Completely disable NVidia power management

[barabaka]

I have laptop with hybrid graphics (Intel+NVidia) configured in PRIME mode with D3 power management [0] [1].

I want to disable TLP from managing NVidia and let proprietary driver do the thing (which works quite well, GPU stays in suspended/D3cold state most of the time) [2]

So I disabled the card in TLP config (/etc/tlp.d/01-nvidia.conf):

RUNTIME_PM_DENYLIST="01:00.0"
RUNTIME_PM_DRIVER_DENYLIST="nvidia"

With this configuration I would expect TLP to completely ignore the card. Is that the right expectation? But now the state [2] is reported as suspended/D3hot (change from D3Cold -> D3hot compared to nvidia driver). So it seems that TLP is still somehow manages the card. I tested this on AC.

When I unplug the AC the state cycles to D0 -> D3Cold, which looks good. So it seems to only affect the AC mode.

Is there a way to completely disable NVidia management?

[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PRIME
[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PRIME#PCI-Express_Runtime_D3_(RTD3)_Power_Management
[2] cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/power/runtime_status && cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/power_state

[linrunner]

Hi. You expect me to speculate about your system without having seen any tlp-stat outputs? About a proprietary driver? Please show me the full output of:

sudo tlp-stat
for s in /sys/class/drm/card*/device/power_state; do echo $s; cat $s; done

on AC and battery power. Via https://gist.github.com/ please.

Then I'll reconsider ;-).