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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by unique_hemp@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Since nvidia drivers do not properly implement implicit sync, this protocol not existing is the root cause of flickering with nvidia graphics on Wayland. This MR being merged means that Wayland might finally be usable with nvidia graphics with the next driver release.

EDIT: Nvidia dev posted that support is planned in the 555 driver, with beta release planned for May 15: https://github.com/NVIDIA/egl-wayland/pull/104#issuecomment-2010292221

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[-] dandroid@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 months ago

How long does a change like this take to make it's way into Plasma 6?

[-] Communist@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/4693

there's already a non-draft implementation, if I had to guess a few weeks before it's merged, and then you have to wait for a release, and then your distro has to package it. So, it's gonna be a while.

BUT, I think much more importantly is when it is merged into xwayland

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/967

Which should be fairly soon!

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