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Enable Wayland on Arch on Dell Precision 5680
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Tested on Arch with GNOME and GDM, using proprietary NVIDIA drivers on a Dell Precision 5680.

Install nvidia or nvidia-dkms version >=545.

Enable DRM KMS by adding kernel parameters modeset=1 and fbdev=1. If using systemd-boot edit your boot entry (for example /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf) and modify the options line as follows

options <existing options> modeset=1 fbdev=1

See here for other bootloaders.

Force GDM to use Wayland

ln -s /dev/null /etc/udev/rules.d/61-gdm.rules

Reboot and check that Wayland is enabled

> echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
wayland

Here are some more troubleshooting steps that might help: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GDM#Wayland_and_the_proprietary_NVIDIA_driver

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