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I recently upgraded to OpenSuSE 16, which now forces me into wayland. After the upgrade, I had no graphics at all, but I resolved that by installing the newest NVIDIA drivers like the documentation suggests. Now most things work, but there are some major issues:

  • I cannot use my 4k monitor at 60Hz over HDMI.
  • Some programs, like Firefox, routinely freeze or even crash; I get error messages such as Failed to make render context current, can't draw. or Failed to allocate NVKMS memory for GEM object in my dmesg.

There are loads of threads for these issues in other distros online, most of which identify the problem coming from the combination Wayland/NVIDIA; I tried the fixes suggested there (ensuring modeset is on, setting a resolution in the kernel parameters,...), but to no avail.

What is different in SuSE to all the other distros so that this / the fixes won't work at all? The first issue is something I can somewhat get around, but everything freezing all the time is just unusable.

All of this worked in the previous version on X11 without any issues whatsoever.

Versions:
OpenSuSE 16 with KDE Plasma 6.4.2
NVIDIA drivers 580.105.08 (proprietary) from the official repo on an RTX 3070

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