Summary of existing issues with the nVidia proprietary driver

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Wow, can’t believe it’s been over 2 months since I last updated this thread.

That’s because there’s not been much to add.

The 3 most recent driver releases are all issue-free for my system sporting a trusty old Pascal 1080 Ti GPU.

• 580.82.07 ✔👍🏻
• 580.95.05 ✔👍🏻
• 580.105.08 ✔👍🏻

Regarding changes since last post:

  1. I abandoned the quirky EGL Bad Attribute issue, as I simply don’t care what chrome://gpu reports.
    The issue does not affect Brave or Chromium browser usage in any way.

  2. The long-solved, age-old GTK4 tooltip/dialog distortion issue is on the cusp of being marked SOLVED as the egl-wayland2 package is now in [extra-testing] on Arch.
    I’ve been packaging and using the egl-wayland2 library exclusively (no egl-wayland installed) since July 2025 (5ish months) now.

I’m relieved to find 580.105.08 Production Branch driver builds fine and is issue free on kernel 6.18.0, given this is a Longterm kernel.

Hoping the 580 Series drivers are very long-lived and provide support for many future kernels, including next December 2026 LTS release.

Current stack:

  • Arch Linux | kernel 6.18.0 and 6.17.11
  • hyprland git main @ 76ac655 (-DNO_XWAYLAND:STRING=true)
  • sway git master @ f4aba22 + !8715 (Native Wayland)
  • wlroots git master @ a962d58 + !5071 (Vulkan Backend) & (-Dxwayland=disabled)
  • vulkan-icd-loader 1.4.328.1
  • egl-wayland2 1.01 git main @ 3e5b643
  • nVidia 580.105.08

Note:

  1. I build my compositors without Xwayland support
  2. I package the nVidia driver without the various unneeded X11-related bits or deps installed.

I’ll be back with another update after the next 580 Series driver point-release.