XP-Pen Artist 15.6 Pro's screen not displaying properly

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Hi. I recently got a new graphics tablet with a screen on it. Everything on it is working fine (buttons, pen, etc. as I've installed the official driver) except the screen. It is only showing (after I've logged in) exactly the upper half of the screen, the bottom half being white. The weird thing is that before the login screen, in the boot up screen the HDMI output is working perfectly, showing all of the Zorin logo and the black screen from the boot up, and also that my cursor can go to the bottom of the screen back up without going into the "white zone". The entire screen also sometimes flashes white, still not covering my cursor. I believe this is related to either the nvidia driver or something along those lines, but I haven't been able to find any driver that could fix this, so I may be completly wrong about that.

I'm also using wayland, but otherwise I have no clue. I've scraped the Zorin forums for info without finding anything.

This issue hasn't affected any of my main screen's performance or visuals, only my tablet. Can someone help me out?

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Also I have tried Mirror display AND Join display, none seem to be affecting the issue. Also also I was wrong about the cursor being on top of the white zone and the white flashing.

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This is prior to reaching the desktop, so at this stage, you would be seeing compositing by Xorg and probably kernel mode setting.

What you describe next definitely sounds like Nvida and Wayland clashing in combination with Gnomes Mutter compositing.
Have you tested using Zorin on Xorg?

Mutter will try to pipe through Wayland's DRM setting.
On Wayland with Nvidia, you might maybe have luck adding options nvidia-drm modeset=1 to /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf, but if Xorg works, that is more a solution, whereas setting Nvidia's modeset is more of a workaround.

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Oh wow, I just had to switch to Xorg. I literally didn't know what Xorg was (I'm still a fairly new Linux user) so that's probably why I didn't know it was the problem. Thanks a bunch!

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