this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2023
242 points (99.6% liked)

Linux

48664 readers
523 users here now

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

Rules

Related Communities

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Made public today was CVE-2023-43785 as an out-of-bounds memory access within the libX11 code that has been around since 1996. A second libX11 flaw is stack exhaustion from infinite recursion within the PutSubImage() function of libX11... This vulnerability has been around since X11R2 in February of 1988.

Due to these issues coming to light, libX11 1.8.7 and libXpm 3.5.17 were released today with the necessary security fixes. More details on these latest X.Org security vulnerabilities via today's X.Org security advisory.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Even if you have an nvidia card, it's... fine now? With a 1080Ti, and Plasma, I haven't really had any issues on the Wayland session, that aren't straight up KDE bugs

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even if you have an nvidia card, it’s… fine now?

Until the next NVidia-specific workaround is required.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I mean, fingers crossed we don't, but so far this has also not been an issue for a year or two, in my case. Cruising happily

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Still no VRR support which is likely a dealbreaker for many.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Like I've said, it's not flawless. There are things missing, but in the larger scheme of things, it is both usable and stable. In my daily usage, I have not encountered any dealbreakers

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

With AMD you can. GSync isn't supported on Wayland.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Series 10 is safe to use in wayland?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

[This comment has been deleted by an automated system]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Same, am happily using an NVidia 3060 laptop with Wayland+Plasma. Playing BG3 and Guildwars2 on Proton+Xwayland. Got a Plasma panel freezing bug (that's applicable to non-Intel GPU's) that fortunately had a workaround so I'm fine.

So for some use cases at least it's OK. They seem to be working more on Wayland now: In the next driver they're fixing a number of things bothering some people like v-sync and Vulkan on Prime. They also have a ticket in progress for nightlight (GAMMA_LUT support) but not sure what version it's headed for.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They work fine on wayland when they are not being used as a primary GPU. My optimus laptop (680M + RTX3050) works perfect on Wayland because 99% to 100% of the time it actually uses the AMD GPU for the desktop things. It only uses the discrete Nvidia GPU when I tell it to for games and the like. My desktop that is nvidia-only though is another story, last time I tried I got significant cursor glitches after waking from sleep, the night light doesn't work due to the lack of GAMMA_LUT like you mentionned. There were also all sorts of glitches with Blur my shell iirc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have the laptop set to NVidia Dedicated mode, the integrated GPU is dormant at all times (verified with nvtop), so I don't have any experiences with Optimus. I don't use suspend, I turn it on in the morning, off in the evening.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh thank god, this is the first I've heard of them working on GAMMA_LUT support. I've been dying without night light.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, they haven't committed to a release number and I don't know what priority the ticket has, however if you use KDE there will be a workaround for night light without GAMMA_LUT for Plasma 6.