Wayland everything is slow and delayed.

hjkl

Hi there,

I just switched from X to wayland but as I boot up everything slows down. My keyboard preses are delayed, same with applications opening and also when switching ascross monitors.

I'm using the nouveau driver.

I just tested this on Arch Linux too and It was very smooth and I had no issues.

.config: https://0x0.st/-V33.txt

Sway config: https://0x0.st/-V3Y.txt

emerge --info: http://0x0.st/-V3E.txt

package.use: https://0x0.st/-VY-.use

package.accept_keywords: https://0x0.st/-VYK.accept_

heres the stderr and stdout: https://0x0.st/-VYq.log

Thanks.
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CPlusPanda · n00b Joined: 24 Jul 2021 Posts: 1

Same problem here, although on a fresh install instead

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2021 12:51 pm Post subject:

Ionen · Developer Joined: 06 Dec 2018 Posts: 2719

This typically mean it's running in software-only mode without hardware acceleration (nearly unusable last I tried).

Would imply missing drivers or bad settings (such as on mesa, so the above post may be of interest).

Unlike nvidia-drivers, nouveau should technically work as expected assuming set VIDEO_CARDS=nouveau (notably for mesa), and the kernel module is working. Not that nouveau is that great performance-wise (albeit shouldn't be _that_ bad), and mileage may vary depending on the card.

hjkl · Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2021 1:14 pm Post subject:

This was the case because nouveau was built in.

It has to be built as module in the kernel.
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Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21633

Nouveau built-in should work fine. If changing to a module fixed it, my first guess would be that you need firmware for the card, that the firmware is not available early enough when you use a built-in, but that the firmware is available by the time modules load. If you want to use a built-in driver, you need to build into the kernel the required firmware too. dmesg should tell you what firmware was used. CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE + CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR will let you put the firmware into the kernel. Note that each firmware blob mentioned in dmesg must be mentioned verbatim in CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE. If extra path qualifiers are used, the kernel will fail to recognize at load time that it has the blob it needs, because the name does not match exactly.

Ionen · Developer Joined: 06 Dec 2018 Posts: 2719

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2021 4:54 pm Post subject:

Ionen · Developer Joined: 06 Dec 2018 Posts: 2719

hjkl · Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2021 5:44 pm Post subject:

Ionen · Developer Joined: 06 Dec 2018 Posts: 2719

hjkl · Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2021 6:01 pm Post subject:

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2021 6:46 pm Post subject:

hjkl · Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2021 6:49 pm Post subject:

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2021 7:18 pm Post subject:

Too bad, it's not one of those cards that Nouveau has working for power management (clock speed among other things)

Is it still slow as a module?
If so then the only real alternative is nvidia drivers which should work if running the latest wayland/wlroots/xwayland/etc.
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hjkl · Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2021 7:36 pm Post subject:

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2021 7:43 pm Post subject:

hjkl · Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2021 7:47 pm Post subject:

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2021 8:31 pm Post subject:

hjkl · Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2021 9:51 am Post subject:

hjkl · Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2021 9:55 am Post subject:

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2021 10:17 am Post subject:

I hadn't looked, it seems that the firmware for the later nvidia cards is provided by sys-kernel/linux-firmware

your card should be a gp106, /lib/firmware/nvidia/gp106
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