and Linux. This was annoying, so I disabled all of those icons except the volume one as I could not close that one by itself for some reason. It is important to note, this is not a Blizzard problem, but an nVidia problem. However, there were a whole lot of graphical issues, such as flickering all over the place. There is the Nouveau driver, which is an alternative open-source Nvidia driver, but Ill discuss that later, too. I first tried Wayland back when I was using Gentoo shortly after the 495 drivers were released into beta in Portages repositories as I felt like it might be functional at this point. Also the cursor is invisible. Whereas the open-source drivers for Intel and AMD had implemented support for the GBM API, which is the more standard approach, Nvidia chose to go with the less used EGLStreams API. external monitor is detected, enabling it results in, firefox crashes when started with `MOZ_WAYLAND_ENABLE=1, external monitor would turn on, enabling the laptops monitor would result in a similar error, kitty starts up, although with glitches and artiacts. For a long time, Nvidia has been far behind in terms of Wayland compatibility when compared to AMD or Intel. KDE has never been a good experience for me on the Nvidia card. 3. However, since Octobter/November there has not been any progress on Sway or wlroots in general it seems. Right click on the desktop, " Nvidia Control Panel". You signed in with another tab or window. If I tried to run more than one window of Firefox, it would typically freeze and close after a little bit. Invisible cursor and flickering in wlroots based compositors. But this is nothing compared to the Wayland version. This thing really does like to cause me problems. Re: X11 and Wayland show flickering/artifacts after . I have always had to set things up a lot to get it work even remotely acceptably, but under X11 it was always usable after that initial setting up process. I decided to begin with Sway. Did it really not work for you? Had to kill it in another TTY. In the left panel, make sure "Manage 3D Settings" is selected. Offline #2 2021-04-24 08:44:30. seth Member Registered: 2012-09-03 Posts: 32,368. Its another tiling compositor. Thanks to this support, XWayland can now provide decent performance. Tracking internally in bug 3707157. After rebooting the system and starting sway, the UI is flickering (very similar to this post from a few days ago). This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository, and may belong to a fork outside of the repository. It may also be the case that vulkan-validation-layers are required to use the vulkan backend. It is a hack, but it works so far. wlroots based compositors (including sway) does not work well with NVIDIA. I wonder what's the difference when comparing wlroots to the Gnome compositor. Not quite as nice as a proper WM, but not bad at all. Trovlak-aggramar (Trovlak) October 18, 2021, 10:33pm #12. Screen refresh rate and such also did not give me any problems either. Invisible cursor and flickering in wlroots based compositors. Traditionally, we have been using XOrg, or X11 in its current iteration, as the standard display server in Linux. The only desktops or compositors properly supporting EGLStreams are GNOME and KDE. No Firefox new window issues whatsoever. sway and any proprietary NVIDIA driver is required (although this probably includes their new open kernel modules, I I chose this as the final attempt. I got a bit annoyed with the (albeit short) delay whenever you launch dmenu / bemenu / rofi, so I've tried fairly hard to make tofi start up as . The flicker seems to disappear when you run the git version of sway with WLR_RENDERER=vulkan. I thought I'll sit this out as NVIDIA said they support GBM and Sway does run well with GBM. Helper files to make sway a better experience for us poor NVIDIA users. sway now identifies that we are trying to run it with NVIDIA's proprietary driver and tries to avoid it. While I was fine with the performance, there was another issue. Hi, I have just got a Lenovo X1 Extreme Gen 4 laptop, it has an Intel iGPU and a dedicated Nvidia 3050Ti. I.e., without WLR_RENDERER=vulkan. https://i0.wp.com/windows11tools.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/image-17.png?resize=640%2C254&ssl=1, https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/issues/3290, [Wayland] Cursor disappearing when displaying any application. I can even run OBS now, although I have not figured out getting screen capture working yet, I should figure that out eventually. Not much else to say. I managed to get Chromium working on Vulkan, and its also doing the same thing. Firstly I tried Wayfire. Tutorial: Using Azure Event Hubs with the Dapr framework, 0 backend code contact form in 5 minutes with discord webhooks, PhpStorm: Tasks & Contexts with Your Git Branches, Query JSON data in SQL Server and Synapse Analytics. So, one workaround is : In case one has a login manager (like SDDM or GDM), modify /usr/share/wayland-sessions/sway.desktop such that one ends up with Exec=sway --my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia While it ran, it had some issues. There was a problem preparing your codespace, please try again. My graphics card has been a RTX 2070 Super that I have had since long before I even tried Linux. Telegram with OpenGL disabled works as expected. Me too,my arch upgrade 515.57 vulkan isn't working. I now run NixOS, but that should not affect Wayland much. Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community. If you want to install this on another distro, you can clone and install the files manually, Sway is still required if you're installing. How about other compositors? I have seen this one pop up on the unixporn reddit occasionally. Sawy isn't expected to work with NVIDIA drivers and this is noted right at the start of the sway wiki page: Note: All proprietary graphics drivers are not supported, including NVIDIA. Secondly, I had to launch Sway with their unsupported GPU launch flag nonsense. So maybe that's an Ampere issue? Unfortunately seems that the external display outputs are directly connected to the Nvidia GPU, therefore if I disable the Nvidia GPU I can only use the laptop display, no external/attached one, with the Intel GPU. There is also an EGLStreams compatible modification of wlroots called wlroots-eglstreams, though, which allowed more compositors (a compositor being the equivalent of a window manager/desktop), but I do not know how well that works. If this package doesn't work on your PC, it's a good idea to see if anyone over there has a similar setup. Just a bar, but none of the app menu or activities view stuff. NVIDIA GBM flickering and graphical glitches with Sway. By clicking Sign up for GitHub, you agree to our terms of service and The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: Thank you for the bug report. Thus I went to Xorg for a few months. If nothing happens, download GitHub Desktop and try again. The desktop runs on a RTX 3080. I customized GNOME to be more usable for me. Once again no config I could figure out fixed it. same with amdgpu if sway use vulkan renderer. Configuring the output changed nothing. You either need to switch to the open source drivers or use a compositor that uses the EGLStreams API. Chromium, VS Code, Kitty, Telegrams picture/video previews. The UI worked with nice shortcuts and all that. UPDATE: Cursor sometimes freezes with WLR_RENDERER=vulkan They are, however, not great with modern Nvidia cards. There are a ton more, but shortcuts worked well. sway-nvidia. Install sway with the latest NVIDIA drivers and run cat /dev/urandom in the terminal to see the artifacts. People with nVidia GPU's and the latest nVidia drivers experience flickering/flashing in certain areas. Driver 495 finally brought along support for the more common GBM API. Here, not so much. The driver version 470 brought along hardware acceleration for XWayland, which is a compatibility layer of sorts for running X11 software on Wayland. The compositor worked, but it had its caveats. Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11. Install sway with the latest NVIDIA drivers and run cat /dev/urandom in the terminal to see the artifacts. commits. Have a question about this project? Hi all, In a similar vein to greetd-mini-wl-greeter, I've recently written tofi, an extremely fast dmenu / program launcher for Sway and other wlroots-based compositors, using raw Wayland.It's pretty minimal, but still theme-able enough to be pretty. Another blank screen, but did not lock up my keyboard. This one went beyond a blank screen. Coding, Tutorials, News, UX, UI and much more related to development. Last edited by Trilby (2021-07-23 12:39:59) "UNIX is simple . Work fast with our official CLI. Sway (contracted from SirCmpwn's Wayland compositor ) is a compositor for Wayland designed to be fully compatible with i3.According to the official website: . driver 515.65.01 I haven't tested it yet. Hopefully it gets officially fixed in wlroot soon. It started with the release of new drivers, nVidia then fixed it, and then broke it again. Learn more. If you're using ArchLinux, the package is available in the AUR as sway-nvidia. I adjusted the output to my screens refresh rate (240Hz) in the config and it did not help at all. I had no flickering issues and apps ran, with a caveat: I was never able to run OBS on Wayland with my Nvidia card. I am by no means a professional, so I just hope to enjoy some writing. The issue is being tracked here, A discussion on the NVIDIA forums for everyone sharing hacks to getting sway to work. In specific, Firefox. But I want to use it also for my gaming PC. sway and any proprietary NVIDIA driver is required (although this probably includes their new open kernel modules, I have not tested). I tried Sway as that is a very well-known Wayland compositor. My card was limited to its lowest clockspeed, so it was much slower than by stock. I even reinstalled Open Suse Tumbleweed, but that didn't help. On occasions the new window would actually work, though. Wayland is another display protocol that, from what I understand, aims to be more modern, compact and secure than X11. Anything above 60 Hz would cause the top half of my screen to just go black. Please fix it. Hopefully it gets officially fixed in wlroot soon. UPDATE: Cursor sometimes freezes with WLR_RENDERER=vulkan UPDATE2: grim is not working: the grim thing is wlroots/vulkan issue https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/issues/3290 It launched but only gave me a blank blue screen. Disabling animations did not help anything. 