| 21 Aug 2025 |
 luke-skywalker | I ran into this issue with the latest nvidia driver (580.76.05) crashing gtk apps and GPU accelerated apps like zed editor on latest linux kernel (6.16.1) on wayland.
Im kind of overwhelmed by all the available packages. Can someone give me a quick hint on which of all the available packages I can safely revert back to?
| 13:23:10 |
| luke-skywalker | * I ran into this issue with the latest nvidia driver (580.76.05) crashing gtk apps and GPU accelerated apps like zed editor with latest linux kernel (6.16.1) on wayland.
Im kind of overwhelmed by all the available packages. Can someone give me a quick hint on which of all the available packages I can safely revert back to?
| 13:23:27 |
| luke-skywalker | * I ran into this issue with the latest nvidia driver (580.76.05) crashing gtk apps and GPU accelerated apps like zed editor with latest linux kernel (6.16.1) on wayland.
I am installing the nvidia drivers from the nvidia-container-toolkit.
Im kind of overwhelmed by all the available packages. Can someone give me a quick hint on which of all the available packages I can safely revert back to?
| 13:25:20 |
| luke-skywalker | * I ran into this issue with the latest nvidia driver (580.76.05) crashing gtk apps and GPU accelerated apps like zed editor with latest linux kernel (6.16.1) on wayland.
I am installing the nvidia drivers from the nvidia-container-toolkit.
Can someone give me a quick hint on which of all the available packages I can safely revert back to? I'm kind of overwhelmed by all the available packages.
| 13:40:31 |
 connor (burnt/out) (UTC-8) | What do you mean the drivers from nvidia-container-toolkit? Your NixOS config should have something like this, right? https://github.com/ConnorBaker/nixos-configs/blob/5b9fe63698ee14a52a8187cd34ba769203fae24e/modules/nvidia.nix#L18
You should be able to select the version of the driver you want to use by changing that. | 14:45:00 |
|  infinisil joined the room. | 23:36:59 |
| infinisil | Does the CUDA team want to add a slide for NixCon's state of the union? The board and SC are reaching out to various teams to prepare a shared slide deck here, and I reserved a slot for the CUDA team :) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/191-Bgwv6Bdb4KBzIfyAyZBftI0rSuCBo-_tSPrTSrtE/edit?slide=id.g376eb5e3048_2_152#slide=id.g376eb5e3048_2_152
| 23:38:14 |
| infinisil | @connor (he/him) (UTC-7) @SomeoneSerge (Ever OOMed by Element) @Samuel Ainsworth ^ | 23:38:31 |
| infinisil | You can PM me your google email to get permissions to edit | 23:38:39 |
| 22 Aug 2025 |
| connor (burnt/out) (UTC-8) | Sure! I’ll let Serge know as well since I have him on Signal | 00:52:56 |
 stick | connor (he/him) (UTC-7): jfyi i tried to update cusparselt to 0.8.0 using your redist scripts, but it failed - it seems the scripts need to be adjusted somehow | 09:42:02 |
| 23 Aug 2025 |
| stick | Found the issue
New releases contain files to cuda12 and cuda13, introducing another level in json
See
https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cusparselt/redist/redistrib_0.7.1.json
vs
https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cusparselt/redist/redistrib_0.8.0.json | 12:18:03 |
| stick | I manually edited the json to adhere to the old scheme and will create a cusparselt update PR although it is not ideal and i suspect the upcoming cuda releases will use the newer scheme too | 12:23:03 |
| stick | cusparselt PR in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/436186 | 12:42:56 |
|  Lun joined the room. | 21:07:38 |
| Lun |
TODO: 2. We should probably abandon attributes such as torchWithCuda (etc.)
as they routinely end up consuming the wrong arguments\
(dependencies without cuda support).
Instead we should rely on overlays and nixpkgsFun.
(@SomeoneSerge)
_tritonEffective ?
Is there an issue tracking dropping WithCuda aliases/a discussion thread about this somewhere?
| 21:43:20 |
| Lun | *
# TODO: 2. We should probably abandon attributes such as `torchWithCuda` (etc.)
# as they routinely end up consuming the wrong arguments\\
# (dependencies without cuda support).
# Instead we should rely on overlays and nixpkgsFun.
# (@SomeoneSerge)
\_tritonEffective ?
Is there an issue tracking dropping WithCuda aliases/a discussion thread about this somewhere?
| 21:43:40 |
| 24 Aug 2025 |
| connor (burnt/out) (UTC-8) | Not that I know of; probably hasn’t been made due to lack of time. Feel free to make one, I can add the CUDA tag to it so it doesn’t get lost. (Well, it’ll be lost in our giant backlog, but whatever.) | 18:31:36 |
| connor (burnt/out) (UTC-8) | Kevin MittmanSomeoneSerge (Ever OOMed by Element)I don’t think I ever set something up but Kevin we should definitely talk about the database application Serge has been building to track changes and information about CUDA binaries/releases | 18:34:00 |
 Kevin Mittman (UTC-7) | stick: https://github.com/NVIDIA/build-system-archive-import-examples/issues/4 | 18:44:39 |
| Kevin Mittman (UTC-7) | * stick: https://github.com/NVIDIA/build-system-archive-import-examples/issues/6 | 18:45:27 |
