Nvidia drivers causing no desktop enviroment

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Hello, I am having an issue where when I install the drivers for my Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti, after I reboot it does not go to a desktop environment, just the CLI of tty1. I have seem similar issues, but none of them have resolved my issue. My DE is Plasma 5. Here is my config file(Minus my User definition):

# 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
    ];
  hardware.graphics = {
    enable = true;
    enable32Bit = true;
  };
  services.xserver.videoDrivers = ["nvidia"];
  hardware.nvidia.open = true;
  hardware.nvidia.modesetting.enable = true;
 # Bootloader.
  boot.loader.grub.enable = true;
  boot.loader.grub.device = "/dev/sda";
  boot.loader.grub.useOSProber = true;

  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 = "America/Detroit";

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

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

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

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

  # 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;


  # Install firefox.
  programs.firefox.enable = true;
  programs.steam.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
  python3
  wine
  libreoffice-qt
  hunspell
  hunspellDicts.en_US
  nemo
  godot_4
  gimp
  blender
  vscodium
  thunderbird
  neofetch
  cowsay
  lolcat
  ];

  # 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?

}
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What’s info shows journalctl -xn 30.

What info does lsmod provide?
Could you share your system info? nixOS 24.11, unstable…
Do you have an iGPU in your processor? Intel/AMD

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I run 24.11 stable. I do have an iGPU, I run a AMD Ryzen 3200G CPU with Radeon RX Vega 8 iGPU. 4 core 4 thread CPU, 8 core GPU.

I don’t really know what to make of the lsmod and journalctl -xn 30 outputs, I am rather new to linux and nixos in specific, but here they are

