I’m happy to see Nvidia making progress on Linux support for its GPUs, such as proper Wayland support, VRR and so on and so forth. Nevertheless, there is still a ( big ) nuance with Nvidia GPUs on Linux: VA-API.
As much as NVEC / NVDEC is cool and all, lots of apps support only VA-API ( Chromium, Electron based apps, etc… ). Are there any plans to fix the VA-API implementation for Nvidia graphics cards? If so, are there any ETAs? The only “solution” is to use nvidia-vaapi-driver, which is a community made solution, though it only supports NVDEC (and not NVENC ) and its mainly meant for Firefox.
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And nvidia-vaapi-driver uses NVDEC which depends on CUDA, so the GPU is locked to P2 state
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