NVIDIA dGPU always active with Prime Offloading

[Void97]

System:

• 5.10.2-2-MANJARO
• NVIDIA GTX 1650 Ti Mobile
• NVIDIA’s proprietary driver 455.45.01-10.0, installed with mhwd

I’m able to use the NVIDIA card (for example with prime-run), but even when I do not use it, it remains on: in fact, the command cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:01\:00.0/power/runtime_status outputs active instead of suspended.

I have already enabled D3 power management as in NVIDIA’s official guide, but the command still outputs active and I can confirm it because of the poor battery life.

[pobrn]

See here. Until it is fixed, use the 5.4 LTS kernel (or 5.9 if you need snap).

[Void97]

Thank you! Unfortunately, I’ll have to wait for the fix because I tried 5.9 but it does not work well with nvidia-455 driver. Meanwhile, I’ll use this workaround to preserve more battery life and still use the NVIDIA card when required, though with slightly worse performance.

[Void97]

I can confirm that NVIDIA driver 460.39 solves the problem, thus I’ll close this thread.