MX250 power managment not working

Graphics / Linux Linux
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Hello!
After installing latest nvidia drivers on Arch linux I can see, that all of my video devices are always in full power mode, even if there is no heavily graphic related programs (only terminal + firefox running):

[roworu@arch ~]$ sudo  cat /sys/class/drm/card*/device/power_state
D0
D0

Hardware description:
Huawei matebook 13 (2020)
i5-10210U
Nvidia MX250
Logs:
nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (229.1 KB)

I’m new here, so, please, tell if there is any more information I could provide.
Thank you!

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Dynamic power management is only supported on Turing and newer. Your MX250 is Pascal-based so can’t use runtime pm.

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Understood. Many thanks, @generix !

4

Re-reading the docs on it, they’ve become stragely ambigious on recent driver releases. Please try kenel parameter or module option
nvidia.NVreg_DynamicPowerManagement=1

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Thank for your update. After adding this to kernel parameter got no changes:

[roworu@arch ~]$ sudo cat /etc/default/grub | grep nvidia
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="loglevel=3  nvidia.NVreg_DynamicPowerManagement=1"
[roworu@arch ~]$ sudo  cat /sys/class/drm/card*/device/power_state
D0
D0
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