I am running the new beta nvidia-driver under wayland and it has solved many issues, most notably running chrome browsers under wayland with using hardware enabled. With 560 drivers, I would get a log-filling stream of buffer failures whenever the browsers were started and if the use of hardware was enabled. The 565 driver has also solved this issue, and persistent pipewire over/under runs whenever audio or video is played. You should consider unmasking the keywords for ~amd64. Note, I do not run games.
This is what NVIDIA upstream says about betas: "Beta drivers are provided by NVIDIA as preview releases for quick bug fixes and access to new features. Beta drivers are under qualification testing, and may include significant issues. It is the end user’s responsibility to protect system and data when using Beta drivers with NVIDIA products. It is strongly recommended that end users back up all the data prior to using Beta drivers from this site. Please ensure that newer Recommended/Certified drivers are not already posted on NVIDIA.com prior to installation and usage of Beta drivers. Beta drivers posted do not carry any warranties nor support services." Can't take responsibility for this, and it should stay an opt-in. "Typically" nvidia only keep them in beta for 1 trial version, so the next release has good chances to be keyworded.
CC'ing chromium just as fyi if get report about nvidia users having issues.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=5150432557d0b8e8a4d33886e77eeea1e8030d53 commit 5150432557d0b8e8a4d33886e77eeea1e8030d53 Author: Ionen Wolkens <ionen@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2024-10-25 10:11:10 +0000 Commit: Ionen Wolkens <ionen@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2024-10-25 10:19:18 +0000 x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers: keyword 565.57.0-r2 beta Not particularly happy about this (esp. given this version is meant to be used with egl-wayland-1.1.17 and this enables explicit sync that may still cause some applications to crash), but with 560 being vulnerable and 550 not working so well for "some" users on wayland (presumably those with hybrid graphics?), guess we need it albeit this may solve issues for some and cause more for others... If have problems, please downgrade to stable 550, can also downgrade egl-wayland albeit that may hurt xwayland performance or cause visual glitches with egl-x11. For Xorg users, 565 or 550 should make close to no difference though, may potentially have an impact on suspend/resume (good or bad). Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/941991 Signed-off-by: Ionen Wolkens <ionen@gentoo.org> profiles/package.mask | 10 ---------- .../nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-565.57.01-r2.ebuild | 18 +----------------- 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 27 deletions(-)
