On Thu, 22 Apr 2021 at 04:14, Ed Greshko ed.greshko@greshko.com wrote:
To give any opinion about you chances to get wayland working one would need to know your HW and what version of the driver you're running. If your HW is 8 years old, then my guess would be your chances of getting wayland running are slim.
Wayland runs with nouveau on this system purchased in 2010 and running Fedora 33:
% uname -a Linux dormarth 5.11.7-200.fc33.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Mar 17 18:55:20 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux % env | grep WAY WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-0 % sudo lshw -C video *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: GT218 [GeForce 310] vendor: NVIDIA Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0 version: a2 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0 resources: irq:32 memory:fa000000-faffffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:ce000000-cfffffff ioport:ec00(size=128) memory:c0000-dffff
I have had problems with distros that no longer include modules to support older hardware. With Fedora I was stuck on 5.8 kernels until a simple mistake that broke nouveau on old hardware was corrected upsteam.