Nvidia-powerd fails to start

Whenever I boot Ubuntu 22.04, I get the error: Failed to start nvidia-powerd service.

I’m running a Lenovo Legion Y740 notebook with the following specifications:
Processor: Intel(R) Core™ i7-8750H
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 with Max-Q Design

This is the output of systemctl status nvidia-powerd :

× nvidia-powerd.service - nvidia-powerd service
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/nvidia-powerd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2022-11-27 15:06:20 EET; 9min ago
    Process: 1053 ExecStart=/usr/bin/nvidia-powerd (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Main PID: 1053 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
        CPU: 526ms

Nov 27 15:06:20 ubuntu-Lenovo-Legion-Y740-15ICHg systemd[1]: Starting nvidia-powerd service...
Nov 27 15:06:20 ubuntu-Lenovo-Legion-Y740-15ICHg /usr/bin/nvidia-powerd[1053]: nvidia-powerd version:1.0(build 1)
Nov 27 15:06:20 ubuntu-Lenovo-Legion-Y740-15ICHg /usr/bin/nvidia-powerd[1053]: SBIOS support not found for NVPCF GET_SUPPORTED function
Nov 27 15:06:20 ubuntu-Lenovo-Legion-Y740-15ICHg /usr/bin/nvidia-powerd[1053]: No matching GPU found
Nov 27 15:06:20 ubuntu-Lenovo-Legion-Y740-15ICHg /usr/bin/nvidia-powerd[1053]: Failed to initialize RM Client
Nov 27 15:06:20 ubuntu-Lenovo-Legion-Y740-15ICHg systemd[1]: nvidia-powerd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Nov 27 15:06:20 ubuntu-Lenovo-Legion-Y740-15ICHg systemd[1]: nvidia-powerd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 27 15:06:20 ubuntu-Lenovo-Legion-Y740-15ICHg systemd[1]: Failed to start nvidia-powerd service.

Output of nvidia-smi :

Sun Nov 27 15:22:25 2022       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 515.43.04    Driver Version: 515.43.04    CUDA Version: 11.7     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                               |                      |               MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce ...  On   | 00000000:01:00.0  On |                  N/A |
| N/A   51C    P8    10W /  N/A |    289MiB /  8192MiB |      2%      Default |
|                               |                      |                  N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                  |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                  GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                   Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A      2853      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                 84MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      3246      G   /usr/bin/gnome-shell               46MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      4967      G   ...8/usr/lib/firefox/firefox      154MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Output of inxi -Gxx :

Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA TU106BM [GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile / Max-Q] vendor: Lenovo
    driver: nvidia v: 515.43.04 pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:1f50
  Device-2: Lite-On Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
    bus-ID: 1-7:4 chip-ID: 04ca:7070
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 compositor: gnome-shell v: 42.5
    driver: X: loaded: nvidia unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa
    gpu: nvidia display-ID: :1 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 143
  Monitor-1: DP-4 res: 1920x1080 dpi: 142 diag: 395mm (15.5")
  OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 with Max-Q Design/PCIe/SSE2
    v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 515.43.04 direct render: Yes

Finally, output of cat /proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0000:01:00.0/power :

Runtime D3 status:          Disabled by default
Video Memory:               Active

GPU Hardware Support:
 Video Memory Self Refresh: Supported
 Video Memory Off:          Supported

Power Limits:
 Default:                   80000 milliwatts
 GPU Boost:                 4294967295 milliwatts

Nvidia-powerd is only for mobile Ampere gpus so it’s useless with your 2080. Please disable and mask the service.

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