NVIDIA 560 Linux driver Beta has Wayland improvements, defaults to open GPU kernel modules

NVIDIA has released a fresh Beta to get you testing all the latest features and fixes. So here's what's new in the NVIDIA 560.28.03 driver Beta for Linux.

As NVIDIA said recently, this is the first release that will use the open GPU kernel modules by default, as long as your GPU supports this. Which is an exciting step for more open source on your system. Plus various Wayland improvements, VRR for notebooks with the open GPU kernel modules and various bug fixes.

From the changelog here's the new additions and major changes:

• Updated nvidia-installer to select the NVIDIA open GPU kernel modules by default on systems with GPUs that support both the proprietary and open kernel modules.
• Added support for EGL_KHR_platform_x11 and EGL_EXT_platform_xcb on Xwayland.
• Added a PipeWire backend to NvFBC that allows it to work on the Wayland compositors that support screencasting via XDG Desktop Portal. This new interface will be available through an upcoming Capture SDK release.
• Added support for multiple concurrent clients to NvFBC direct capture.
• Added reporting of Vulkan information to nvidia-settings control panel.
• Compiling nvidia-settings from source now requires Vulkan header files to be available.
• Support DRM-KMS explicit synchronization via the IN_FENCE_FD mode setting property.
• Support VRR (Variable Refresh Rate) for Wayland on pre-Volta GPUs.
• Added support for Variable Refresh Rate on notebooks with the open kernel modules.
• Updated glXWaitVideoSyncSGI() to be more efficient. This reduces frame stutter in some KDE configurations with GSP offload.

And then the various bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug that caused GPU driver installation to fail when the system used alternate implementations of the 'tr' utility, such as from the busybox or toybox projects.
• Fixed a bug that could cause the wrong image format to be used for render pass image clears in Vulkan applications when using a VkImage created with VK_IMAGE_CREATE_MUTABLE_FORMAT_BIT. This could lead to rendering corruption, as described in issues such as:
  https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/issues/3961
• Fixed multiple issues that could cause crashes or unexpected behaviors when re-creating an NvFBC capture session.
• Fixed a bug that could cause some displays to appear multiple times in the nvidia-settings display layout configuration page on systems with multiple GPUs.
• Fixed a bug that caused OpenGL triple buffering to behave like double buffering.

See more in the changelog.