The latest stable update to NVIDIA’s proprietary driver for Linux, version 555.58, introduces Wayland Explicit Sync. This update follows the previous beta versions 555.42.02 and 555.52.04, which included minor bug fixes and improvements. With this release, users should now be able to confidently use Wayland on NVIDIA GPUs.
Some key changes and improvements in the beta versions include fixing segmentation faults in multi-threaded NvFBC applications, addressing bugs causing corruption in Xwayland and X.org, resolving crashes when graphical applications requested drawables with certain features enabled, fixing kernel panics and race conditions, and more.
The update also brings support for the linux-drm-syncobj-v1 protocol for explicit Wayland synchronization in EGL, removing support for Base Mosaic on GeForce GPUs, enabling immediate presentation mode support in Vulkan Wayland WSI, and enabling HDMI 10-bit per component support by default.
Other improvements include fixing errors related to DRM clients, color display issues, Xid errors, driver compilation failures on certain kernels, adding an interactive prompt for selecting kernel modules, addressing bugs with nvidia-smi -r, correcting Wayland surface support reporting, fixing screen hanging during suspension, and more.
Overall, this update enhances the stability and performance of NVIDIA’s Linux driver, making it more reliable for Wayland users on NVIDIA GPUs. Users can now take advantage of these improvements to enhance their gaming and overall experience on Linux systems.
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