Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 Laptop, Graphics Card does not work

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Hello,

I’m new on this forum, so this is my first post. I have a Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 Laptop (With AMD CPU + iGPU and Geforce 3050 RTX). NIXOS 22.11

I followed the Hardware Quirks github (GitHub - NixOS/nixos-hardware: A collection of NixOS modules covering hardware quirks.),
imported the settings specifically for my hardware and updated the channel.

But I’m not sure if I did everything correctly, because I cannot use my laptops graphics card.
Nvidia X Server Settings shows no graphics options at all.
Before I was using NIXOS, Nvidia Graphics worked as expected with the newest Arch.

configuration.nix 
## 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, lib, ... }:

let
 nvidia-offload = pkgs.writeShellScriptBin "nvidia-offload" ''
  export __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1
  export __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD_PROVIDER=NVIDIA-G0
  export __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia
  export __VK_LAYER_NV_optimus=NVIDIA_only
  exec "$@"
 '';
in

{
  imports =
    [ # Include the results of the hardware scan.
      <nixos-hardware/lenovo/ideapad/15arh05>
      ./hardware-configuration.nix
    ];

  # Bootloader.
  boot.loader.systemd-boot.enable = true;
  boot.loader.efi.canTouchEfiVariables = true;
  boot.loader.efi.efiSysMountPoint = "/boot/efi";
  boot.supportedFilesystems = [ "ntfs" ];

  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 = "Europe/Berlin";

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

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

  # Enable the X11 windowing system.
  services.xserver.enable = true;

  #startx
  services.xserver.displayManager.startx.enable = true;
  
# Enable the KDE Plasma Desktop Environment.
  services.xserver.displayManager.sddm.enable = true;
  services.xserver.desktopManager.plasma5.enable = true;

  # Configure keymap in X11
  services.xserver = {
    layout = "de";
    xkbVariant = "";
  };
  hardware.nvidia.modesetting.enable = true;
  services.xserver.videoDrivers = [ "nvidia" ];
  hardware.nvidia.prime = {
   offload.enable = true;
   amdgpuBusId = "PCI:5:0:0";
   nvidiaBusId = "PCI:1:0:0";
  }; 
  hardware.opengl.enable = true;
  services.thermald.enable = lib.mkDefault true;

  services.tlp.settings = {
   GPU_SCALING_GOVERNOR_ON_BAT = "schedutil";
  };

  # Configure console keymap
  console.keyMap = "de";

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

  # Enable sound with pipewire.
  sound.enable = true;
  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.laptop = {
    isNormalUser = true;
    description = "laptop";
    extraGroups = [ "networkmanager" "wheel" ];
    packages = with pkgs; [
      firefox
      kate
      thunderbird
      ntfs3g
      vivaldi
      chromium
      gzdoom
      enyo-launcher
      fsearch
      xfce.thunar
      mesa
    ];
  };

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

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

  # 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 = "22.11"; # Did you read the comment?

}


+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 520.56.06    Driver Version: 520.56.06    CUDA Version: 11.8     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                               |                      |               MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce ...  Off  | 00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| N/A   31C    P0    N/A /  N/A |      4MiB /  4096MiB |      0%      Default |
|                               |                      |                  N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                  |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                  GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                   Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A      1083      G   ...xorg-server-1.20.14/bin/X        4MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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It looks like you are set up for offload rendering. What makes you claim that you can’t use your dGPU?

I recently had to update my nvidia-offload script so perhaps you need something like this: nvidia-offload: export NVIDIA ICD file · emmanuelrosa/erosanix@0274340 · GitHub

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Glxgears and the game I wanted to play works now. It is basically my fault, because I have no prior experience with nvidia-offloading and did not use “nvidia-offload glxgears” as a command (for example). Now everything works fine. Thank you for your time.