[Nix-dev] Broken OpenGL

[Mateusz Kowalczyk]

On 04/25/2014 10:17 PM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 10:08:40PM +0200, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote:
>> On 04/22/2014 01:12 AM, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> My OpenGL seems to be rather broken.
>>
>> I had since bought a dedicated nVidia graphics card and no longer have
>> the problem.
>>
>> I'd still love to know how to tell NixOS to use a specific driver
>> version: it's not unusual for some versions to break everything ever.
> 
> Nixpkgs doesn't use to have multiple versions, unless there is a good reason.

Is ‘my graphics driver doesn't work properly, I want to try a different
version’ not a good reason?

> You maybe can use config.nixpkgs.packageOverrides to override some package with
> any of your own... but as for a dri driver, it may be tricky. Ask here when it
> happens and we'll see.

It did happen for the last week which is I started this thread to begin
with. I am rather out of resources right now to chase up the issue but
surely the ability to change graphics driver versions on NixOS would be
useful to someone. In fact, there was someone in #nixos just asking
about this the other day.


-- 
Mateusz K.