Bug 1948003 - Backport support for hardware acceleration with proprietary NVIDIA driver
Summary: Backport support for hardware acceleration with proprietary NVIDIA driver
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-server-Xwayland
Version: 34
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Olivier Fourdan
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Whiteboard: RejectedFreezeException
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-04-09 17:59 UTC by Neal Gompa
Modified: 2021-06-15 01:05 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: xorg-x11-server-Xwayland-21.1.1-2.fc34
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Last Closed: 2021-06-15 01:05:09 UTC
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Description Neal Gompa 2021-04-09 17:59:22 UTC 
Description of problem:
Currently, Xwayland does not support hardware acceleration on the NVIDIA proprietary driver. The upcoming NVIDIA 470 driver series will use the recently-merged support[1], and we should have this in Fedora 34 GA so that it works when the driver is released, even with GA when preloaded on machines.

[1]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/587

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
21.1.0-1.fc34
Comment 1 Neal Gompa 2021-04-09 18:00:45 UTC 
PR submitted for this: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/xorg-x11-server-Xwayland/pull-request/1
Comment 2 Fedora Blocker Bugs Application 2021-04-09 18:03:33 UTC 
Proposed as a Freeze Exception for 34-final by Fedora user ngompa using the blocker tracking app because:

 This would make it good for out of the box Wayland support with the upcoming NVIDIA driver, especially with preloaded machines.
Comment 3 Olivier Fourdan 2021-04-12 11:40:16 UTC 
As stated in the PR, we have no way to test those patches because the closed source driver they enable is not yet available from NVidia, therefore a freeze exception for this seems somehow risky.

A safer approach would be to wait at least for a beta release of the driver from NVidia to make sure those patches work as expected.
Comment 4 František Zatloukal 2021-04-12 17:47:47 UTC 
Discussed during the 2021-04-12 blocker review meeting: [1]

The decision to classify this bug as an RejectedFreezeException was made:

"This is a lot of change for the benefit solely of a proprietary driver. The cost/benefit doesn't seem worth it at this point."

[1] https://meetbot-raw.fedoraproject.org/fedora-blocker-review/2021-04-12/f34-blocker-review.2021-04-12-16.02.log.txt
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2021-06-10 09:04:10 UTC 
FEDORA-2021-4581b42651 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 34. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-4581b42651
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2021-06-11 02:07:40 UTC 
FEDORA-2021-4581b42651 has been pushed to the Fedora 34 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --advisory=FEDORA-2021-4581b42651`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-4581b42651

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2021-06-15 01:05:09 UTC 
FEDORA-2021-4581b42651 has been pushed to the Fedora 34 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
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