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If this check were not here, Nvidia would still not work. This serves to reduce our bug report volume. However, by deleting these few lines of code (or specifying the appropriate command line argument), Nvidia could work tomorrow if they shipped GBM support.

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If that check were not there, would intel for display + nvidia for compute work? Better chance than now.

The flag is there for you to override if you think you know better. We don't answer questions or provide support for any use-case with the proprietary driver.

Refusing to run if a particular kernel module is loaded (even if you don't touch it at all) is overstepping. You should at least provide an override flag.

There is an override flag, its linked in the code snippet.

Use "--unsupported-gpu" or "--my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia" to bypass the check and allow sway to launch.

Ah, er, jolly good then. Carry on.

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