NVIDIA 580 Linux Graphics Driver Released, Promises Better Wayland Support | Linux Today

NVIDIA 580 Linux Graphics Driver Released, Promises Better Wayland Support

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Marius Nestor
Aug 23, 2025

Highlights of the NVIDIA 580 graphics driver series include improved support for Wayland by introducing support for the fifo-v1 Wayland protocol on Vulkan and fixing a bug that could cause GTK 4 apps to crash when using the Vulkan backend on Wayland.

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Marius Nestor

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