5mo ago

No wayland option despite fresh gnome install (Debian 12, testing, nvidia)

This is something I have been stuck on for a while.

I want to use Wayland for that variable refresh rate and some better handeling of screen recordings.

I have tried time and time again to get a wayland session running with the proprietary nvidia driver, but have not gotten there yet.

Only the X11 options are listed on the login screen. When using the fallback FOSS nvidia driver however, all the correct X11 and Wayland options show up (Including Gnome and KDE, both in X11 and Wayland).

Wasn't this fixed, like, about a year ago? I have the "latest" proprietary nvidia driver, but the current debain one is still pretty old (535.183.06).

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I had the same problem - see this thread for solution (you have to scoll down to the middle)
https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=157700
in short, delete or rename this file: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/61-gdm.rules
- You can do that but Nvidia probably won't be stable on your system.
  Debian is also not the right choice for having a modern system...
- Unfortunately that did not fix it for me. I have now renamed the file to [...].backup but it still only displays X11 options.
  
  RIP 😭

From what I can tell, Nvidia drivers only started to git gud at doing Wayland around version 555.
- Fair, but they supported it a bit before that too I think. Like, they allowed it to show up in the login.

Haven't used Debian in a while now, but back when I did, Wayland never did appear in the sessions dropdown on a fresh install with an nvidia card and nvidia proprietary drivers. Doing what is explained in the following link always worked for me though:
https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Wayland
Apologies if you have already tried this, but as I said, I've luckily not had to do more to get it to work, so hopefully it's the same for you.
- Just tried it, and sadly that didn't change anything after a reboot.

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