My SDL2 project fails to render OpenGL on Nvidia

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I have a project that I’m building myself using a nix shell for its environment. I’m running nixos.
When I run it on Nvidia, the line
r->rdr = SDL_CreateRenderer(r->win, -1, SDL_RENDERER_PRESENTVSYNC| SDL_RENDERER_ACCELERATED);
fails and SDL_Error readout is “Couldn’t find matching render driver”. This issue goes away when I set the renderer flags to 0, but I want to use vsync for my particular project so that won’t suffice.

When I run the app with steam-run, it works correctly. When I run it on Intel, it works properly. Only proprietary Nvidia seems to be failing.

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i haven’t got time right now to go deep dive on this, but when i was having GL type problems with some things on my nixos machine,

it fixed my problem, and i learnt quite a lot about how drivers, opengl and all the low level gfx plumbing works. And the fact that graphics drivers are impure!!! they have to be! :-).

might not be related…

the only thing i can suggest in my time limited response, is anything else in nixpkgs using this code, if so it might help you.

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Now this is strange. I got NixGL repository working, but the only packages it shows are nixGLIntel and NixVulkanIntel. It seems unable to detect my nvidia GPU, or something?

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hunch, this isn’t a laptop with that GPU switching tech… what was it called…ah optimus.

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No. This is a desktop computer with a GTX 1070ti. I used an intel laptop to test the bug, which is not present on Intel.

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can we see the SDL2 project, i’ll see if compiles n runs on my system, with my dreaded nvidia card.

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OK I went to recreate my failing build, but this time it succeeded. I don’t know what I did differently. Where can I put a tarball?

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what an obnoxious site, lol.
https://wormhole.app/4KlAX#2IIaJDNw9Sagon1O0rMONQ

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yeah it’s pretty eyeball stripping, but it’s the best i’ve got so far.

it runs!

configuration.nix:   services.xserver.videoDrivers = [ "nvidia" ];


name of display: :0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
server glx extensions:

[   27.455545] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 242
[   27.456086] nvidia 0000:05:00.0: vgaarb: changed VGA decodes: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem
[   27.826516] nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms  470.63.01  Tue Aug  3 20:30:55 UTC 2021
[   27.835375] nvidia_uvm: module uses symbols from proprietary module nvidia, inheriting taint.
[   27.848609] nvidia-uvm: Loaded the UVM driver, major device number 240.
[   27.855059] [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000500] Loading driver
[   27.855062] [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 20160202 for 0000:05:00.0 on minor 0
[   60.829805] caller _nv000722rm+0x1ad/0x200 [nvidia] mapping multiple BARs

so must be a combination of your hardware / kernel / nvidia driver. or maybe something else!