Anyone having problems? I am getting “stuck” notification popups and spectacle really slow to launch and very buggy.
Lenovo Legion5/RTX3070.
I’ve held off updating arch since 555 seems a basketcase right now still following the official threads. Try adding to your grub “NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware=0” in the thread, it seems to have fixed some of that for wayland, but also seems to then causes new issues with xorg sessions.
The crap part is by nature of arch rolling I can’t install anything new until I update, where I was hoping this would work itself out by now, but the stable release of 555 didn’t seem to really overall improve anything. Wayland is otherwise unusable without 555 where a good lot of apps I use requiring x11 rendering still. Yes I could pin drivers and kernel, but it’s more annoying I have to for never-ending garbage driver problems from nvidia under linux.
With the never ending driver drama, I am sooo done buying nvidia anymore for linux use. Thankfully more amd solutions like framework exist now for laptops. No wonder Valve chose AMD over Nvidia for their linux gaming platform.
Thanks for the link, nothing helpful in it, I agree next machine will be AMD 
From what I’m seeing the 555 drivers are working fine in Arch and Arch based distros. Much better to be on a rolling release than a distro based on UBlunder.
I am on Endeavour and no they do not work. Endeavour is just Arch+Calamares installer and a few bits + bobs.
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I have both Garuda and CachyOS and the 555 drivers work perfectly.
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What card? Can you try spectacle (from a terminal) please? (so I can compare output).
Yes. Trying out Wayland with nvidia 555 and Plasma 6.1.1 (on Manjaro), Spectacle consistently fails when pressing the Print Screen key (also fails when selected from Application Menu).
Error pop-up:
Launching Spectacle (Failed)
Remote peer disconnected
There are a few other glitches, so I’ll continue with X11, and try Wayland again after the next update.
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No issues with Spectacle on my old Arch system with a GTX 750Ti. I suspect of another amateurish packaging done by Manjaro.
What I get from terminal, but it takes the image and I honestly can’t see anything wrong with the image. Sorry I couldn’t be more helpful.
qt.gui.imageio: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
Can’t be arsed up/down grading (again!):
kpipewire_vaapi_logging: VAAPI: VA-API NVDEC driver [direct backend] in use for device "/dev/dri/renderD128"
This was my error - copied from my post on the Endeavour OS forum, yesterday.
@WankedWilly - seems like this only affects newer cards, last time it went tits up, it only affected older cards.
Lots of reports now on the arch forum, no solution, staying with the 550 drivers is the way for now.
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@xiron just to reassure you or not!! But i’ve no issue to trigger Spectacle from the terminal. Even if kpipewire complains:
$ time spectacle
kpipewire_vaapi_logging: VAAPI: Failed to initialize display
kpipewire_vaapi_logging: DRM device not found
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spectacle
TOTAL 4,82s
User 0,41s
Sys 0,35s
cpu 15%
Operating System: EndeavourOS
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.1
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × Intel® Core™ i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz
Memory: 15.4 Gio of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650
System Version: Legion LENOVO Y540-15IRH-PG0