From 7acf6a1c13935a5a5b4fb8b4a078697bf322dca3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eve <evesnrobins@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2025 12:22:42 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] added nvidia-drivers as a seperate file and imported to
 config file

---
 .../nixos/emergent/configuration.nix          |  1 +
 .../nixos/emergent/nvidia-drivers.nix         | 42 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 43 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 configurations/nixos/emergent/nvidia-drivers.nix

diff --git a/configurations/nixos/emergent/configuration.nix b/configurations/nixos/emergent/configuration.nix
index 4325eb3..389dfe5 100644
--- a/configurations/nixos/emergent/configuration.nix
+++ b/configurations/nixos/emergent/configuration.nix
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
   ...
 }: {
   imports = [
+    ./nvidia-drivers.nix
   ];
 
   # Use the systemd-boot EFI boot loader.
diff --git a/configurations/nixos/emergent/nvidia-drivers.nix b/configurations/nixos/emergent/nvidia-drivers.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4df1b67
--- /dev/null
+++ b/configurations/nixos/emergent/nvidia-drivers.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
+{
+
+  # Enable OpenGL
+  hardware.graphics = {
+    enable = true;
+  };
+
+  # Load nvidia driver for Xorg and Wayland
+  services.xserver.videoDrivers = ["nvidia"];
+
+  hardware.nvidia = {
+
+    # Modesetting is required.
+    modesetting.enable = true;
+
+    # Nvidia power management. Experimental, and can cause sleep/suspend to fail.
+    # Enable this if you have graphical corruption issues or application crashes after waking
+    # up from sleep. This fixes it by saving the entire VRAM memory to /tmp/ instead 
+    # of just the bare essentials.
+    powerManagement.enable = false;
+
+    # Fine-grained power management. Turns off GPU when not in use.
+    # Experimental and only works on modern Nvidia GPUs (Turing or newer).
+    powerManagement.finegrained = false;
+
+    # Use the NVidia open source kernel module (not to be confused with the
+    # independent third-party "nouveau" open source driver).
+    # Support is limited to the Turing and later architectures. Full list of 
+    # supported GPUs is at: 
+    # https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules#compatible-gpus 
+    # Only available from driver 515.43.04+
+    open = false;
+
+    # Enable the Nvidia settings menu,
+	# accessible via `nvidia-settings`.
+    nvidiaSettings = true;
+
+    # Optionally, you may need to select the appropriate driver version for your specific GPU.
+    package = config.boot.kernelPackages.nvidiaPackages.stable;
+  };
+ }
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