diff --git a/nixos/modules/hardware/video/nvidia.nix b/nixos/modules/hardware/video/nvidia.nix
index 6899eb4e196a..8a02ff25b8ed 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/hardware/video/nvidia.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/hardware/video/nvidia.nix
@@ -363,7 +363,8 @@ in
         # Create /dev/nvidia-uvm when the nvidia-uvm module is loaded.
         KERNEL=="nvidia", RUN+="${pkgs.runtimeShell} -c 'mknod -m 666 /dev/nvidiactl c $$(grep nvidia-frontend /proc/devices | cut -d \  -f 1) 255'"
         KERNEL=="nvidia_modeset", RUN+="${pkgs.runtimeShell} -c 'mknod -m 666 /dev/nvidia-modeset c $$(grep nvidia-frontend /proc/devices | cut -d \  -f 1) 254'"
-        KERNEL=="card*", SUBSYSTEM=="drm", DRIVERS=="nvidia", RUN+="${pkgs.runtimeShell} -c 'mknod -m 666 /dev/nvidia%n c $$(grep nvidia-frontend /proc/devices | cut -d \  -f 1) %n'"
+        KERNEL=="card*", SUBSYSTEM=="drm", DRIVERS=="nvidia", PROGRAM="${pkgs.gnugrep}/bin/grep 'Device Minor:' /proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/%b/information", \
+          RUN+="${pkgs.runtimeShell} -c 'mknod -m 666 /dev/nvidia%c{3} c $$(grep nvidia-frontend /proc/devices | cut -d \  -f 1) %c{3}"
         KERNEL=="nvidia_uvm", RUN+="${pkgs.runtimeShell} -c 'mknod -m 666 /dev/nvidia-uvm c $$(grep nvidia-uvm /proc/devices | cut -d \  -f 1) 0'"
         KERNEL=="nvidia_uvm", RUN+="${pkgs.runtimeShell} -c 'mknod -m 666 /dev/nvidia-uvm-tools c $$(grep nvidia-uvm /proc/devices | cut -d \  -f 1) 0'"
       '' + optionalString cfg.powerManagement.finegrained ''