Congratulations Nvidia users, say goodbye to a ton of old bugs and say hello to some new ones!
Nvidia 555 drivers are landing and will be available in the next image build. This post applies to Bluefin/Aurora, Bazzite users stand by for further info.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR FIREFOX USERS
Firefox is crashing in the Wayland session:
(Note: there’s no need to leave a “me too!” or “I need this” comment in bug trackers, they’re aware, stay classy folks!)
That means that you have three options:
Stay on the X11 session until Mozilla fixes this and publishes a new version of Firefox via flathub
Use another browser in the meantime.
Pin your existing image and wait for it all to resolve itself
From looking around it seems most of you have been sitting on the X11 session waiting for these drivers anyway, so we went from a broken desktop to a working desktop but a crashing browser. Hah, computers.
Update:
You can also temporarily work around this issue by using Flatseal to run it in XWayland mode by setting these two options:
I am super excited in trying the new drivers!!! I will be home in a couple of hours to do some checkings! Should I activate “explicit sync” on my new drivers or they will go as they are out of the new release?
edit: I have Bazzite OS… maybe I’ve answered to the wrong post
It looks like we are fine on Bazzite unless I am missing something. I just updated and Firefox is working. Maybe explicit sync is not enabled by default for Plasma 6.1?
sorry man, but it seems that Your screenshot doesn’t show Nvidia 555 drivers… You still have 550. I suppose that we Bazzite users will have to wait a little further.
The 555 drivers are in Bazzite’s :testing branch currently for anyone who wants to try them right now. The Firefox issue applies and we recommend toggling off the Wayland permission in Flatseal for Firefox temporarily until this is fixed or use another browser in the meantime. There will be a major Bazzite update coming soon in :stable too, so keep your eyes peeled for that, and yes the 555 drivers will be part of that update.
In case anyone is facing slow performance after updating, you need to disable the GSP firmware. You can check and see if your system is using the GSP firmware by doing nvidia-smi -q | grep -i gsp. If the output shows N/A you aren’t using the GSP firmware. If it does show a version you need to disable it by setting nvidia.NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware=0 in your kernel options. You can do that by running rpm-ostree kargs --editor.
I’m on Intel + Nvidia hybrid laptop too.
Brave browser is totally unusable, the PC goes to X11 by itself, so i rebased it to stable to see, now Nvidia drivers are gone and using nouveau drivers instead.
i don’t need help but i had rollback and stay there for some time, not a good update.
