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  1. Bug #1733136
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 1733136

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Rocko (rockorequin) wrote : Re: wayland session in Ubuntu 18.04 chooses vmware driver on intel hardware

But I did install the nvidia driver from a deb file (from one of the graphics driver PPAs). (What makes you suspect that I installed it using the nvidia installer?)

It's true that the first time you install the nvidia driver (and I mean via the PPA deb file), it tends to make /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so and /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so point at the nvidia drivers, but this isn't the case in my setup, which works fine in artful, just not in bionic. (You just have to run "sudo prime-select intel" to fix this.)

I guess that the affected package should probably be gdm3 instead of gnome-shell since gdm3 is already running under X on llvmpipe by the time it runs gnome-shell. Is there a way to figure out why gdm3 can't run in a Wayland session, eg log messages describing why it rejects the Intel MESA driver?