Cant install nvidia driver on latest kernel

I have driver build issue:

error: builder for '/nix/store/scwvv7fjx1cm561622b97088mjnrmnr9-nvidia-x11-565.77-6.14.2.drv' failed with exit code 2;
       last 25 log lines:
       >   CC [M]  nvidia-modeset/nv-kthread-q.o
       >   CC [M]  nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm.o
       >   CC [M]  nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.o
       >   CC [M]  nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-utils.o
       >   CC [M]  nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-crtc.o
       >   CC [M]  nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-encoder.o
       >   CC [M]  nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-connector.o
       >   CC [M]  nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-gem.o
       > nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.c:1907:6: error: 'struct drm_driver' has no member named 'date'
       >  1907 |     .date                   = "20160202",
       >       |      ^~~~
       > nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.c:1907:31: warning: initialization of 'unsigned int' from 'char *' makes integer from pointer without a cast []
       >  1907 |     .date                   = "20160202",
       >       |                               ^~~~~~~~~~
       > nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.c:1907:31: note: (near initialization for 'nv_drm_driver.driver_features')
       > nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.c:1907:31: error: initializer element is not computable at load time
       > nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.c:1907:31: note: (near initialization for 'nv_drm_driver.driver_features')
       > make[4]: *** [/nix/store/a74p08hp0ay23f2b9l3m0bzdywag9dm9-linux-6.14.2-dev/lib/modules/6.14.2/source/scripts/Makefile.build:207: nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.o] Error 1
       > make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
       > make[3]: *** [/nix/store/a74p08hp0ay23f2b9l3m0bzdywag9dm9-linux-6.14.2-dev/lib/modules/6.14.2/source/Makefile:1994: .] Error 2
       > make[2]: *** [/nix/store/a74p08hp0ay23f2b9l3m0bzdywag9dm9-linux-6.14.2-dev/lib/modules/6.14.2/source/Makefile:251: __sub-make] Error 2
       > make[2]: Leaving directory '/build/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-565.77/kernel'
       > make[1]: *** [Makefile:251: __sub-make] Error 2
       > make[1]: Leaving directory '/nix/store/a74p08hp0ay23f2b9l3m0bzdywag9dm9-linux-6.14.2-dev/lib/modules/6.14.2/source'
       > make: *** [Makefile:115: modules] Error 2
       For full logs, run 'nix-store -l /nix/store/scwvv7fjx1cm561622b97088mjnrmnr9-nvidia-x11-565.77-6.14.2.drv'.
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/fjkg1zavj0wrl3x2waqx66g218qyj0zj-etc.drv' failed to build
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/h90acyg4y6skqf7qr23m88xxhgcfjv6w-firmware.drv' failed to build
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/7038fj7aczwqk3ls4wns0awfbra14am0-linux-6.14.2-modules.drv' failed to build
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/k0812k5d36v46cdy9dh3802v3wqczqzk-system-path.drv' failed to build
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/0pq99wksrznycacapx1b2fnnnp7c04qw-nixos-system-nixos-24.11.716947.26d499fc9f1d.drv' failed to build

my config:

# Edit this configuration file to define what should be installed on
# your system.  Help is available in the configuration.nix(5) man page
# and in the NixOS manual (accessible by running ‘nixos-help’).

{ config, pkgs, ... }:

{
  imports =
    [ # Include the results of the hardware scan.
      ./hardware-configuration.nix
    ];

  # Bootloader.
  boot.loader.systemd-boot.enable = true;
  boot.loader.efi.canTouchEfiVariables = true;
  boot.kernelPackages = pkgs.linuxPackages_latest;
  

  networking.hostName = "nixos"; # Define your hostname.
  # networking.wireless.enable = true;  # Enables wireless support via wpa_supplicant.

  # Configure network proxy if necessary
  # networking.proxy.default = "http://user:password@proxy:port/";
  # networking.proxy.noProxy = "127.0.0.1,localhost,internal.domain";

  # Enable networking
  networking.networkmanager.enable = true;

  # Set your time zone.
  time.timeZone = "Asia/Yekaterinburg";

  # Select internationalisation properties.
  i18n.defaultLocale = "en_US.UTF-8";

  i18n.extraLocaleSettings = {
    LC_ADDRESS = "ru_RU.UTF-8";
    LC_IDENTIFICATION = "ru_RU.UTF-8";
    LC_MEASUREMENT = "ru_RU.UTF-8";
    LC_MONETARY = "ru_RU.UTF-8";
    LC_NAME = "ru_RU.UTF-8";
    LC_NUMERIC = "ru_RU.UTF-8";
    LC_PAPER = "ru_RU.UTF-8";
    LC_TELEPHONE = "ru_RU.UTF-8";
    LC_TIME = "ru_RU.UTF-8";
  };

