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swaywm / sway

i3-compatible Wayland compositor
https://swaywm.org
MIT License
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Need support for Nvidia driver #8184

Closed blakemcbride closed 3 months ago

blakemcbride commented 3 months ago

I love sway. It is my window manager of choice.

I use LLM software and video editing software. For efficient and practical use of these, I need the Nvidia drivers. Sway does not work with the Nvidia drivers. For this reason, I am forced to go back to X11 and i3.

Please make Sway work with the Nvidia driver!

Thank you!

emersion commented 3 months ago

We do not provide support for proprietary drivers. Please do not open issues if you're using such driver.

blakemcbride commented 3 months ago

I presume you realize that sway cannot be used with LLM or video recording or editing software.

bl4ckb0ne commented 3 months ago

We are well aware of that, unfortunately the proprietary driver doesn't always play nice and it's impossible for us to troubleshoot. We prefer to be upright about it.

You can still use the unsupported-gpu option, but don't expect anything from us if something goes wrong.

samvv commented 1 month ago

Just adding that at least as of June, part of the drivers of NVIDIA are open-sourced for Turing, Ampere and Ada Lovelace architectures.

Does this change anything to your current stance @bl4ckb0ne or @emersion?

Asking because I was stupid enough to buy a laptop with an NVIDIA GPU.

emersion commented 1 month ago

Unfortunately only the kernel driver is open-source. The GL and Vulkan implementations remain closed-source.

samvv commented 1 month ago

Oh right I didn't know that, sorry for the noise!

bl4ckb0ne commented 1 month ago

NVK looks promising but it's not yet available in mainstream distros, you can give it a try if you want but it could still be unstable.