Issues with Wayland and 3070ti

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Hello,
Today I tried using Wayland for the first time and immediately upon logging in, GreenWithEnvy greeted me with a "NV-CONTROL X extension not found" error and couldn't find my GPU. I opened nvidia-settings and the driver (550.54.14) showed as installed, but all the sub menus on the left were gone.

I tried rolling back to driver 545 but still the same issue.
Is this an expected behaviour and I just have to wait for updates or are there people running Wayland in 17.1 on a 3070ti without issues and maybe it's something on my end that's the problem?

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This is a known issue and it lies with Wayland. The solution is to not use Wayland and log in on the X11 desktop.

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Will do, thanks.
Unfortunate though as the general smoothness around the desktop environment seems greatly improved.

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Nvidia hasn't built out their control panel (and many other control-related parts) to work on Wayland (yet). In typical Nvidia fashion, you get a worse experience using newer tech.

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