{"id":44641,"date":"2023-11-01T15:37:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T15:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=44641"},"modified":"2023-11-01T15:37:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T15:37:14","slug":"nvidia-545-29-02-night-light-wayland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2023\/11\/nvidia-545-29-02-night-light-wayland\/","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA 545.29.02 is out! Support Night Light for GNOME\/KDE Wayland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-38385\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/nvidia-logo-250x250.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/nvidia-logo-250x250.webp 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/nvidia-logo-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/nvidia-logo-600x600.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/nvidia-logo-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/nvidia-logo.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NVIDIA announced 545.29.02 graphics driver for Linux yesterday, as a new release series for its New Feature Branch Version.<\/p>\n<p>For Ubuntu 22.04 + and Fedora Workstation with default GNOME on Wayland, as well as KDE on Wayland, the new driver adds support for the CTM, DEGAMMA_LUT, and GAMMA_LUT DRM-KMS CRTC properties, which, finally make the &#8216;Night Light&#8217; and &#8216;Night Color&#8217; feature work for NVIDIA users.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_44642\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/gnome-nightlight.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44642\" class=\"size-large wp-image-44642\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/gnome-nightlight-600x349.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/gnome-nightlight-600x349.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/gnome-nightlight-300x174.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/gnome-nightlight-768x447.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/gnome-nightlight.webp 1032w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-44642\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Night Light finally works on Wayland with NVIDIA driver<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For desktop GPUs, the release adds initial experimental support for <strong>runtime D3 (RTD3)<\/strong>\u00a0power saving mode. When all the PCI functions are idle, and all required conditions are satisfied, your GPU will go to the lowest power state resulting into maximum power savings.<\/p>\n<p>The new driver also added experimental support for framebuffer consoles. On kernels with implement features, nvidia-drm will install a framebuffer console when loaded with both <code>modeset=1<\/code> and <code>fbdev=1<\/code> kernel parameters. Though, when an nvidia-drm framebuffer console is enabled, unloading nvidia-drm will cause the screen to turn off.<\/p>\n<p>Other changes in NVIDIA 545.29.02 include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Experimental HDMI 10 bits per component support<\/li>\n<li>Support for virtual reality displays<\/li>\n<li>CERTIFIED-quality support for GeForce and Workstation GPUs to open kernelmodules. <\/li>\n<li>Support for PRIME render offload to Vulkan Wayland WSI<\/li>\n<li>Support for HDR signaling<\/li>\n<li>Add support to NVIDIA VDPAU driver for running in Xwayland<\/li>\n<li>Support EGL_ANDROID_native_fence_sync EGL extension.<\/li>\n<li>Support VK_EXTERNAL_SEMAPHORE_HANDLE_TYPE_SYNC_FD_BIT<\/li>\n<li>Support VK_EXTERNAL_FENCE_HANDLE_TYPE_SYNC_FD_BIT<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more about the new driver, see the official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/Download\/driverResults.aspx\/214100\/en-us\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">release note<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>How to Install NVIDIA 545 Driver<\/h3>\n<p>Ubuntu will build the new driver series and publish through official system repositories. So, just wait! It will be available in &#8220;<b>Additional Drivers<\/b>&#8221; utility when it&#8217;s ready.<\/p>\n<p>For those who can&#8217;t wait, the <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~graphics-drivers\/+archive\/ubuntu\/ppa\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cGraphics Drivers\u201d team PPA<\/a> has made the driver package for Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, and higher.<\/p>\n<p>Simply, press <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard to open terminal. Then, run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers\/ppa<\/pre>\n<p>Finally, launch the &#8216;Additional Drivers&#8217; utility for installing the new driver.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/addtional-545.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/addtional-545-600x336.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"336\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-44643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/addtional-545-600x336.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/addtional-545-300x168.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/addtional-545-768x430.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/addtional-545.webp 898w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NVIDIA announced 545.29.02 graphics driver for Linux yesterday, as a new release series for its New Feature Branch Version. For Ubuntu 22.04 + and Fedora Workstation with default GNOME on Wayland, as well as KDE on Wayland, the new driver adds support for the CTM, DEGAMMA_LUT, and GAMMA_LUT DRM-KMS CRTC properties, which, finally make the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[656],"class_list":["post-44641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-nvidia"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}