Hi all.
I’m trying to get my HVIDIA card to work with NixOS.
I’ve made the following observations:
- without enabling the graphics driver, the system boots to gnome, no problem
- with the graphics driver enabled, the system boots up and I can SSH into
the machine, but the display doesn’t receive any input - doesn’t matter if I blacklist the
amdgpumodule, display won’t receive any input from the card - even with GDM and Gnome disabled (but NVIDIA drivers left enabled), the display still doesn’t work
- the
journalctl --bootoutput doesn’t show anything that seems problematic to me - it doesn’t matter what options are set in
hardware.nvidia - switching to a different driver package (from beta or unstable) doesn’t change the result
I’m not sure where I can properly debug this issue. My feeling says that it might be the X server, but the log doesn’t show any conclusive error. At the end is just says that X server was properly shut down. I’ve tried several tips I’ve found in several threads in this forum but none of them helped.
Here you can find relevant log files:
Here’s my config:
{
config,
lib,
pkgs,
...
}: let
user = "f44";
# us, de, uk, ...
keymap = "us";
in {
imports = [
# Include the results of the hardware scan.
../hardware_configs/obox.nix
];
boot = {
loader = {
# generic-extlinux-compatible.enable = true
systemd-boot.enable = true;
efi.canTouchEfiVariables = true;
};
# interferes with NVIDIA driver
kernelParams = ["module_blacklist=amdgpu"];
};
virtualisation.vmVariant = {
# following configuration is added only when building VM with build-vm
virtualisation = {
memorySize = 2048; # Use 2048MiB memory.
diskSize = 10240;
cores = 3;
graphics = true;
};
};
nix.extraOptions = "experimental-features = nix-command flakes";
# Enable cross compiling for ARM;
# https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators/tree/master?tab=readme-ov-file#cross-compiling
boot.binfmt.emulatedSystems = ["aarch64-linux"];
networking = {
networkmanager.enable = true;
hostName = "obox";
};
nixpkgs.config = {
allowUnfree = true;
cudaSupport = true;
};
# Set your time zone.
time.timeZone = "Europe/Berlin";
# Select internationalization properties.
i18n.defaultLocale = "de_DE.utf8";
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";
};
# Configure console keymap
console.keyMap = keymap;
# https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/224332
# https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/232286
# https://discourse.nixos.org/t/removing-the-amdgpu-module-from-the-kernel/32374
# https://discourse.nixos.org/t/sddm-fails-to-launch/51469/9
# https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nvidia-the-bane-of-my-existence/51524/7
hardware = {
pulseaudio.enable = false;
bluetooth = {
enable = true; # enables support for Bluetooth
powerOnBoot = true; # powers up the default Bluetooth controller on boot
};
graphics = {
enable = true;
};
nvidia = {
modesetting.enable = true;
open = false;
# Allow headless mode
nvidiaPersistenced = true;
powerManagement.enable = true;
};
};
security.rtkit.enable = true;
services = {
udev.packages = with pkgs; [gnome-settings-daemon];
pipewire = {
enable = true;
alsa.enable = true;
alsa.support32Bit = true;
pulse.enable = true;
jack.enable = true;
wireplumber.enable = true;
};
blueman.enable = true;
# X11 and LXDE
xserver = {
enable = true;
displayManager.gdm.enable = true;
desktopManager.gnome.enable = true;
videoDrivers = ["nvidia"];
};
qemuGuest.enable = true;
};
# Define a user account. Don't forget to set a password with ‘passwd’.
users.users = {
${user} = {
isNormalUser = true;
description = user;
extraGroups = ["networkmanager" "wheel"];
shell = pkgs.nushell;
openssh.authorizedKeys.keys = [
"..."
];
hashedPassword = "...";
};
};
home-manager.users = {
# Main user
${user} = {pkgs, ...}: {
# Allow unfree packages
nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree = true;
home.packages = with pkgs; [
firefox
just
];
programs = {
zoxide = {
enable = true;
enableNushellIntegration = true;
};
};
};
};
services = {
udisks2 = {
enable = true;
mountOnMedia = true;
};
devmon.enable = true;
gvfs.enable = true;
gnome = {
# Enable gnome-keyring to store passwords.
# E.g. allows VScode to store credentials locally after logging in to GitHub.
gnome-keyring.enable = true;
# core-utilities.enable = false;
};
};
fonts.packages = with pkgs; [
noto-fonts
noto-fonts-cjk-sans
noto-fonts-emoji
(nerdfonts.override {fonts = ["FiraCode" "Hack"];})
];
programs = {
dconf.enable = true;
gamemode.enable = true;
steam = {
enable = true;
gamescopeSession.enable = true;
};
};
networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [
];
networking.firewall.allowedUDPPorts = [
];
# 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 = "24.05"; # Did you read the comment?
# system.autoUpgrade.enable = true;
# garbage collect
nix = {
settings.auto-optimise-store = true;
gc = {
automatic = true;
dates = "weekly";
options = "delete-older-than 7d";
};
};
}