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[-] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

What the.... they're working so fast!!!! At this pace, NVK could probably equal, if not surpass the proprietary drivers by the end of the year!

Only 1 question: how will that affect Wayland support for Nvidia?

I'm an AMD user, but I'm curious.

[-] Atemu@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago

It does not directly affect wayland support in any way unless you're using one of those experimental Wayland in Vulkan modes.

It does affect it indirectly insofar as that, with NVK, you're able to use the nouveau kernel module which exposes standardised interfaces that Wayland relies on without losing the ability to do Vulkan which was not possible previously. If you wanted Vulkan previously, you had to use Nvidia's proprietary driver and its non-standard interfaces that cause issues with Wayland.

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 8 months ago

It does not directly affect wayland support in any way unless you're using one of those experimental Wayland in Vulkan modes.

Doesn't Zink on NVK support fully compliant OpenGL 4.6?

[-] Atemu@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

Yes but I don't see how that's related to Wayland as nouveau (mesa OGL) is also capable of driving apps inside a modern desktop.

[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

I think their are plans to switch to Zink on NVK to reduce the maintenance efforts

[-] Atemu@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago
[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

Yeah:

For OpenGL support, we are still expecting Zink + NVK to be the plan going forward

[-] luci_tired@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Ive been trying out nouveau with mesa 24.1, wayland seems better than last time I tried it out on proprietary nvidia drivers. Only issue I've notice is that mouse movement feels weird and performance drops when you move the mouse.

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