Apr 29 20:03:32 nixos systemd[1062]: Reached target Timers.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit UNIT has finished successfully
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
░░ 
░░ A start job for unit UNIT has finished successfully.
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░░ The job identifier is 17.
Apr 29 20:03:32 nixos systemd[1062]: Starting D-Bus User Message Bus Socket...
░░ Subject: A start job for unit UNIT has begun execution
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░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
░░ 
░░ A start job for unit UNIT has begun execution.
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░░ The job identifier is 14.
Apr 29 20:03:32 nixos systemd[1062]: Listening on PipeWire PulseAudio.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit UNIT has finished successfully
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
░░ 
░░ A start job for unit UNIT has finished successfully.
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░░ The job identifier is 8.
Apr 29 20:03:32 nixos systemd[1062]: Listening on PipeWire Multimedia System Sockets.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit UNIT has finished successfully
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
░░ 
░░ A start job for unit UNIT has finished successfully.
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░░ The job identifier is 13.
Apr 29 20:03:33 nixos systemd[1062]: Listening on D-Bus User Message Bus Socket.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit UNIT has finished successfully
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
░░ 
░░ A start job for unit UNIT has finished successfully.
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░░ The job identifier is 14.
Apr 29 20:03:33 nixos systemd[1062]: Reached target Sockets.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit UNIT has finished successfully
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
░░ 
░░ A start job for unit UNIT has finished successfully.
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░░ The job identifier is 7.
Apr 29 20:03:33 nixos systemd[1062]: Reached target Basic System.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit UNIT has finished successfully
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
░░ 
░░ A start job for unit UNIT has finished successfully.
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░░ The job identifier is 6.
Apr 29 20:03:33 nixos systemd[1]: Started User Manager for UID 1000.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit user@1000.service has finished successfully
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
░░ 
░░ A start job for unit user@1000.service has finished successfully.
░░ 
░░ The job identifier is 422.
Apr 29 20:03:33 nixos systemd[1062]: Starting Run user-specific NixOS activation...
░░ Subject: A start job for unit UNIT has begun execution
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
░░ 
░░ A start job for unit UNIT has begun execution.
░░ 
░░ The job identifier is 18.
Apr 29 20:03:33 nixos systemd[1]: Started Session 1 of User roland.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit session-1.scope has finished successfully
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
░░ 
░░ A start job for unit session-1.scope has finished successfully.
░░ 
░░ The job identifier is 483.
Apr 29 20:03:33 nixos systemd[1062]: Starting Run KDE Plasma via systemd...
░░ Subject: A start job for unit UNIT has begun execution
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
░░ 
░░ A start job for unit UNIT has begun execution.
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░░ The job identifier is 16.
Apr 29 20:03:33 nixos login[980]: pam_kwallet5(login:session): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_open_session
Apr 29 20:03:33 nixos login[980]: pam_kwallet5(login:session): pam_kwallet5: not a graphical session, skipping. Use force_run parameter to ignore this.
Apr 29 20:03:33 nixos login[980]: pam_kwallet5(login:setcred): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_setcred
Apr 29 20:03:33 nixos nixos-activation-start[1074]: removed '/home/roland/.cache/icon-cache.kcache'
Apr 29 20:03:33 nixos nixos-activation-start[1078]: removed '/home/roland/.cache/ksycoca5_en_65yjkDinDniwUAG5I1j97Y6Maqk='
Apr 29 20:03:33 nixos nixos-activation-start[1078]: removed '/home/roland/.cache/ksycoca5_en_dYXWOEITDBve6zK_u+JvX5UFtCU='
Apr 29 20:03:33 nixos nixos-activation-start[1078]: removed '/home/roland/.cache/ksycoca5_en_FY3gJGf23q702+dxqiAEV_ittII='
Apr 29 20:03:33 nixos nixos-activation-start[1078]: removed '/home/roland/.cache/ksycoca5_en__k1A4IJCdr5nirQ3yV6O9zXR0UA='
Apr 29 20:03:33 nixos nixos-activation-start[1078]: removed '/home/roland/.cache/ksycoca5_en_lVPGN5jPiUUqt+LLcFS5QUyY8zI='
Apr 29 20:03:33 nixos nixos-activation-start[1078]: removed '/home/roland/.cache/ksycoca5_en_mZqW9X_hQQ8MUkR0AcJVzatGHiY='
Apr 29 20:03:33 nixos nixos-activation-start[1078]: removed '/home/roland/.cache/ksycoca5_en_NVAW0Zr+qZAnuAfcJEgkcODnbIw='
Apr 29 20:03:33 nixos systemd[1062]: Finished Run KDE Plasma via systemd.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit UNIT has finished successfully
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
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░░ A start job for unit UNIT has finished successfully.
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░░ The job identifier is 16.
Apr 29 20:03:33 nixos nixos-activation-start[1079]: kbuildsycoca5 running...
Apr 29 20:03:35 nixos systemd[1062]: Finished Run user-specific NixOS activation.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit UNIT has finished successfully
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
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░░ A start job for unit UNIT has finished successfully.
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░░ The job identifier is 18.
Apr 29 20:03:35 nixos systemd[1062]: Reached target Main User Target.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit UNIT has finished successfully
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
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░░ A start job for unit UNIT has finished successfully.
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░░ The job identifier is 5.
Apr 29 20:03:35 nixos systemd[1062]: Startup finished in 3.195s.
░░ Subject: User manager start-up is now complete
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
░░ 
░░ The user manager instance for user 1000 has been started. All services queued
░░ for starting have been started. Note that other services might still be starting
░░ up or be started at any later time.
░░ 
░░ Startup of the manager took 3195719 microseconds.
Apr 29 20:03:36 nixos systemd[1]: NetworkManager-dispatcher.service: Deactivated successfully.
░░ Subject: Unit succeeded
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
░░ 
░░ The unit NetworkManager-dispatcher.service has successfully entered the 'dead' state.
Apr 29 20:03:36 nixos systemd[1]: NetworkManager-dispatcher.service: Consumed 56ms CPU time, 10.4M memory peak, 6.2M read from disk.
░░ Subject: Resources consumed by unit runtime
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
░░ 
░░ The unit NetworkManager-dispatcher.service completed and consumed the indicated resources.
Apr 29 20:03:51 nixos systemd[1]: systemd-hostnamed.service: Deactivated successfully.
░░ Subject: Unit succeeded
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
░░ 
░░ The unit systemd-hostnamed.service has successfully entered the 'dead' state.


