NVIDIA modules loaded but GPU still off and not used under Wayland

[dad4linux]

Hello,

Can’t figure out why my NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050ti card is off even though at boot time NVIDIA was selected and apparently loaded (I have dual graphic cards installed on my laptop):

$ sudo prime-select boot nvidia

nvidia-smi reports that the GPU is off:

It appears that according to nvtop only the integrated Intel graphics card is being used:

The app Nvidia System Monitor QT shows that the NVIDIA GPU is not being used at all:

Can’t seem to get the NVIDIA GPU working under Wayland. My system is up to date. Everything works fine under X11.

On a side note, why does this notification appear when running an app under Wayland but not under X11:

If I don’t choose Allow (even if I just close the latter dialog window), it shuts down the running app. What is this “Portal” notification?

thanks for your help!
Cheers
Dad4Linux

[ProtonBadger]

I got that after the 550 update. I default to “prime-select boot offload”, so using the Intel iGPU for desktop/VA-API and automatically it picks Nvidia 3060 for Steam games but suddenly games had no GPU and nvtop only showed iGPU. Even if I manually loaded the Nvidia driver with modprobe it didn’t work, though it was loaded but the card was “Off”. On Wayland, never thought to try X though.

Solution for me was to remove all Nvidia driver and software in Yast (but keeping the repo enabled), reboot and then run the following to reinstall Nvidia drivers.

sudo zypper install-new-recommends
sudo prime-select service restore
sudo prime-select boot offload

Then I was back to normal.

[dad4linux]

Hi ProtonBadger,

tried your suggestion. did not work. NVIDIA GPU still off / unused in Wayland after unintstalling all NVIDIA drivers, rebooting, and restarting.

Now NVIDIA System Monitor QT (flatpak) crashes after a few seconds of loading.

[dad4linux]

Sorry I meant to include reinstalling nvidia drivers, restoring the service, and setting offload at boot before finally “restarting”