Simple but really annoying problem, i am trying to figure out how to configure properly " PCI-Express Runtime D3 (RTD3) Power Management" since the NVIDIA dGPU uses 11W of power on IDLE without any process running on it making the overall power usage of my laptop <22W/h draining the battery very fas…

Thanks, but this creates other problem that i can’t use the fully closed source ones (nvidia or the dkms ones) because it hangs at boot with traps: Missing ENDBR: _nv012309rm+0x0/0x10 [nvidia] That’s why i am using nvidia open ones. (I can’t do nvidia-bug-report.sh since it can’t even change tty bec…

Please set kernel parameter ibt=off or upgrade to the 530 driver, which supports ibt.

Yeah i was just writhing that, is fixed. Now that i am using the fully closed source ones but the dGPU is still powered on when no process is using it even in a TTY without any Xorg or Wayland desktop environment running. Any clues? Attached new bug-report nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (942.6 KB)

Please unset any module options you added, reboot and create a new nvidia-bug-report.log.

nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (966.3 KB) Ready, no options set on this one

Please delete /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf then reboot and create a new nvidia-bug-report.log

nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (1010.2 KB) Now it appears to work by default without any options set, and nvidia-smi now has a little delay when is executed, giving this. Fri Mar 17 18:01:37 2023 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | NVIDIA-SMI 525.89.0…

Don’t use nvidia-smi to check runtime suspend, it wakes up the gpu (therefore the small delay). Instead, running cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/power/runtime_status should return “suspended”. Also, options shouldn’t be set, those are autoconfigured by the driver, only to be changed on issu…

Please embed the nvidia driver into the initrd, it’s loading too late.

Please embed the nvidia driver into the initrd How i do that? I never messed up with initrd before And /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/power/runtime_status successfully reports suspended and when i run nvidia-smi it returns active and after a few seconds it changes to suspended again as inten…

High IDLE power usage on 3070 Max-Q without any processes running on it

Graphics / Linux Linux

generix March 17, 2023, 8:09pm 2

The open kernel modules are alpha quality regarding geforce gpus, lacking any power management features. You also won’t be able to suspend/resume (unless this was added in recent versions). Please use the standard driver.

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High IDLE power usage on 3070 Max-Q without any processes running on it

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