My computer is very old and it as a Nvidia geforce 210 (GT218), i as able to nixos-rebuild switch successfully by pinning kernel 6.3 and nvidiaLegacy340 driver on my config file, with that done I rebooted, systemd fires up correctly but when my display manager (gdm) should show up my screen does go blank while the monitor is on (the led indicators are on so i’m confident on this info).
I have tried commented out the services.xserver.videoDrivers = [ “nvidia” ]; and in doing that my graphical interface is functional but the xserver load the open source driver nouveau.
Here is the config
services.xserver = {
enable = true;
layout = “br”;
xkbVariant = “”;videoDrivers = [ “nvidia” ];
displayManager.gdm.enable = true; desktopManager.gnome.enable = true;};
boot.kernelPackages = pkgs.linuxKernel.packages.linux_6_3;
#Gpu Hardware Options
hardware.nvidia = {
modesetting.enable = false;
package = config.boot.kernelPackages.nvidiaPackages.legacy_340;
};
hardware.opengl = {
enable = true;
driSupport = true;
driSupport32Bit = true;
};
Have I done something wrong here or Im just missing information ?
Maybe is lack of documentation on older driver?
Well I hope my explanation was clear if more info is needed let me know.
Thanks for everyone’s time.