The SLIM project is abandoned and their last release was in 2013.
Because of this it poses a security risk to systems, no one is working
on it or picked up maintenance. It also lacks compatibility with systemd
and logind sessions. For users, there liikely isn't anything like slim
that's as lightweight in terms of dependencies.
Invoke xrandr to actually connect the device.
Additionally, we let systemd create the logs directory and use our module loader
instead of handling it manually.
A new internal option `hardware.opengl.setLdLibraryPath` is added which controls if `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` should be set to `/run/opengl-driver(-32)/lib`. It is false by default and is meant to be set to true by any driver which requires it. If this option is false, then `opengl.nix` and `xserver.nix` will not set `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
Currently Mesa and NVidia drivers don't set `setLdLibraryPath` because they work with libglvnd and do not override libraries, while `amdgpu-pro`, `ati` and `parallels-guest` set it to true (the former two really need it, the last one doesn't build so is presumed to).
Additionally, the `libPath` attribute within entries of `services.xserver.drivers` is removed. This made `xserver.nix` add the driver path directly to the `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` for the display manager (including X server). Not only is it redundant when the driver is added to `hardware.opengl.package` (assuming that `hardware.opengl.enable` is true), in fact all current drivers except `ati` set it incorrectly to the package path instead of package/lib.
This removal of `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` could break certain packages using CUDA, but only those that themselves load `libcuda` or other NVidia driver libraries using `dlopen` (not if they just use `cudatoolkit`). A few have already been fixed but it is practically impossible to test all because most packages using CUDA are libraries/frameworks without a simple way to test.
Fixes#11434 if only Mesa or NVidia graphics drivers are used.
This adds configuration options which automate the configuration of NVIDIA Optimus using PRIME. This allows using the NVIDIA proprietary driver on Optimus laptops, in order to render using the NVIDIA GPU while outputting to displays connected only to the integrated Intel GPU. It also adds an option for enabling kernel modesetting for the NVIDIA driver (via a kernel command line flag); this is particularly useful together with Optimus/PRIME because it fixes tearing on PRIME-connected screens.
The user still needs to enable the Optimus/PRIME feature and specify the bus IDs of the Intel and NVIDIA GPUs, but this is still much easier for users and more reliable. The implementation handles both the X configuration file as well as getting display managers to run certain necessary `xrandr` commands just after X has started.
Configuration of commands run after X startup is done using a new configuration option `services.xserver.displayManager.setupCommands`. Support for this option is implemented for LightDM, GDM and SDDM; all of these have been tested with this feature including logging into a Plasma session.
Note: support of `setupCommands` for GDM is implemented by making GDM run the session executable via a wrapper; the wrapper will run the `setupCommands` before execing. This seemed like the simplest and most reliable approach, and solves running these commands both for GDM's X server and user X servers (GDM starts separate X servers for itself and user sessions). An alternative approach would be with autostart files but that seems harder to set up and less reliable.
Note that some simple features for X configuration file generation (in `xserver.nix`) are added which are used in the implementation:
- `services.xserver.extraConfig`: Allows adding arbitrary new sections. This is used to add the Device section for the Intel GPU.
- `deviceSection` and `screenSection` within `services.xserver.drivers`. This allows the nvidia configuration module to add additional contents into the `Device` and `Screen` sections of the "nvidia" driver, and not into such sections for other drivers that may be enabled.
Due the recent inclusion of broadcom-bt-firmware in enableAllFirmware,
it was required to set `nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree` to obtain the full
list. To make this dependency more explicit an assertion is added and an
alternative option `enableRedistributalFirmware` is provided to only
obtain firmware with an license allowing redistribution.
The pre-sleep service exits if any command fails. Unloading facetimehd
without it being loaded blocks subsequent commands from running.
Note: `modprobe -r` works a bit better when unloading unused modules,
and is preferrable to `rmmod`. However, the facetimehd module does not
support suspending. In this case, it seems preferable to forcefully
unload the module. `modprobe` does not support a `--force` flag when
removing, so we are left with `rmmod`.
See:
- https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/14883
- https://github.com/patjak/bcwc_pcie/wiki#known-issues
Added configurations to `bumblebee` package to easy multiple monitors on Optimus
machines.
The behaviour of the default `bumblebee` package hasn't change, so this change
is backwards compatible. Users who want to connect a monitor to their discrete
card should use the package `bumblebee_display` instead.
Also added new configuration option to nixos bumblebee module:
```
hardware.bumblebee.connectDisplay = true
```
will enable the new configuration, but the default is still false.
Using primusrun will work as expected in a multilib environment. Even if the initial program
executes a antoehr program of the another architecture. Assuming the program does not modify
LD_LIBRARY_PATH inappropriately.
This does not update virtualgl for seemless multilib. I was unable to get a mixed 64/32 bit
environment to work with VirtualGL. The mechanism VirtualGL uses to inject the fake GL library would
fail if both 32bit and 64 bit libraries were in the environment. Instead the bumblebee package
creates a optirun32 executable that can be used to run a 32bit executable with optimus on a 64 bit
host. This is not created if the host is 32bit.
For my usage, gaming under wine, the primusrun executable works as expected regardless of
32bit/64bit.
Previously all card-specific stuff was scattered across xserver.nix
and opengl.nix, which is ugly. Now it can be kept together in a single
card-specific module. This required the addition of a few internal
options:
- services.xserver.drivers: A list of { name, driverName, modules,
libPath } sets.
- hardware.opengl.package: The OpenGL implementation. Note that there
can be only one OpenGL implementation at a time in a system
configuration (i.e. no dynamic detection).
- hardware.opengl.package32: The 32-bit OpenGL implementation.
Using pkgs.lib on the spine of module evaluation is problematic
because the pkgs argument depends on the result of module
evaluation. To prevent an infinite recursion, pkgs and some of the
modules are evaluated twice, which is inefficient. Using ‘with lib’
prevents this problem.
* Bump bumblebee to 3.2.1
* Remove config.patch - options it added can be passed to ./configure now
* Remove the provided xorg.conf
Provided xorg.conf was causing problems for some users,
and Bumblebee provides its own default configuration anyway.
* Make secondary X11 log to /var/log/X.bumblebee.log
* Add a module for bumblebee
