It seems NVIDIA are preparing a new driver update that will enable the use of Vulkan without needing X11.
From the NVIDIA forum:
Thanks, Phoronix.
This is pretty nice to see, as it may enable people using Bumblebee to use Vulkan, which is a way of using more than one graphics chip like found in laptops.
It's possible this may also help with their driver and the Wayland & Mir display servers.
This can also be important for a set of systems designed to render stuff and then send the output somewhere else, they probably wouldn't be using X11 at all. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
From the NVIDIA forum:
QuoteHi,
Sorry for the late reply. Our next driver release will support direct to display which, even if you are not interested in presenting your frames, will allow you to use Vulkan without X running.
Thanks, Phoronix.
This is pretty nice to see, as it may enable people using Bumblebee to use Vulkan, which is a way of using more than one graphics chip like found in laptops.
It's possible this may also help with their driver and the Wayland & Mir display servers.
This can also be important for a set of systems designed to render stuff and then send the output somewhere else, they probably wouldn't be using X11 at all. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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cRaZy-bisCuiT Dec 6, 2016
This can also be important for a set of systems designed to render stuff and then send the output somewhere else, they probably wouldn't be using X11 at all.
In theory, you're quite right! But did this ever work for someone in reality? Xserver should also be capable of that. But how to make use of it? Having a gaming server somewhere and steaming games somewhere else would be a possibility. Nowadays that's achieved by redirecting the input but compressing the game to a h.264 video like what Steam does. It really isn't an option to me since it does not feel native at all.
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I can only imagine a Vulkan Desktop Environment that will also support Virtual Reality... :D
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This can also be important for a set of systems designed to render stuff and then send the output somewhere else,
Like Nvidia HQ
:P
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Blauer_Hunger Dec 7, 2016
What about support Wayland/MIR? :/Afaik they kind of support Wayland, but not the actual specification. Is there some news on this?
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so this means OpenGL got rid of the X dependencies?
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