This is something I have been stuck on for a while.
I want to use Wayland for that variable refresh rate and some better handeling of screen recordings.
I have tried time and time again to get a wayland session running with the proprietary nvidia driver, but have not gotten there yet.
Only the X11 options are listed on the login screen. When using the fallback FOSS nvidia driver however, all the correct X11 and Wayland options show up (Including Gnome and KDE, both in X11 and Wayland).
Wasn’t this fixed, like, about a year ago? I have the “latest” proprietary nvidia driver, but the current debain one is still pretty old (535.183.06).
output from nvidia-smi
Sun Oct 27 03:21:06 2024
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 535.183.06 Driver Version: 535.183.06 CUDA Version: 12.2 |
|-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|=========================================+======================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Off | 00000000:01:00.0 On | N/A |
| 25% 43C P0 25W / 120W | 476MiB / 6144MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=======================================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 6923 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 143MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 7045 C+G ...libexec/gnome-remote-desktop-daemon 63MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 7096 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 81MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 7798 G firefox-esr 167MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 7850 G /usr/lib/huiontablet/huiontablet 13MiB |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
From what I can tell, Nvidia drivers only started to git gud at doing Wayland around version 555.
Fair, but they supported it a bit before that too I think. Like, they allowed it to show up in the login.