Struggling with nvidia prime

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I have an Asus Zenbook, and I’m running nixos-unstable.

nix-shell -p pciutils --run "lspci | grep -E 'VGA|3D'"
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 620 (rev 02)
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107 [GeForce 940MX] (rev a2)

xrandr --listproviders 
Providers: number : 2
Provider 0: id: 0x46 cap: 0xf, Source Output, Sink Output, Source Offload, Sink Offload crtcs: 3 outputs: 4 associated providers: 0 name:modesetting
Provider 1: id: 0xc8 cap: 0x0 crtcs: 0 outputs: 0 associated providers: 0 name:modesetting

nvidia-smi
Fri Jun 25 09:27:59 2021       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 460.73.01    Driver Version: 460.73.01    CUDA Version: 11.2     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                               |                      |               MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  GeForce 940MX       On   | 00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| N/A   34C    P8    N/A /  N/A |      0MiB /  2004MiB |      0%      Default |
|                               |                      |                  N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                  |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                  GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                   Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|  No running processes found                                                 |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"
 - system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 5.10.44, NixOS, 21.05.1153.0ccd0d91361 (Okapi)`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.3.12`
 - channels(root): `"nixos-21.05.1153.0ccd0d91361, nixpkgs-21.11pre297243.b27eaa18b47"`
 - channels(oskar): `"nixpkgs-21.11pre297243.b27eaa18b47"`
 - nixpkgs: `/home/oskar/.nix-defexpr/channels/nixpkgs`

These are the parts of my configuration.nix that are related to the gpu:

let
  nvidia-offload = pkgs.writeShellScriptBin "nvidia-offload" ''
    export __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1
    export __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD_PROVIDER=NVIDIA-G0
    export __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia
    export __VK_LAYER_NV_optimus=NVIDIA_only
    exec -a "$0" "$@"
  '';
in

services.xserver.videoDrivers = [ "modesetting" "nvidia" ];
  hardware.nvidia.nvidiaPersistenced = true;
  hardware.nvidia = {
    prime = {
      offload.enable = true;
      # Bus ID of the Intel GPU. You can find it using lspci, either under 3D or VGA
      intelBusId = "PCI:0:0:2";
      # Bus ID of the NVIDIA GPU. You can find it using lspci, either under 3D or VGA
      nvidiaBusId = "PCI:0:1:0";
    };
    powerManagement.enable = true;
  };

I have read on other forums that modesetting prevented prime offloading from working, but when I don’t include it, I end up in a tty when I boot up the laptop.

glxinfo | grep "OpenGL renderer"
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa Intel(R) HD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2)

nvidia-offload glxinfo | grep "OpenGL renderer"
X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  152 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  24 (X_GLXCreateNewContext)
  Value in failed request:  0x0
  Serial number of failed request:  39
  Current serial number in output stream:  40

I used to be able to use PRIME on arch using optimus-manager.

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This looks like the modesetting issue I believe since the provider that’s suppose to be called NVIDIA-G0 is still modesetting (or at least for me like 2 years ago when I set mine up).

Look at your journalctl to see if there is any other information.

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Seems like it, as I cannot find any mentions of NVIDIA-G0 in journalclt. But I find multiple references of modesetting and screen-modesetting both when I have included modesetting in configuration.nix and when I haven’t. I don’t really know what this means though

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For your bus ids try:

  intelBusId = "0@0:2:0";
  nvidiaBusId = "1@0:0:0";

I have no idea where I got that syntax from, but it works on my AMD/NVIDIA laptop.

nvidia-smi should show Xorg as a process.

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THANK YOU!!! Using this syntax and removing modesetting made it work