Debian 13, NVidia, Wayland

[mariearouet]

I am running debian 13 on a lenovo laptop.
I have nvidia drivers (nvidia-smi states 550.163.01, CUDA Version: 12.4) and Quadro T1000 Mobile.
I have multiple monitors (2) in addition to built in monitor.
I am unable to use custom scaling per monitor on X11, so I am using wayland.

If I start chrome normally, on some pages it crashes and I get error message:
Snap! …

if i start chrome with
google-chrome --ozone-platform=wayland --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --use-gl=egl

then I go to chrome://gpu
i can see that hardware acceleration is disabled (it states ‘only software’).

If i start chrome with
google-chrome --ozone-platform=x11 --enable-features=UseSkiaRenderer,UseOzonePlatform --disable-features=DirectComposition

hardware acceleration is enabled but there is flickering on some websites (like youtube, some news websites, etc).

Is there a way i can run chrome with my nvidia, wayland, mulitple moniotor set up and make it not flicker or crash?

Please help,
Thank you!

[catt]

NVIDIA added Explicit Sync support in the 555 series, which is important for Wayland. I suspect you got flickering because your older driver doesn’t support that yet.

Debian offers the 555.58.02 packed under their “experimental” package, but even that is kinda old…

I would try the steps here instead: CUDA Toolkit 13.0 Update 1 Downloads | NVIDIA Developer

[mariearouet]

catt, this seems to have worked.

Thank you