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nvidia-x11: 450.66 -> 455.38 [20.09]#103834

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nvidia-x11: 450.66 -> 455.38 [20.09]#103834
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Motivation for this change

nvidia-x11 versions 450.31 through 455.28 contain a serious performance regression that make my system nearly unusable. This is fixed in 455.38; the relevant changelog entry is "Fixed a performance regression in the NVIDIA X driver which affected some X11 RENDER extension use cases". I'd appreciate seeing this backported to 20.09, given that (absent #99323) it's very difficult to use a custom version of nvidia-x11 without completely forking nixpkgs.

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cc @baracoder

@dfoxfranke dfoxfranke changed the title nvidia-x11: backport 455.38 to 20.09 nvidia-x11: 450.66 -> 455.38 [20.09] Nov 14, 2020
@ofborg ofborg bot added 10.rebuild-darwin: 0 This PR does not cause any packages to rebuild on Darwin. 10.rebuild-linux: 11-100 This PR causes between 11 and 100 packages to rebuild on Linux. labels Nov 14, 2020
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cc @NixOS/backports

@veprbl veprbl merged commit 9d5ef2a into NixOS:release-20.09 Nov 15, 2020
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Thanks for this backport, I had also been having issues (though, stability rather than performance) with the most recent 20.09 nvidia driver.

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