Guide Given For Nvidia Driver Installation is not Distro Agnostic

[WasteOfO2]

A lot of distros deal with Nvidia drivers differently.

Although the wiki suggests using the nvidia-dkms drivers, distros like Fedora support in favour of akmods as opposed to dkms. Some distros may even provide drivers OOTB like how POP!_OS does it.

Some distro-specific installtions do the configurations for you, making some of the steps mentioned like the kernel mode setting completely redundant.

Clearly the steps mentioned for installation are not universal, and I understand it isn't practical atm to go out and write driver installation instructions for every distro separately.

It would be a better idea for someone with Nvidia drivers for Wayland to actually experiment with this and help out with the wiki.

I do have a computer with Nvidia, but for personal reasons I am staying away from it for atleast 1-2 months

This issue should only be a heads-up for now, as hyprland doesn't seem to officially support Nvidia atm

[NotAShelf]

I'll take a look at this, I think it's doable with Hugo's switch components

[WasteOfO2]

I will try to help where I can

[WasteOfO2]

@NotAShelf friendly ping for reminding

[NotAShelf]

This is still on my mind, I intend to set up my VMs and take a look as soon as I return.

[WasteOfO2]

I personally think that the foreword is unnecessary. It would be a good idea to just ask them to install the drivers from their repos.

The optimus-manager service should probably be masked, rather than disabled or removed. It achieves the same thing as being removed, but atleast u can unmask it later if you change ur mind. Or maybe a simpler solution is to disable it in the bios (needs testing)

I am pretty sure Nvidia also supports EGL Stream, so the GBM backend may be redundant (needs confirmation)

nvidia-vaapi-driver part is what i find a bit sketchy, it is known to conflict with libva-vdpau-driver and may be problematic with integrated GPUs.

This is what i have noticed without actually testing, i still cannot confirm flickering stuff mentioned. Pls add to this list if u notice smth i didnt mention

[WasteOfO2]

@NotAShelf i can use my pc now, i can work on it now

[NotAShelf]

go right ahead, I no longer use fedora

[WasteOfO2]

Sure