Just a general FYI, after this last sync all the pieces are in place for packages in the repo so that Plasma users with Nvidia GPUs may try out Wayland session at their own risk.
To do so (assuming you already have a working Plasma environment):
- Install
nvidia-beta-driver-current and plasma-workspace-wayland-session (if your GPU is too old to be compatible with the 510 Nvidia driver then you shouldn't do this and you won't be able to use Wayland in the future - to find out if your GPU is compatible go here and click "Supported Products")
- Create the
/etc/kernel/cmdline.d folder if it doesn't already exist.
- Create the file
20_nvidia.conf in that folder with the following contents:
nvidia-drm.modeset=1
- Run
sudo usysconf run -f
- Reboot your system
If all goes well you should be able to choose Wayland at the login manager. If you end up at a black screen you can reboot again, hit down a couple of times during boot until the bootloader pops up, then hit e over the most recent kernel and then remove the nvidia-drm.modeset=1 from the boot string. Hit enter and you should be back in business.
Note, this is completely unsupported by Solus devs and bug reports not reproducible in X11-session will not be accepted. You can however report broken things to the KDE devs and hopefully they can fix them.
