I am using an Acer Nitro 5 Laptop with NVIDIA GTX 1050 discrete graphics. I intend not to use the proprietary NVIDIA drivers. Am pretty much happy with the Intel's i915 driver (Tear free + Hardware accelerated video decoding). Am curious to know, will disabling the open source NVIDIA driver (nouveau) result in power saving in the laptop? or is there anything else I can do which will completely disable the discrete graphics which should result in power saving?
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Does disabling the open-source NVIDIA driver (nouveau) help in power saving
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Does disabling the open-source NVIDIA driver (nouveau) help in power saving
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Re: Does disabling the open-source NVIDIA driver (nouveau) help in power saving
Why the heck not? Your computer, like any other, is already chock full of proprietary firmware. What difference would using a closed Nvidia driver make?
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Re: Does disabling the open-source NVIDIA driver (nouveau) help in power saving
Don't think the GPU driver will have a great affect on power consumption - install tlp it will do more.
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sudo apt install tlp
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Re: Does disabling the open-source NVIDIA driver (nouveau) help in power saving
If you use this terminal command:
So, no worries! Already done!
inxi -Gx
, you will see that the Intel driver is in use, and that the nouveau driver (and others) is "unloaded". Meaning it has not been loaded into the kernel.So, no worries! Already done!
Re: Does disabling the open-source NVIDIA driver (nouveau) help in power saving
In fact, I tried installing NVIDIA proprietary drivers initially. Unfortunately, am unable to remove the horrible screen tearing completely even after so many configuration trial and errors, tried various solutions posted on Linux forums. Hence I made that decision.
Re: Does disabling the open-source NVIDIA driver (nouveau) help in power saving
please post the output of and
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uname -r
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inix -Fxz
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Re: Does disabling the open-source NVIDIA driver (nouveau) help in power saving
Output of uname -r: 4.10.0-38-generickc1di wrote: ⤴Mon May 14, 2018 7:08 am please post the output ofandCode: Select all
uname -r
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inix -Fxz
Output of inix -Fxz:
Graphics: Card-1: Intel Device 591b bus-ID: 00:02.0
Card-2: NVIDIA Device 1c8d bus-ID: 01:00.0
Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 driver: intel Resolution: 1920x1080@60.03hz
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 630 (Kaby Lake GT2)
GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 17.2.8 Direct Rendering: Yes