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Control NVIDIA PCI

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I want to control NVIDIA booting.

I had a lot of issues with NVIDIA and it is almost the reason of any linux-devil but i also need to run dual screens and Nouveau does not work out of the box and only the proprietary drivers work (unlike Manjaro, open-source drivers work out of the box).

The most important reason i want to block it from working is that it consumes 75% of my battery consumption alone when it is idle!

My solutions:

  1. I tried to modprobe it using blacklist nvidia in /etc/modproble.d/blacklist-nvidia.conf but it never worked (even after updating initramfs).
  2. I purged the drivers completely and update-initramfs -u and it worked successfully (battery consumption reached 5WH compared to 20WH when NVIDIA was working).
  3. I tried using prime-select intel-nvidia, all the options does not make me reach 5WH, the prime-select on-demand actually was the best, giving me consumption of 10WH while using intel was the worst with 20WH (as if NVIDIA was running).

I thought that Nouveau itself wasn't stable and reliable enough until i saw manjaro live distro working smoothly with Nouveau on the same device with battery consumption of 5WH but the difference is that i do not need to install or purge any drivers, they just work out of the box!

of course i tried to compile nouveau by myself for my specific kernel but i failed to follow the instructions, it required too much knowledge for my case and i tried to search for the secret of "why is it working with Manjaro only" but to no avail!

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