Nvidia powermizer need help

Graphics / Linux Linux
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Hi guys

I have Dell 7577 with GTX 1050m 4Gb and i need help with configuring powermizer.

Nvidia Driver Version = 415.18

I have only 3 options
Auto
Adaptive
Prefer Maximum Performance

To me it always seems like its on max performance and its taxing too much power/cooling and because of this it shuts down on battery .Acpid is installed but it doesn’t seem to regulate voltage well so regardless of the AC/battery level i would like to be able to regulate this better so i could keep the cooling better as it tax the heating too much.

I would like to be able to regulate fan control too.

This is my config:

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 415.18

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0
    VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce GTX 1050"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection
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Also i noticed that for some reason after rebooting config doesn’t work and xorg.conf needs to be blank in order for GPU to be able to work,otherwise whole system will not boot.

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It’s an Optimus system, so outut is connected to the intel gpu. If you use such an xorg.conf, only the nvidia gpu is used so you see nothing.