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rfkill                 40960  1
xt_conntrack           12288  2
nf_conntrack          204800  1 xt_conntrack
nf_defrag_ipv6         24576  1 nf_conntrack
nf_defrag_ipv4         12288  1 nf_conntrack
ip6t_rpfilter          12288  1
ipt_rpfilter           12288  1
xt_pkttype             12288  2
xt_LOG                 16384  2
nf_log_syslog          24576  2
xt_tcpudp              16384  3
nft_compat             24576  11
nf_tables             376832  101 nft_compat
libcrc32c              12288  2 nf_conntrack,nf_tables
sch_fq_codel           20480  2
uinput                 20480  0
edac_mce_amd           53248  0
edac_core             110592  0
intel_rapl_msr         20480  0
snd_hda_codec_realtek   200704  1
intel_rapl_common      40960  1 intel_rapl_msr
snd_hda_codec_generic   110592  1 snd_hda_codec_realtek
ledtrig_audio          12288  1 snd_hda_codec_generic
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     98304  1
input_leds             12288  0
led_class              20480  2 snd_hda_codec_generic,input_leds
snd_hda_intel          65536  0
crc32_pclmul           12288  0
snd_intel_dspcfg       36864  1 snd_hda_intel
polyval_clmulni        12288  0
joydev                 24576  0
snd_intel_sdw_acpi     16384  1 snd_intel_dspcfg
polyval_generic        12288  1 polyval_clmulni
mousedev               24576  0
gf128mul               16384  1 polyval_generic
snd_hda_codec         217088  4 snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_realtek
snd_hda_core          139264  5 snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_codec_realtek
snd_hwdep              20480  1 snd_hda_codec
ghash_clmulni_intel    16384  0
sha512_ssse3           53248  0
snd_pcm               184320  4 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_core
r8169                 118784  0
sha256_ssse3           32768  0
snd_timer              49152  1 snd_pcm
sha1_ssse3             32768  0
aesni_intel           360448  0
sp5100_tco             20480  0
snd                   151552  8 snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hwdep,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_timer,snd_pcm
realtek                40960  1
watchdog               49152  1 sp5100_tco
mdio_devres            12288  1 r8169
crypto_simd            16384  1 aesni_intel
soundcore              16384  1 snd
libphy                212992  3 r8169,mdio_devres,realtek
evdev                  28672  19
cryptd                 28672  2 crypto_simd,ghash_clmulni_intel
mac_hid                12288  0
gigabyte_wmi           12288  0
rapl                   20480  0
wmi_bmof               12288  0
acpi_cpufreq           32768  0
k10temp                16384  0
i2c_piix4              32768  0
video                  77824  0
backlight              28672  1 video
gpio_amdpt             16384  0
thermal                28672  0
gpio_generic           20480  1 gpio_amdpt
tiny_power_button      12288  0
wmi                    45056  3 video,gigabyte_wmi,wmi_bmof
button                 24576  0
ecc                    40960  0
atkbd                  40960  0
libps2                 24576  1 atkbd
serio                  28672  1 atkbd
vivaldi_fmap           12288  1 atkbd
loop                   40960  0
tun                    69632  0
tap                    32768  0
macvlan                36864  0
bridge                397312  0
stp                    12288  1 bridge
llc                    16384  2 bridge,stp
ccp                   155648  0
rng_core               20480  1 ccp
kvm                  1347584  0
irqbypass              12288  1 kvm
fuse                  192512  1
efi_pstore             12288  0
configfs               69632  1
nfnetlink              20480  3 nft_compat,nf_tables
dmi_sysfs              24576  0
ip_tables              28672  0
x_tables               53248  8 xt_conntrack,ip6t_rpfilter,nft_compat,xt_LOG,xt_tcpudp,ipt_rpfilter,xt_pkttype,ip_tables
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ext4                 1146880  1
crc32c_generic         12288  0
crc16                  12288  1 ext4
mbcache                16384  1 ext4
jbd2                  204800  1 ext4
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hid_generic            12288  0
uas                    32768  1
usb_storage            94208  1 uas
usbhid                 81920  2 hid_logitech_dj,hid_logitech_hidpp
sd_mod                 90112  1
hid                   180224  4 usbhid,hid_generic,hid_logitech_dj,hid_logitech_hidpp
t10_pi                 20480  1 sd_mod
sr_mod                 28672  0
cdrom                  81920  1 sr_mod
crc64_rocksoft         16384  1 t10_pi
crc64                  16384  1 crc64_rocksoft
crc_t10dif             16384  1 t10_pi
crct10dif_generic      12288  0
ahci                   57344  0
libahci                61440  1 ahci
libata                487424  2 libahci,ahci
xhci_pci               28672  0
xhci_pci_renesas       24576  1 xhci_pci
scsi_mod              327680  5 sd_mod,usb_storage,uas,libata,sr_mod
crct10dif_pclmul       12288  1
crct10dif_common       12288  3 crct10dif_generic,crc_t10dif,crct10dif_pclmul
xhci_hcd              389120  1 xhci_pci
crc32c_intel           16384  3
scsi_common            16384  6 scsi_mod,sd_mod,usb_storage,uas,libata,sr_mod
rtc_cmos               28672  1
dm_mod                217088  0
dax                    53248  1 dm_mod
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This is my Nvidia Block for my RTX4060 idk maybe you can just try to copy it

{
  config,
  ...
}:
{
  services.xserver.videoDrivers = [ "nvidia" ];
  nixpkgs.config.nvidia.acceptLicense = true;

  hardware.nvidia = {
    modesetting.enable = true;
    powerManagement.enable = false;
    powerManagement.finegrained = false;
    open = false;
    nvidiaSettings = false;
    package = config.boot.kernelPackages.nvidiaPackages.beta;
  };
  boot.kernelParams = [ "nvidia-drm.fbdev=1" ];
}
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I don’t think your GPU is supported by nvidia-open.

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Echsm’s config worked! When I get the chance, I will see what particularly fixed it, but for now it works.