nixpkgs/pkgs/tools/X11/bumblebee/default.nix

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# The bumblebee package allows a program to be rendered on an
# dedicated video card by spawning an additional X11 server
# and streaming the results via VirtualGL to the primary server.
# The package is rather chaotic; it's also quite recent.
# As it may change a lot, some of the hacks in this nix expression
# will hopefully not be needed in the future anymore.
# To test: make sure that the 'bbswitch' kernel module is installed,
# then run 'bumblebeed' as root and 'optirun glxgears' as user.
# To use at startup, add e.g. to configuration.nix:
# jobs = {
# bumblebeed = {
# name = "bumblebeed";
# description = "Manages the Optimus video card";
# startOn = "started udev and started syslogd";
# stopOn = "starting shutdown";
# exec = "bumblebeed --use-syslog";
# path = [ pkgs.bumblebee ];
# environment = { MODULE_DIR = "${config.system.modulesTree}/lib/modules"; };
# respawn = true;
# };
# };
# This nix expression supports for now only the native nvidia driver.
# It should not be hard to generalize this approach to support the
# nouveau driver as well (parameterize commonEnv over the module
# package, and parameterize the two wrappers as well)
{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, help2man
, libX11, glibc, glib, libbsd
, makeWrapper, buildEnv, module_init_tools
, linuxPackages, virtualgl, xorg, xkeyboard_config
}:
let
version = "3.0";
name = "bumblebee-${version}";
# isolated X11 environment with the nvidia module
# it should include all components needed for bumblebeed and
# optirun to spawn the second X server and to connect to it.
commonEnv = buildEnv {
name = "bumblebee-env";
paths = [
module_init_tools
linuxPackages.nvidia_x11
xorg.xorgserver
xorg.xrandr
xorg.xrdb
xorg.setxkbmap
xorg.libX11
xorg.libXext
virtualgl
];
# the nvidia GLX module overwrites the one of xorgserver,
# thus nvidia_x11 must be before xorgserver in the paths.
ignoreCollisions = true;
};
# Custom X11 configuration for the additional xserver instance.
xorgConf = ./xorg.conf.nvidia;
in stdenv.mkDerivation {
inherit name;
src = fetchurl {
url = "http://github.com/downloads/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/${name}.tar.gz";
sha256 = "a27ddb77b282ac8b972857fdb0dc5061cf0a0982b7ac3e1cfa698b4f786e49a1";
};
# 'config.patch' makes bumblebee read the active module and the nvidia configuration
# from the environment variables instead of the config file:
# BUMBLEBEE_DRIVER, BUMBLEBEE_LDPATH_NVIDIA, BUMBLEBEE_MODPATH_NVIDIA
# These variables must be set when bumblebeed and optirun are executed.
patches = [ ./config.patch ./xopts.patch ];
preConfigure = ''
# Substitute the path to the actual modinfo program in module.c.
# Note: module.c also calls rmmod and modprobe, but those just have to
# be in PATH, and thus no action for them is required.
substituteInPlace src/module.c \
--replace "/sbin/modinfo" "${module_init_tools}/sbin/modinfo"
# Don't use a special group, just reuse wheel.
substituteInPlace configure \
--replace 'CONF_GID="bumblebee"' 'CONF_GID="wheel"'
# Ensures that the config file ends up with a nonempty
# name of the nvidia module. This is needed, because the
# configuration handling code otherwise resets the
# data that we obtained from the environment (see config.patch)
export CONF_DRIVER_MODULE_NVIDIA=nvidia
'';
# Build-time dependencies of bumblebeed and optirun.
# Note that it has several runtime dependencies.
buildInputs = [ stdenv makeWrapper pkgconfig help2man libX11 glib libbsd ];
# create a wrapper environment for bumblebeed and optirun
postInstall = ''
# remove some entries from the configuration file that would otherwise
# cause our environment variables to be ignored.
substituteInPlace "$out/etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf" \
--replace "LibraryPath=" "" \
--replace "XorgModulePath=" ""
wrapProgram "$out/sbin/bumblebeed" \
--prefix PATH : "${commonEnv}/sbin:${commonEnv}/bin:\$PATH" \
--prefix LD_LIBRARY_PATH : "${commonEnv}/lib:\$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" \
--set BUMBLEBEE_DRIVER "nvidia" \
--set BUMBLEBEE_LDPATH_NVIDIA "${commonEnv}/lib" \
--set BUMBLEBEE_MODPATH_NVIDIA "${commonEnv}/lib/xorg/modules" \
--set FONTCONFIG_FILE "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf" \
--set XKB_BINDIR "${xorg.xkbcomp}/bin" \
--set XKB_DIR "${xkeyboard_config}/etc/X11/xkb"
wrapProgram "$out/bin/optirun" \
--prefix PATH : "${commonEnv}/sbin:${commonEnv}/bin" \
--prefix LD_LIBRARY_PATH : "${commonEnv}/lib" \
--set BUMBLEBEE_DRIVER "nvidia" \
--set BUMBLEBEE_LDPATH_NVIDIA "${commonEnv}/lib" \
--set BUMBLEBEE_MODPATH_NVIDIA "${commonEnv}/lib/xorg/modules"
cp ${xorgConf} "$out/etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia"
'';
meta = {
homepage = http://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee;
description = "Daemon for managing Optimus videocards (power-on/off, spawns xservers)";
license = "free";
};
}