  # Enable the X11 windowing system.
  # You can disable this if you're only using the Wayland session.
  services.xserver.enable = true;

  # Enable the KDE Plasma Desktop Environment.
  services.displayManager.sddm.enable = true;
  services.displayManager.sddm.wayland.enable = true;

  services.desktopManager.plasma6.enable = true;

  #Nvidia setup
  hardware.graphics = {
    enable = true;
  };

  services.xserver.videoDrivers = ["nvidia"];

  hardware.nvidia = {
    modesetting.enable = true;
    powerManagement.enable = false;
    powerManagement.finegrained = false;
    
    open = false;

    nvidiaSettings = true;
    #package = config.boot.kernelPackages.nvidiaPackages.beta;
    package = config.boot.kernelPackages.nvidiaPackages.latest;
  };

  # Configure keymap in X11
  services.xserver.xkb = {
    layout = "us";
    variant = "";
  };

  # Enable CUPS to print documents.
  services.printing.enable = true;

  # Enable sound with pipewire
  hardware.pulseaudio.enable = false;
  security.rtkit.enable = true;
  services.pipewire = {
    enable = true;
    alsa.enable = true;
    alsa.support32Bit = true;
    pulse.enable = true;
    # If you want to use JACK applications, uncomment this
    #jack.enable = true;

    # use the example session manager (no others are packaged yet so this is enabled by default,
    # no need to redefine it in your config for now)
    #media-session.enable = true;
  };

  # Enable touchpad support (enabled default in most desktopManager).
  # services.xserver.libinput.enable = true;

  # Define a user account. Don't forget to set a password with ‘passwd’.
  users.users.expl01t = {
    isNormalUser = true;
    description = "Alex";
    extraGroups = [ "networkmanager" "wheel" ];
    packages = with pkgs; [
      kdePackages.kate
    #  thunderbird
    ];
  };

  # Install firefox.
  programs.firefox.enable = true;

  # Allow unfree packages
  nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree = true;

  # List packages installed in system profile. To search, run:
  # $ nix search wget
  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
  #  vim # Do not forget to add an editor to edit configuration.nix! The Nano editor is also installed by default.
  #  wget
  
     #Base
     ntfs3g
     helix
     vscode
     vesktop
     telegram-desktop

     #For zapret
     curl
     nftables

     #For dev
     dotnetCorePackages.dotnet_9.sdk
     cargo
     rustc

     #For games
     steam
     wine
  ];

  # Some programs need SUID wrappers, can be configured further or are
  # started in user sessions.
  # programs.mtr.enable = true;
  # programs.gnupg.agent = {
  #   enable = true;
  #   enableSSHSupport = true;
  # };

  # List services that you want to enable:

  # Enable the OpenSSH daemon.
  # services.openssh.enable = true;

  # Open ports in the firewall.
  # networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [ ... ];
  # networking.firewall.allowedUDPPorts = [ ... ];
  # Or disable the firewall altogether.
  # networking.firewall.enable = false;

  # This value determines the NixOS release from which the default
  # settings for stateful data, like file locations and database versions
  # on your system were taken. It‘s perfectly fine and recommended to leave
  # this value at the release version of the first install of this system.
  # Before changing this value read the documentation for this option
  # (e.g. man configuration.nix or on https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html).
  system.stateVersion = "24.11"; # Did you read the comment?
}

And i cant install latest nvidia driver (570.144), nixos installing 565.77

1 Like

Check these maybe:

yep @Expl01t if you copy the settings from my post it will build nvidia 570 drivers against kernel 6.14 (it’s hard coded to downloading 570 though so at some point in the future when newer versions are available you will want to remove/update).

Edit: although my full setup also includes setting up optimus offline mode (for laptops with dual integrated+discrete gpu). If you’re not dealing with that you really just want to take the mkDriver part. If you do want that, you still probably need to correct the pci-e ids for your system.

Thanks, it should work

Not to hijack this thread but I just ran into this too as I see 6.13 series is EOL and was going to test out 6.14.

Is there a reason newer nvidia drivers are not back ported to the 24.11 release channel?