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by kaba0 1204 days ago
Wayland uses linux’s gpu abstraction (drm) to work and that’s it. If it fails to work than linux also does, so your setup has some issues.
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aidenn0 1204 days ago
I have to disable hardware compositing on X11 to get a reliable desktop (and HW rendering in individual apps like firefox). I'm not sure if something similar is possible on Wayland.
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saturn_vk 1204 days ago
It doesn't sound like X11 is running reliably for you either
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aidenn0 1204 days ago
I restart X11 only when either there's a power failure longer than the battery on my UPS, or I upgrade my kernel, so it's reliable enough.
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vetinari 1204 days ago
Having to disable compositing doesn't sound very reliable.
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yjftsjthsd-h 1204 days ago
If it works, it works. And some of us never bothered installing a compositor in the first place, so it's hardly a high bar.
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vetinari 1204 days ago
Obviously it doesn't work if your workaround is disabling it. It is either bad hardware, or buggy driver. For the latter, it has to be some obscure hardware; popular hardware would have it fixed.
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kaba0 1204 days ago
That doesn’t depend on the protocol, I think most implementations can simply choose a so-called “dumb” backend instead of hardware composition.
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