Wayland is missing

avgdd · September 30, 2021, 9:02pm

Hello, I installed EndeavourOS last week and I was wondering why my installation came preinstalled with X11 and some user’s came with Wayland. I would like to try Wayland on my computer but I don’t know how to enable it. Can anyone help me?

Let me attach some pictures of my PC specs, OS version and login screen in case it might be useful.

ricklinux · September 30, 2021, 9:12pm

It should be the icon or gear at the bottom right of the screen to change from x11. Are you sure your resolution isn’t set too large and it’s actually off the screen?

Edit: When you click in the box to enter your password you should see the gear icon omn the bottom right before logging in.

Screenshot_20210930_170938

Edit: Check with

echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE

csteinforth · September 30, 2021, 9:31pm

Maybe you need to enable early KMS as described here.

avgdd · September 30, 2021, 9:35pm

that command returns X11. I don’t think the screen resolution is the issue as the rest of the UI seems to behave just fine.

avgdd · September 30, 2021, 9:36pm

I haven’t tried that… I will give it a shot tomorrow and see if it works. Thanks!!

Shjim · September 30, 2021, 9:40pm

Nvidia maybe problem …

BONK · September 30, 2021, 9:43pm

It’s on the upper right in their screen shot.

joekamprad · September 30, 2021, 9:47pm

exactly that on Nvidia drivers it will default to X11 – it needs some settings changed to get wayland working on Nvidia drivers.

ricklinux · September 30, 2021, 9:50pm

Well if in fact it’s on Nvidia then that explains a lot.

BONK · September 30, 2021, 9:50pm

Nvm

avgdd · September 30, 2021, 9:54pm

it is not. That is the accessibility menu

ricklinux · September 30, 2021, 10:25pm

Is it Nvidia graphics?

inxi -Faz --no-host | eos-sendlog

Urworstnit3m3r · September 30, 2021, 10:51pm

It looks like you have NVIDIA GPU, i believe the installer auto installs x11 when you use the NVIDIA install since NVIDIA and Wayland do not play well.

avgdd · September 30, 2021, 11:07pm

Yes it is https://clbin.com/9nasA

BONK · September 30, 2021, 11:12pm

WaylandEnable=true

avgdd · October 1, 2021, 9:37pm

I just tried that by following the instructions on the wiki, it didn’t work.
I also tried adding a kernel parameter nvidia-drm.modeset=1 but it didnt work either.
any ideas??

avgdd · October 2, 2021, 8:47am

Yesterday I managed to solve this issue. What I did was follow this guide here: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/howto-use-wayland-with-propietary-nvidia-drivers/36130

But I changed a few steps based on info I read on the wiki:

For step 2, I recommend running: cp /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/61-gdm.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/61-gdm.rules as the folder in the /etc directory takes preference and won’t be replaced on a system update.
For step 4, I recommend following this guide to build the grub proplerly: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/kernel_parameters#GRUB

system · October 4, 2021, 8:47am

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