Nvidia drivers not active on kde wayland

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Hey, I just installed endeavour os and nvidia drivers. It works on x11 but not on wayland.

I followed the instructions from this forum: How to login to Wayland in EndeavourOS KDE?

but it still shows intel graphics on wayland rather than nvidia. I’d love some help please

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Hello @evirac and welcome! :enos: :enos_flag:

For Nvidia drivers to work on Wayland, you need to enable kernel-mode-setting (DRM KMS).

See the ArchWiki, and Nvidia docs.

:v:

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Looks like it’s an Acer Predator G3-572 hybrid laptop. What does this command show?

inxi -Ga

In order to use Nvidia you have to switch graphics. Does this laptop have integrated, dedicated and hybrid settings in the UEFI Bios?

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For Nvidia drivers to work on Wayland, you need to enable kernel-mode-setting (DRM KMS).

yes, I followed the steps. it says

To enable DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) kernel mode setting, add the nvidia_drm.modeset=1 kernel parameter.

i did this. in the grub menu at startup when I press ‘e’ it shows me nvidia_drm.modeset=1 between a bunch of other options. But the drivers still don’t work on wayland

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[evirac@evirac ~]$ inxi -Ga
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 630 vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: i915
    v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5 process: Intel 14nm built: 2016-20 ports:
    active: eDP-1 empty: none bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:591b
    class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile]
    vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: nvidia v: 535.54.03
    alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 530.xx+
    status: current (as of 2023-05) arch: Pascal code: GP10x
    process: TSMC 16nm built: 2016-21 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16
    link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s ports: active: none empty: HDMI-A-1
    bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1c8c class-ID: 0300
  Device-3: Chicony HD WebCam driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-9:5 chip-ID: 04f2:b5f7
    class-ID: 0e02
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.8 with: Xwayland v: 23.1.2
    compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia dri: iris
    gpu: i915,nvidia display-ID: 0
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1920x1080 size: N/A modes: N/A
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 23.1.2 renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 630 (KBL
    GT2) direct-render: Yes

no, I don’t think so. Bios looks very oldish and there are hardly any options besides boot sequence, secure boot and other simply stuff

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So the latest nvidia driver is installed. You need to switch graphics if you want to use nvidia.

Edit: I would suggest trying optimus-manager on Kde first. This gives a tray icon to switch between intel and nvidia which requires you to reboot when changing graphics i think.

yay -S optimus-manager-qt

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I did this but the problem remains. The drivers are enabled in x11 but not in wayland

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Did you try switching to nvidia using optimus-manager? Is the tray icon there? What happens when you try to switch?

Edit: maybe try uninstalling optimus-manager and then try envy-control instead.

https://discovery.endeavouros.com/hardware/envy-control/2023/03/

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No idea if there’s a connection but this guide (although NOT specific for laptops/dual graphics) talks about (re)building the initramfs: