Wayland and NVIDIA - Explicit Synchronization Protocol

This will improve the desktop experience for NVIDIA users…

Thank you for sharing this, deano_ferrari. I also saw another article:

https://linuxiac.com/wayland-nvidia-explicit-sync-support/

that indicates that an nvida driver supporting explicit sync could arrive in mid May.

It requires support both in compositor and Xwayland and as of now only Weston implements it.

Mesa has Vulkan support for this merged.

Mutter has this merged.

XWayland has this merged.

KWin is on the way.

I’d say the future is sound. :smile:

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And KWin made it too!

Now waiting for the NVIDIA driver 555.

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I haven’t given it a roll yet, but the 555 driver is out today:

https://9to5linux.com/nvidia-555-beta-linux-graphics-driver-released-with-explicit-sync-support

https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/555.42.02/