Trying to run KDE 6 Plasma with Wayland....

elgrande said:
I have drm-kmod which still seems to pull in drm-66-kmod.
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graphics/drm-kmod pulls on latest branch:
while on quarterly (2026Q2):

Note that NVIDIA driver ports in corresponding with graphics/drm-612-kmod landed onto latest branch of ports tree today.
graphics/nvidia-drm-latest-kmod{-580|-devel} are updated, too, as graphics/drm-latest-kmod is already bumped to 6.12 almost at the same time graphics/drm-612-kmod landed.
 
T-Aoki said:
graphics/drm-kmod pulls on latest branch:
while on quarterly (2026Q2):

Note that NVIDIA driver ports in corresponding with graphics/drm-612-kmod landed onto latest branch of ports tree today.
graphics/nvidia-drm-latest-kmod{-580|-devel} are updated, too, as graphics/drm-latest-kmod is already bumped to 6.12 almost at the same time graphics/drm-612-kmod landed.
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Ok a very big Thank you for this info. it will certainly help to advise users setting up graphics for the coming months.
 
In all honesty, it would be good to see more reports of graphics/drm-612-kmod working (or not), and soon. After all, KDE plans to drop X11 support really soon:
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Since graphics/drm-612-kmod only really works on FreeBSD 15.1 and later (which will be out in about a week), this is gonna make for a pretty busy time testing and ironing out the kinks. Compiling stuff from ground up several times over just to see if a fix worked - that's no joke, very time-consuming, but needs to be done. And don't count on seeing pre-compiled packages being out very soon.
 
astyle said:
In all honesty, it would be good to see more reports of graphics/drm-612-kmod working (or not), and soon. After all, KDE plans to drop X11 support really soon:
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Since graphics/drm-612-kmod only really works on FreeBSD 15.1 and later (which will be out in about a week), this is gonna make for a pretty busy time testing and ironing out the kinks. Compiling stuff from ground up several times over just to see if a fix worked - that's no joke, very time-consuming, but needs to be done. And don't count on seeing pre-compiled packages being out very soon.
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I'm not a member of DRM/KMS ports team, but as far as I could see (and if I understand correctly), fixes for recent breakages (PR 294870, PR 294875 and PR 294878) of graphics/drm-61-kmod and graphics/drm-66-kmod on non-CURRENT (aka main) versions were:
  1. first developed in main branch of upstream drm-kmod repo,
  2. backported to 6.12 (which was before landing to ports tree),
  3. backported to 6.6,
  4. then backported to 6.1.
If I understand correctly, the offending commit of the build breakages were NOT crept into graphics/drm-515-kmod nor graphics/drm-510-kmod.
So any fixes would go into 6.12 earlier than 6.6 and 6.1.
 
I've recently tried running plasma on Wayland with the RTX 3050. It doesn't seem to detect the GPU properly, gives no options for resolution and renders at 1024x768. Wayfire config settings are ignored for refresh rate as well. I set the refresh at 144hz but it only works at 60. Xorg is working nicely at 144hz and in the past has worked well at 165hz with Nvidia. But I don't use that display anymore. :D I'm sure over time there will be an improved experience for Wayland. On Wayfire the graphics are glitchy and Steam or Epic games work but they graphic quality is full of strange artifacts and colors are strange. I am using nvidia driver 595.71.05. In my experience, Wayland is great on Intel and Radeon. But as far as Nvidia, Xorg is where it's at for me.
 
Charlie Brown said:
I have kde6 running on Wayland on ThinkPad Yoga, intel graphic card without problem. I like my experience so far better than with Xorg
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Reports of success are awesome, and definitely welcome in this thread! Can you please post a screenshot with hardware details, like with neofetch or KDE's own systemsettings app?
😁
 
I was just going to check on the manual to make changes to my user session settings for SDDM and I wasn't able to find the instructions in the manual. I had previously dropped some things from my config and was going to try again with Plasma Wayland on Nvidia. Am I just missing them in the manual?
 
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