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Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs by freeone3000 on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @05:19PM (#24347201)
They support nouveau. Wayland doesn't support EGS, no matter what DE you stick in front, so nv drivers are out.

(Nvidia cards have two drivers on Linux, nouveau, the open-source, slow, and incompatible-with-Quadro ones, and NV, the binary blob shipped by Nvidia that people take religious exception to.)

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Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs by jborean93 on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @06:22PM (#24347822)
Gnome supports Wayland over EGS just not by default. I tried it out a few months ago and while it "works" it was somewhat buggy and I just went back to X.
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Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs by fluffything on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @04:12AM (#24351097)
Gnome and KDE on Wayland support both EGS and GBM, and they have for a while, so the nvidia binary driver "just works" with either of them.
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Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs by jfim on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @10:02PM (#24349299)
What's EGS in this context? I'll take it it's not the Epic Game Store, and searching for Wayland EGS only lands on this HN comment.
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Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs by freeone3000 on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @10:43PM (#24349513)
EGLStreams, one graphics API. The alternative is graphics buffer manager with kernel mode settings.
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