";
```
And then use it in your config:
```NIX
pkgs-nvidia = import nixpkgs-nvidia {
inherit system;
config.allowUnfree = true;
};
```
```auto
{ pkgs-nvidia, ... }:
{
hardware.nvidia = {
package = (pkgs-nvidia.linuxPackagesFor config.boot.kernelPackages.kernel).nvidiaPackages.stable;
};
}
```
Rebuild, reboot, and then run `nvidia-smi` to confirm your driver version.
Hope this helps somebody.
---
### Author:  [@TLATER](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/TLATER)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2026, 4:55am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nvidia-drivers-update/33872/7 "2026-05-13T04:55:16Z")
Instead of doing that, I would recommend just overriding the nvidia package. It’ll build faster, use less disk space, and leave you less vulnerable to weaknesses in the supply chain. You’d do that like so:
```nix
{ config, lib, ... }: {
hardware.nvidia.package = config.boot.kernelPackages.nvidiaPackages.mkDriver {
version = "580.142"; # Or any other version
# Make sure to set these to `lib.fakeHash`
# every time you change the version - nix
# will trust them, and not redownload the driver.
sha256_64bit = lib.fakeHash;
openSha256 = lib.fakeHash;
settingsSha256 = lib.fakeHash;
# headless servers only feature, disabling at
# the package level because that's one less
# hash to define.
usePersistenced = false;
};
}
```
Just replace the hashes when nix complains, and you have yourself a perfectly cromulent nvidia driver built with the latest gcc.
---
### Author:  [@ElnuDev](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/ElnuDev)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2026, 6:56am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nvidia-drivers-update/33872/8 "2026-05-13T06:56:24Z")
Thank you so much! That’s much better. Got it to build 595.58.03 without any issues.
```NIX
hardware.nvidia.package = config.boot.kernelPackages.nvidiaPackages.mkDriver {
version = "595.58.03";
sha256_64bit = "sha256-jA1Plnt5MsSrVxQnKu6BAzkrCnAskq+lVRdtNiBYKfk=";
openSha256 = lib.fakeHash;
settingsSha256 = "sha256-2vLF5Evl2D6tRQJo0uUyY3tpWqjvJQ0/Rpxan3NOD3c=";
# headless servers only feature, disabling at
# the package level because that's one less
# hash to define.
usePersistenced = false;
};
```
For whatever reason while it would fail without `openSha256` (“This version of NVIDIA driver does not provide a GSP firmware.”), it never complained about the placeholder hash, which is kind of odd.
---
### Author:  [@TLATER](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/TLATER)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2026, 7:00am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nvidia-drivers-update/33872/9 "2026-05-13T07:00:28Z")
> [@ElnuDev](#):
>
> it never complained about the placeholder hash, which is kind of odd
That’s likely because you have set `hardware.nvidia.open = false;` - in that case, the open driver is never actually built, so nothing checks the hash. You can probably disable the hash requirement by setting `open = false` in the `mkDriver` args or something, have a look at the source code to see what arguments it takes.
I would recommend using the open variant though, assuming your GPU is not ancient, the non-open variant is practically obsolete. Switching to open might even fix your issue with the latest driver.
Edit:
Right, if you don’t want to build the open driver, [you have to set its hash explicitly to `null`](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/593735769d4cbd6e04c5d292315e46975f0f116b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/nvidia-x11/generic.nix#L58), or fully omit it.
---
### Author:  [@ElnuDev](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/ElnuDev)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2026, 6:09pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nvidia-drivers-update/33872/10 "2026-05-13T18:09:12Z")
Got it, thanks. Even with the open variant I get the crash on 595.71.05 though; I originally switched to `open = false;` because it anecdotally seemed like I was getting a fewer graphical bugs on it, especially on suspend. With the open version i3wm was very often frozen on a black screen after suspending and I have yet to have the same happen with non-open drivers