Bug 408575

Summary: lack of wayland support when an Nvidia card and native drivers are used
Product: [Plasma] kwin Reporter: proteus5
Component: wayland-genericAssignee: KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal CC: kde
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.16.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Neon   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description proteus5 2019-06-11 15:57:07 UTC 
SUMMARY
It was stated that the 5.15 release of PLASMA would have integrated the wayalnd support for NVidia cards, however after the installation of the upgrade the desktop stays black in wayland mode.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. USE an Nvidia cards;
2. use the last NVidia drivers provided by the PPA;
2. install 5.16 PLASMA desktop environment;
3. switch from PLASMA to PLASMA wayland in the log-in screen;

OBSERVED RESULT
black screen

EXPECTED RESULT
WORKING PLASMA ENVIRONMENT

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
Linux/KDE Plasma: 
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 
KDE Frameworks Version: 
Qt Version: 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 David Edmundson 2019-06-11 15:59:32 UTC 
Include output of

cat /sys/module/nvidia_drm/parameters/modeset

and env
Comment 2 Martin Flöser 2019-06-12 19:32:45 UTC 
*** Bug 408615 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Bug Janitor Service 2019-06-27 04:33:13 UTC 
Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
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Comment 4 Bug Janitor Service 2019-07-12 04:33:13 UTC 
This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
due to lack of needed information.

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