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error with hardware.nvidia.open (dell xps 15 7590) #1092
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It was an intentional breaking change NixOS/nixpkgs#337289 (comment) there will need to be some changes to fix it and figure out if it should be turned on for your gpu |
@BCNelson thanks! |
I'm not sure about the specifics. But I do know that it defaulted to false before |
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This requirement was introduced in NixOS#337289 as a way to make sure users "explicitly pick which version of the driver they want since nvidia recommends the open one, but that is incompatible with older drivers". This is reasonable, however the user isn't informed in any real way aside from the upcoming release notes This has caused a [good](NixOS#337289 (comment)) [amount](NixOS#337289 (comment)) [of](NixOS#338196) [confusion](NixOS/nixos-hardware#1092) amongst users. By introducing this assertion and using a new `useOpenModules` local variable, we can have the same behavior but display a proper error message to hopefully clear things up until we can safely make this a default
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on my xps laptop using this flake:
in configuration.nix I have:
hardware.nvidia.prime.offload.enable = true;
nixos rebuild fails with
I assumed this option is set automatically by https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-unstable/pkgs/os-specific/linux/nvidia-x11/default.nix
am I wrong ?
thanks for your help in advance :)
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