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feat(hosts): add lyrathorpe-console, a living-room games machine
New x86_64 host for a 4th-gen Core i7 (Haswell) with a GTX 1070 8 GB,
wired to a television and driven with a Bluetooth controller.

Session: greetd gets an initial_session, so the machine autologins into
the gamescope Steam session at boot with no greeter and no keyboard.
Quitting Steam falls back to greetd's default_session (ReGreet), where
the ordinary Sway session is available for keyboard-and-mouse work.

Graphics: the GTX 1070 is Pascal, so it needs driver branch 580
(nvidiaPackages.legacy_580) like the Mac Pro's Quadro P400 -- the
nixpkgs default (production, 595.x) dropped Pascal support.

Games: RetroArch built through retroarch-bare.wrapper with 17 cores
covering NES through PS2, GameCube and Wii; Clone Hero; and Steam with
Proton-GE and protontricks. RetroArch's menu toggle is bound to L3+R3,
without which there is no way to exit a running core on a machine with
no keyboard.

Proton prerequisites beyond what programs.steam already arranges: the
esync file-descriptor hard limit is raised from systemd's default
524288 to 1048576 (soft limit untouched), and Proton-GE is wired in via
extraCompatPackages. vm.max_map_count already defaults high enough in
nixpkgs and needs no override.

Content lives in a shared /srv/games tree created by systemd.tmpfiles,
laid out one directory per system under roms/ using the libretro/ES-DE
naming convention, plus bios/, saves/, states/, a Steam library folder
and Clone Hero's songs. RetroArch is pointed at it declaratively.

hardware-configuration.nix is a placeholder, not a hardware scan: the
machine is not installed yet. It assumes partition labels `nixos` and
`BOOT` and must be replaced with nixos-generate-config output.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-21 17:06:21 +01:00

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# PLACEHOLDER -- not generated by nixos-generate-config.
#
# This host has not been installed yet, so there is no real hardware scan to
# commit. The values below are the conventional defaults for a Haswell UEFI
# desktop and assume the install labels its partitions `nixos` (root, ext4) and
# `BOOT` (ESP, vfat) -- see docs/hosts/console.md. They exist so the flake
# evaluates in CI; they are not a description of the actual machine.
#
# Replace this whole file with the output of `nixos-generate-config` run on the
# machine, and commit that. If the labels do not match, the boot fails loudly on
# a missing device rather than touching the wrong disk.
{
config,
lib,
modulesPath,
...
}:
{
imports = [
(modulesPath + "/installer/scan/not-detected.nix")
];
boot.initrd.availableKernelModules = [
"xhci_pci"
"ehci_pci"
"ahci"
"nvme"
"usb_storage"
"usbhid"
"sd_mod"
"sr_mod"
];
boot.initrd.kernelModules = [ ];
boot.kernelModules = [ "kvm-intel" ];
boot.extraModulePackages = [ ];
fileSystems."/" = {
device = "/dev/disk/by-label/nixos";
fsType = "ext4";
};
fileSystems."/boot" = {
device = "/dev/disk/by-label/BOOT";
fsType = "vfat";
options = [
"fmask=0022"
"dmask=0022"
];
};
swapDevices = [ ];
networking.useDHCP = lib.mkDefault true;
nixpkgs.hostPlatform = lib.mkDefault "x86_64-linux";
hardware.cpu.intel.updateMicrocode = lib.mkDefault config.hardware.enableRedistributableFirmware;
}