On Thu, 22 Apr 2021 at 04:14, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko(a)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.
--
George N. White III