2. Any apps utilizing OpenGL flicker/show artifacts, i.e. I even sold my Nvidia card today since its now overkilled for my needs and bought a RX580 instead, so my desktop can have more proper support whenever I get that. I also tested with Gnome and no flickering is present. NVIDIA Developer Forums Flickering in sway with 515.57 nvidia driver Graphics / Linux Linux tsesst439f July 3, 2022, 10:49am #1 After upgrading the NVIDIA open source driver to version 515.57, I started seeing flickering. I can't figure the right place to push this issue forward. Anecdotally, Sway currently runs fine on our GBM path out of the box. While it did not have those issues, it had others. Describe the bug. I found a temporary solution from the hyprland wiki https://wiki.hyprland.org/Nvidia/. The Nouveau is third party open-source driver for Nvidia cards. A tag already exists with the provided branch name. I even reinstalled Arch Linux but that didn't help. The other issue I had was that the extensions that I used for the bar, dash to the panel and just perfection, had some sort of a conflict where the utility icons at the bottom would be placed horizontally whenever I rebuilt my NixOS config and relogged into the DE. Using Super and my wasd keys I could position windows on my screen. Please fix it. It works with your existing i3 configuration and supports most of i3's features, plus a few extras. to your account. GSP firmware is loaded (nvidia-smi -q | grep GSP). I could launch kitty (a terminal emulator) with Super and Enter and the app menu with Super and Escape. Here are screenshots of the desktop and the sirula app menu config that I have: Now that it was configured somewhat properly, it ended up being quite nice, mostly. Does anyone have an idea whats the root cause of this? Helper files to make sway a better experience for us poor NVIDIA users. My choice of compositor here was Wayfire. While the situation has improved a little for NVIDIA and Wayland, they're not really there yet and so NVIDIA are now keeping a public list of the issues split between drivers and either protocol or compositor limitations. NACK, sorry, this is a NVIDIA bug. The flickering seems not to occur on my laptop with an Geforce 1070. GitHub, Can you confirm that TKGs installer works in your test environment and does what you expect from your new GBM shared libraries? I am using Arch linux and has a 3080. I could not find any solution. Approximately 2 weeks ago I figured I could try Wayland again. This package doesn't replace sway. This is strange, because on 515.48.07 sway worked perfectly, there were no flickering. This might be weird for a standalone WM person like me, but it is possible to strip down GNOME quite a bit, so it was viable in itself. Under X11 it has stuttering issues. GSP firmware is loaded ( nvidia-smi -q | grep GSP ). For a long time, Nvidia has been far behind in terms of Wayland compatibility when compared to AMD or Intel. After updating the NVIDIA open source driver to version 515.57, I immediately had a frozen black screen issue during boot (see illustrative image in the link: https://i0.wp.com/windows11tools.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/image-17.png?resize=640%2C254&ssl=1). Use Git or checkout with SVN using the web URL. Well occasionally send you account related emails. If it didnt cause issues with Firefox, I would have been perfectly fine. It gave me the blank screen, but it also locked my keyboard, so I couldnt even go to another TTY and thus had to restart. I was able to run XWayland software, but nothing native. Finally install the package. Installation Dependencies. There were still issues that turned out to be rather major. " It's good to see the NVIDIA proprietary driver working fine with Sway on GBM.Sway previously supported a NVIDIA EGLStreams back-end but removed it in Sway 1.0. I tried all of the options in Wayfires config with many different refresh rates from 60 to 240, none of which helped. Firefox, on the other hand, is running perfectly with forced hardware acceleration through Webrender. This follows on from the huge splash they made recently with their new open source Linux GPU kernel modules, which also improved Wayland support a little too with the 515.43.. (cf. I decided to give other compositors a shot again. If starting from a shell, replace your sway command with the following: If you're starting from a display manager, select Sway (NVIDIA) from your wayland sessions list, Because we're using the experimental vulkan renderer to avoid graphical issues, screen capture is not yet implemented.
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