alt Hacker NewsYou might have an older GPU that doesn't work with wayland like me. My Radeon HD5870 also won't do Vulkan and anything wayland has never worked properly for me.
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duskdozer • today at 5:32 AM
I have the same issue using either an older AMD card and an RTX 3 series card. Both are fine with X11.
I'm not questioning what you are saying, but Wayland's only requirement is DRM, which is a Linux kernel capability that is supported for basically everything that you can push some sort of display cable into. It's for buffer management, and X was also ported to use this API.
Unless you have proprietary X server blobs, you have mostly the same low level route in either case to display stuff, so it's on the exact compositor you have tried, not on the wayland protocol.