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authorTredwellGit <tredwell@tutanota.com>2021-01-05 06:50:20 +0000
committerDominik Xaver Hörl <hoe.dom@gmx.de>2021-03-06 08:47:18 +0100
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nixos/xserver: use modern video drivers
cirrus is obsolete: https://www.vintage3d.org/cirrus.php
nv is obsolete: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_kills_nv&num=1
vesa is obsolete: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nzc3Nw
ati and ati_unfree are superseded by amdgpu and amdgpu-pro: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ATI_FAQ#Is_my_AMD.2FATI_board_supported.3F
nouveau and fbdev added for better fallback support.
Diffstat (limited to 'nixos/modules/services/x11/xserver.nix')
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/x11/xserver.nix b/nixos/modules/services/x11/xserver.nix
index 8858559d8f2..35bd4dabb67 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/x11/xserver.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/x11/xserver.nix
@@ -251,11 +251,10 @@ in
 
       videoDrivers = mkOption {
         type = types.listOf types.str;
-        # !!! We'd like "nv" here, but it segfaults the X server.
-        default = [ "radeon" "cirrus" "vesa" "modesetting" ];
+        default = [ "amdgpu" "radeon" "nouveau" "modesetting" "fbdev" ];
         example = [
-          "ati_unfree" "amdgpu" "amdgpu-pro"
-          "nv" "nvidia" "nvidiaLegacy390" "nvidiaLegacy340" "nvidiaLegacy304"
+          "nvidia" "nvidiaLegacy390" "nvidiaLegacy340" "nvidiaLegacy304"
+          "amdgpu-pro"
         ];
         # TODO(@oxij): think how to easily add the rest, like those nvidia things
         relatedPackages = concatLists