Hello,

I hope someone can clear things up a bit for me regarding the Nvidia drivers and KDE on Wayland. So, before I installed the KDE Plasma desktop I followed the below guide to install the Nvidia drivers on Xorg.

Introduction The objective is to enable NVIDIA GPU of an Optimus-based laptop all the time and use it for every single activity. Please do not use this guide if you…

Then I installed the KDE Plasma and logged in with Wayland. The problem is now that the default drivers are the Intel integrated ones.

Device: 0 Name: Intel® HD Graphics 630 Default: yes Environment: DRI_PRIME=pci-0000_00_02_0

Device: 1 Name: NVIDIA Corporation GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile] Default: no Environment: __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __VK_LAYER_NV_optimus=NVIDIA_only

Is it possible to have the Nvidia driver as default on Wayland? Or will this only work on X11?

Do I need to uninstall the Nvidia drivers and follow another process to have this work with Wayland?

Based on the below it seems that Wayland and Nvidia are compatible, but I just can’t find the steps needed to enable this.

"Wayland NVIDIA works under Wayland (and Xwayland) starting with Fedora 35 and NVIDIA driver 495 and later. With GNOME 41, Wayland can be selected explicitly with GDM.

Please remind that video acceleration with VDPAU isn’t available under Wayland."

Thank you!