Fitzcarraldo
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 Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2019 2:33 am Post subject: NVIDIA GPU (not Optimus) with LightDM and Wayland |
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Do any of you happen to have a machine with an NVIDIA GPU (not Optimus) using the closed-source NVIDIA driver and the LightDM display manager? If so, can you launch a Wayland session from LightDM?
The reason I ask is the following:
One of my laptops has NVIDIA Optimus hardware. I don't use Bumblebee with it; I use either the Intel video driver alone or the closed-source NVIDIA driver alone (I have a couple of scripts to select which of the drivers I want to use, and I logout and login again to switch). I use the LightDM display manager to login to the KDE Plasma Desktop (because I could not get SDDM to work).
When using the Intel video driver, I can select a Wayland session in LightDM and login successfully to a KDE Plasma Desktop. LightDM itself is in an X11 session, but Plasma is launched in a Wayland session (XDG_SESSION_TYPE is "wayland").
When using the NVIDIA driver and LightDM is not running, I can use a couple of commands in a VT (TTY1 or whatever) to launch a Wayland session running KDE Plasma (XDG_SESSION_TYPE is "wayland").
When using the NVIDIA driver, it is not possible to launch a Wayland session from LightDM. I enter the password to login but nothing happens. I assume -- but am not sure -- this is because, in the case of Optimus hardware, in order to display the LightDM greeter when the NVIDIA closed-source driver is used, LightDM needs a display setup script:
| Code: | $ grep display-setup-script /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
display-setup-script=/etc/X11/Sessions/plasma
$ cat /etc/X11/Sessions/plasma
#!/bin/bash
GPU=`eselect opengl list | grep \* | awk '{ print $2 }'`
if [ "$GPU" = "nvidia" ]; then
xrandr --setprovideroutputsource modesetting NVIDIA-0
xrandr --auto
fi |
Am I missing something? Is it really impossible to use LightDM to launch a Wayland session when using the NVIDIA closed-source driver with Optimus hardware?
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