Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> writes: > Is it just me or is wayland nowhere near primetime? > > I did a switchover to systemd/wayland some time ago and it seemed to solve > some > problems I had. > > The problem is it also came with so many more issues than it fixed: > > 1. Logins don't work reliably. I use KDE/SDDM and when logging in it appears > to > start on a new VT and sometime it doesn't start. Or it will start the new VT > and fail to switch to it, leaving a text console and a blinking cursor. This > didn't happen when using X11.
hmm, please check journalctl / the wayland session log. I've never seen that and it more likely than not indicates KWin or SDDM crashing. > 2. Sometimes video hardware acceleration just doesn't work. Now I do have a > discrete nVidia card with the proprietary driver, but I switched to nouveau > and > it didn't work either. Again, not an issue in X11. > > I have a nVidia RTX 3070 Ti. I'd expect the proprietary driver to work better. what kind of hardware acceleration do you mean however? 3D acceleration always worked for me but I don't recall if I tried video acceleration > 3. I sleep/resume a lot, wayland seems to be quite buggy on resume. As in, the > other three issues listed here are far more likely to occur after a > sleep/resume, but they do happen even after rebooting and being on the PC most > of the day. this is IIRC a bug in nvidia drivers, I've had it happen on my desktop PC (1050Ti), but never on my AMDGPU desktop or Intel laptop. > 4. This is the big one, the panel in KDE hangs intermittently. The clock will > freeze and the entire panel is unresponsive (but weirdly enough, KDE doesn't > realize it's not responding.) I've tried killing and restarting the process > and > that doesn't always fix it either as it becomes disconnected with any open > processes and it's not possible to resolve. Either have to logout or reboot. 'plasmashell --replace' always fixed this on my nvidia machine. I've never been able to reproduce it off of it. decently sure that's https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469016 though (check, please, and let the devs know if it isn't) > I've switched back to X11 for now and have been using it for over a week. I > managed to figure out how to set up multimonitor for now (both on the KDE > desktop and in SDDM) and I haven't had any of these issues. For the record, I > typically use the computer a few times a day during the week and sleep/resume, > and longer on weekends. > > After much googling and experimenting, I can't seem to make these issues go > away... which got me wondering if someone else has experienced any of these. > > I have done hardware tests (load testing, RAM tests, etc) - all are clear. it is unlikely to be a hw fault - nvidia drivers are quite bad, especially at wayland, since nvidia mostly cares about compute on linux. on nvidia hw, using X is often the better choice unfortunately. hope that helps, have a lovely day. -- Arsen Arsenović
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