May 15, release of Explicit Sync Protocol for Nvidia, what is it and how does it affect X11/Wayland?

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@nicknick

I would like to know what exactly is the “Explicit Sync Protocol” and what it solves.

This is a good explanation from KDE Developer, Xaver Hugl.

Explicit sync

@nicknick

Most of the users said that everything will be fixed tomorrow May 15

May 15 marks the beta release date, so not likely to hit the official packages just yet, but you may find some AUR options.

@nicknick

Also, there is talk that this update will come with KDE 6.1. So I don’t know if it is an update from Nvidia, from KDE, from Arch, or from EOS.

Note this answer here that mentions the need for distro support also, at least as far as XWayland is concerned.

AndrejsK