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.
By default, OnlyKey device (https://crp.to/p/) won't work on Linux (and,
therefore, NixOS). This is unintuitive and requires one to search for a
solution in the documentation.
This change allows one to enable OnlyKey device support directly from
their NixOS configuration.
Resolved the following conflicts (by carefully applying patches from the both
branches since the fork point):
pkgs/development/libraries/epoxy/default.nix
pkgs/development/libraries/gtk+/3.x.nix
pkgs/development/python-modules/asgiref/default.nix
pkgs/development/python-modules/daphne/default.nix
pkgs/os-specific/linux/systemd/default.nix
* digitalbitbox: init at 2.2.2
The commits that lead to this have been squashed from independent
commits see branch @vidbina/add/digitalbitbox-wip that did the
following:
- 0a3030fa0ec digitalbitbox: init at 2.2.2
- c18ffa3ffd4 digitalbitbox: moved meta to EOF
- 0c5f3d6972a digitalbitbox: using preConfigure + configureFlags
- a85b1dfc3fd digitalbitbox: nativeBuildInputs
- 90bdd35ef0f digitalbitbox: autoreconfHook
- 91810eea055 digitalbitbox: default installPhase & makeWrapper
- 90e43fb7e2a digitalbitbox: doc rm $PWD hack & printf-tee deal
- fd033b2fe5a digitalbitbox: cleanup, alphabetically sort attrs
- c5907982db3 digitalbitbox: added hardware module
- 88e46bc9ae0 digitalbitbox: added program module
- amend to change name: dbb-app -> digitalbitbox
- amend to add install instructions based on feedback
(https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/33787#issuecomment-362813149)
- amend to add longDescription
- moved program to its own dir
- overridable udev rules handling
- added docs to manual
- added package attr to program module
- added package attr to hardware module
* digitalbitbox: use libsForQt5.callPackage
All available options were just enabling
hardware.enableRedistributableFirmware. There were nix files without
modules which weren't referenced anywhere.
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.
