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If only Wayland worked on NVidia GPUs.[1][2][3]

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm3/+bug/1968929

[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm3/+bug/2020249

[3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.tag=nvidia-way...

use newer Nvidia driver helps https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wayland

I just "upgraded" from NVidia driver 525 to 530. Now I have programs that use Vulkan crashing with segmentation faults. Legacy OpenGL still works.

Filed two bug reports. Back to Xorg.

Turns out that Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS has a library out of sync.[1] No Wayland use of Vulkan on LTS until mid-2024. Apparently fixed in Ubuntu 22.10.

Back to Xorg for now.

[1] https://github.com/NVIDIA/egl-wayland/issues/80

The recently released nvidia 535 supposed to fix many wayland issues. Probably need to wait until it trickles down to your distro.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-535.54.03-Linux-Driver

Search with Google for "NVidia 525 driver not installing Ubuntu" for the sorry tale of NVidia 525 vs. Ubuntu and Mint. There's a dependency problem and the install fails. There is much discussion of workarounds. If you try this using the "additional drivers" GUI program, you get a dialog box with a big X and an "OK" button, but no message.

If you want to run Wayland on NVidia hardware, you need to be heavily into Linux system administration.

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