Hello everyone, I have a fresh OpenSuste installation.
The problem is that NVIDIA card is not powering off when not in use. I can tell that because laptop has an orange light on when NVIDIA card is powered on.
Previously I had Fedora 40 and everything worked fine out of the box but one day, after an update, graphical interface stopped working.
Laptop is MSI Vector GP78 HX 13 V
Thank you in advance.
@jaraf Hi and welcome to the Forum 
That depends on what your using suse-prime and offload, switcherooctl? What desktop environment? A number of applications will use the likes of Nvidia and AMD as a compute node, chrome gpu acceleration, libreoffice, some teminal applications like alacritty. You should be able to install nvtop and observe…
Hello, thank you for the welcome and for your answer.
I am using Plasma 6.
I have suse-prime and i am trying to do offloading.
This is a list of commands i found to do a diagnose
zypper se suse-prime
Refreshing service 'NVIDIA'.
Refreshing service 'openSUSE'.
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
S | Name | Summary | Type
--+---------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------
i | plasma5-applet-suse-prime | Plasma 5 applet for controlling SUSE Prime | package
i | suse-prime | GPU (nvidia/intel) selection for NVIDIA optimus laptops with bbswitch support | package
prime-select service check
prime-select: service is set correctly
prime-select get-current
No driver configured.
prime-select log-view
##SUSEPrime logfile##
[ 09:40:25 ] Boot: setting-up card
[ 09:40:25 ] HotSwitch: completed!
[ 10:11:48 ] Boot: setting-up card
[ 10:11:48 ] HotSwitch: completed!
[ 23:41:20 ] Boot: setting-up card
[ 23:41:20 ] HotSwitch: completed!
[ 00:05:50 ] Boot: setting-up card
[ 00:05:50 ] HotSwitch: completed!
[ 07:23:23 ] Boot: setting-up card
[ 07:23:23 ] HotSwitch: completed!
[ 07:27:28 ] user_logout_waiter: started
[ 07:29:21 ] Boot: setting-up card
[ 07:29:21 ] HotSwitch: completed!
[ 09:49:57 ] Boot: setting-up card
[ 09:49:57 ] HotSwitch: completed!
[ 10:42:20 ] Boot: setting-up card
[ 10:42:20 ] HotSwitch: completed!
[ 20:10:16 ] Boot: setting-up card
[ 20:10:16 ] HotSwitch: completed!
[ 20:12:07 ] Boot: setting-up card
[ 20:12:07 ] HotSwitch: completed!
[ 20:15:28 ] Boot: setting-up card
[ 20:15:28 ] HotSwitch: completed!
[ 20:47:07 ] Boot: setting-up card
[ 20:47:07 ] HotSwitch: completed!
[ 20:56:49 ] Boot: setting-up card
[ 20:56:49 ] HotSwitch: completed!
/var/log/prime-select.log lines 1-28/28 (END)
zypper se bbswitch
Refreshing service 'NVIDIA'.
Refreshing service 'openSUSE'.
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
S | Name | Summary | Type
--+----------------------+------------------------------+--------
| bbswitch | Bumblebee ACPI kernel module | package
| bbswitch-kmp-default | Bumblebee ACPI kernel module | package
NVIDIA prooietary drivers installed.
zypper se -si nvidia
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
S | Name | Type | Version | Arch | Repository
---+-------------------------------+---------+-------------------------+--------+--------------
i | kernel-firmware-nvidia | package | 20240519-1.1 | noarch | repo-oss
i | libnvidia-egl-wayland1 | package | 1.1.13-1.3 | x86_64 | repo-oss
i | nvidia-compute-G06 | package | 550.90.07-23.1 | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i | nvidia-compute-G06-32bit | package | 550.90.07-23.1 | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i+ | nvidia-compute-utils-G06 | package | 550.90.07-23.1 | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i+ | nvidia-driver-G06-kmp-default | package | 550.90.07_k6.9.3_1-23.1 | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i+ | nvidia-drivers-G06 | package | 550.90.07-23.1 | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i | nvidia-gl-G06 | package | 550.90.07-23.1 | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i | nvidia-gl-G06-32bit | package | 550.90.07-23.1 | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i+ | nvidia-utils-G06 | package | 550.90.07-23.1 | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i | nvidia-video-G06 | package | 550.90.07-23.1 | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i | nvidia-video-G06-32bit | package | 550.90.07-23.1 | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i+ | openSUSE-repos-MicroOS-NVIDIA | package | 20240516.5431918-2.1 | x86_64 | repo-oss
lsmod |grep nvidia
nvidia_drm 122880 2
nvidia_modeset 1605632 3 nvidia_drm
nvidia_uvm 6684672 0
nvidia 60579840 36 nvidia_uvm,nvidia_modeset
video 77824 4 msi_wmi,xe,i915,nvidia_modeset
And i found this too.
dmesg | grep nvidia
[ 6.369220] [ T1673] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[ 6.369225] [ T1673] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[ 6.369227] [ T1673] nvidia: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
[ 6.369228] [ T1673] nvidia: module license taints kernel.
[ 6.480005] [ T1673] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 235
[ 6.480719] [ T1673] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0003)
[ 6.480820] [ T1673] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: vgaarb: VGA decodes changed: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=none
[ 6.542351] [ T1809] nvidia_uvm: module uses symbols nvUvmInterfaceDisableAccessCntr from proprietary module nvidia, inheriting taint.
[ 6.609462] [ T1809] nvidia-uvm: Loaded the UVM driver, major device number 511.
[ 6.656474] [ T1921] nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms 550.90.07 Fri May 31 09:30:47 UTC 2024
[ 6.662363] [ T1921] [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Loading driver
[ 8.213214] [ T1921] [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 20160202 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0
[ 8.213369] [ T1921] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: [drm] Cannot find any crtc or sizes
xrandr --listproviders
Providers: number : 0
But i have Steam installed and i can play games.
@jaraf You might want to peruse these three threads for users with similar hardware, I do have my doubts about suse-prime and newer hardware and would suggest looking at switcherooctl instead;
But it could also be your hardware setup, as in manufacturer specific, I do have a laptop with dual AMD gpu graphics and desktops with dual graphics.
Do you also have nosimplefb=1 in your kernel command line options cat /proc/cmdline
SOLVED!!!
Followed this steps:
prime-select unset
prime-select service restore
reboot, but no changes
prime-select intel
Got a message saying that i need to install bbswitch to save energy
Install bbswitch
zypper in bbswitch
reboot and SOLVED
prime-select get-current
Driver configured: intel
[bbswitch] NVIDIA card is OFF
And laptop’s orange light turned white.
This was my goal.
Thank you!!!
Thread can be closed.
@jaraf Interesting, just be aware this can break on a kernel update if the kmp does not build. There was some discussion on the Factory Mailing list about it’s support/removal from the distribution.
Glad it’s working for you
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