<![CDATA[Hey #NixOS maintainers - I found a fix for nVidia Drivers not letting Plymouth work on my machine.]]>Hey maintainers - I found a fix for nVidia Drivers not letting Plymouth work on my machine. I have to do

 boot.initrd.systemd.services.plymouth-start = {
  after = [ "systemd-modules-load.service" ];
  requires = [ "systemd-modules-load.service" ];
};

So that it starts after the nvidia driver.

(Specifically, with systemd initrd)

...Who do I report this to on nixpkgs? nVidia? Plymouth?

(Context: Plymouth manages to start up in about 0.6 seconds, and then gets booted out at 2.somthing seconds when the nVidia driver starts up)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/068a450e-3751-4632-900a-c46b85146686/hey-nixos-maintainers-i-found-a-fix-for-nvidia-drivers-not-letting-plymouth-work-on-my-machine.RSS for NodeThu, 14 May 2026 21:41:11 GMTSun, 26 Apr 2026 08:38:16 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Hey #NixOS maintainers - I found a fix for nVidia Drivers not letting Plymouth work on my machine. on Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:23:27 GMT]]>@krutonium Plymouth still starts up for me but it's only after the LUKS password prompt/nvidia driver, and honestly, it all boots up so fast that I only see the splash screen for maybe a second and a half before I'm looking at my login manager anyways.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.zerojay.com/users/jay/statuses/116477120203208091https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.zerojay.com/users/jay/statuses/116477120203208091Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:23:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Hey #NixOS maintainers - I found a fix for nVidia Drivers not letting Plymouth work on my machine. on Sun, 26 Apr 2026 22:38:59 GMT]]>@jay Yep! The difference between us is LUKS which prevents Plymouth from starting up afaik.

All present in my initrd.

nVidia's drivers just have a ~2 second startup time.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/krutonium/statuses/116473406369111436https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/krutonium/statuses/116473406369111436Sun, 26 Apr 2026 22:38:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Hey #NixOS maintainers - I found a fix for nVidia Drivers not letting Plymouth work on my machine. on Sun, 26 Apr 2026 10:49:33 GMT]]>@krutonium Do you have the nvidia drivers included in the initrd? If you do, the drivers load before Plymouth starts up.

boot = {
initrd = {
kernelModules = [ "nvidia" "nvidia_modeset" "nvidia_drm" "nvidia_uvm" ];
};
};

So when I boot up, I get the standard text console followed by the Nvidia driver loading and the text console looking "better" due to the resolution change, then I get the LUKS passphrase unlock for my drives followed by Plymouth starting up afterwards.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.zerojay.com/users/jay/statuses/116470616808644497https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.zerojay.com/users/jay/statuses/116470616808644497Sun, 26 Apr 2026 10:49:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Hey #NixOS maintainers - I found a fix for nVidia Drivers not letting Plymouth work on my machine. on Sun, 26 Apr 2026 09:16:48 GMT]]>@krutonium might be best to make a nixos discourse forum post?

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