Nvidia Vulkan Driver NVK documentation

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@eadwu That’s a pretty good point, I might be putting the cart before the horse here.

In any case, here’s how I got NVK running.

  • switched to nixos-unstable (stable only has up to kernel 6.6 just now)
  • boot.kernelPackages = pkgs.linuxPackages_6_8;

That puts me on kernel 6.8.4 with Mesa 24.0.3. Oddly, I thought NVK was only going to be available from Mesa 24.1 onward. But it looks like Mesa 24.0.3 will use it:

$ vulkaninfo | grep -i "deviceName\|driverID"
WARNING: NVK is not a conformant Vulkan implementation, testing use only.
        deviceName        = TU102
        driverID        = DRIVER_ID_MESA_NVK
...

At this point steam is throwing some error and I’ve already been shaving the yak all day so I might come back to this later. Here’s my GPU set in case it’s interesting:

$ doas inxi -G
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Raptor Lake-S GT1 [UHD Graphics 770] driver: i915 v: kernel 
           Device-2: NVIDIA TU102 [GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Rev. A] driver: nouveau v: kernel 
           Display: server: X.org 1.21.1.11 driver: loaded: nouveau note: n/a (using device driver) 
           resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo> 
           Message: Advanced graphics data unavailable for root.