Oolite Bulletins

Looks like AnduinOS 1.4 is locked on Wayland - all my attempts to disable it and use Xserver have failed. I downloaded the nvidia drivers, but could only get 30 fps at 1920x1080, and feels like a slideshow at higher resolutions. Might have to try another distribution. Pity. I was liking the look of AnduinOS. Might take a look at Zorin.

phkb wrote: ↑Sat Feb 21, 2026 5:05 am

Looks like AnduinOS 1.4 is locked on Wayland - all my attempts to disable it and use Xserver have failed. I downloaded the nvidia drivers, but could only get 30 fps at 1920x1080, and feels like a slideshow at higher resolutions. Might have to try another distribution. Pity. I was liking the look of AnduinOS. Might take a look at Zorin.

It is based on Ubuntu but strips it down. May be not all possibilities are compatible.
Have you tried Ubuntu directly? It still can be switched back to X.org.

If you do prefer wayland + nvidia you should look into using KDE as Desktop Environment.

MrFlibble wrote: ↑Sat Feb 21, 2026 1:34 am

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Jealous!!!

(Waddles into the sunset muttering about the need to invest in better hardware)

Salt on the wound, the 970 is the GPU on the riser. I also have a 2070 SUPER (bound to vfio-pci) for qemu GPU passthrough. And the disabled iGPU in the Ryzen 5700g
To "water the salt", though, the hybrid monitor setup might be for the worse, instead of better. Needs always a lot of careful allocation, and tweaking.
Here's a screenshot with 30 FPS for 5760x1080:


As an anecdote, my attempt at HDR with Wayland happened under slackware-current (a live image since 2025, Nov. 7). I use it for trying the evolution of XFCE under Wayland (wlroots/labwc compositor). It's also where I tried the new AppImage distribution, and was shocked having <10 FPS under nouveau driver. The NVidia blob brought it justice, but I didn't capture any metrics at the time.

phkb wrote: ↑Sat Feb 21, 2026 5:05 am

Looks like AnduinOS 1.4 is locked on Wayland - all my attempts to disable it and use Xserver have failed. I downloaded the nvidia drivers, but could only get 30 fps at 1920x1080, and feels like a slideshow at higher resolutions. Might have to try another distribution. Pity. I was liking the look of AnduinOS. Might take a look at Zorin.

Lone_Wolf wrote: ↑Sat Feb 21, 2026 1:13 pm

If you do prefer wayland + nvidia you should look into using KDE as Desktop Environment.

I also use KDE. I tried Mint for a while (which uses its own Cinnamon desktop) and it was super easy to use and set up, but KDE is that bit more customisable while retaining an interface that Windows users will find clear. I could not get used to Gnome's interface at all. My distro is Kubuntu 25.10 and I am running Wayland + nVidia.

The flatpak date issue from earlier in this thread is now fixed - the date is taken from Git

OK, I've installed Zorin 18, I can log in using XOrg now, and I think I found what the issue is.

Oolite is not using the NVIDIA graphics card, and is instead reverting to the Intel UHD graphics.

I've tried all the obvious suggestions on the web to get apps to use the NVIDIA graphics card, but nothing has moved the needle yet. In the NVIDIA Settings app, the "PRIME Profiles" has "Select which GPU you would like to use", with options of "NVIDIA (Performance Mode)", "NVIDIA On Demand" and "Intel (Power saving mode)". NVIDIA On Demand is currently selected, but I also tried the Performance mode option.

The graphics card is detected by the OS and appears to be working OK.

Do I have to change something in Oolite, or in the OS, to get Oolite to use the NVIDIA card?

Don't know if you have come across this, it might be of some help:

https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/ ... fload.html

While the link posted by A_C is likely relevant, setting up graphics correctly on a intel integrated gpu + dedicated nvidia gpu can be tricky and depends on both hardware and software versions/capabilities.

Although I know a lot about such setups (and have helped arch linux users with such setups many times) , I know nothing about how zorin does things.
Asking about this on https://forum.zorin.com/ is probably your best bet.
(discord , matrix , irc and similar are not well suited for this type of troubleshooting ).

Include the outputs of and the content of your xorg log in your opening post.

xorg log is typically found in /var/log/ or ~/.local/share/xorg/ .
Incase you're using GDM as login manager, xorg log is included in the system journal.

<whew, why would some consider laptops good for anything >

I played with optimus setup(s) in Linux quite some time ago (10-12 years?). It was a "set it and forget it" type of action, just to check it's not a ... mirage.
From what I recall, the solution to these setups at that time was called "bumblebee", and I just did a quick "bumblebee nvidia optimus" on google, and (without any AI response ) it still seems to be the recommended for the older models.