Nvidia status after update

mountain_mosquito

I ran an upgrade a few days ago and forgot about it, everything is working fine. However today just out of boredom I check systemctl status and got this (see screenshot). Any idea what's going on?

Staudey

mountain_mosquito Do you have a GPU older than Ampere generation? If so, failing nvidia-powerd service is normal

A sudo systemctl status nvidia-powerd.service should show you something like this:

Feb 13 12:06:09 solus-pc systemd[1]: Started nvidia-powerd.service - nvidia-powerd service.
Feb 13 12:06:09 solus-pc /usr/bin/nvidia-powerd[686]: nvidia-powerd version:1.0(build 1)
Feb 13 12:06:09 solus-pc /usr/bin/nvidia-powerd[686]: Found unsupported configuration. Exiting...
Feb 13 12:06:09 solus-pc systemd[1]: nvidia-powerd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE

https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/555.58.02/README/dynamicboost.html

pomon

It says it is the nvidia-powerd.service, which is responsible for power management in Nvidia drivers, loading failed.
Check systemctl status nvidia-powerd.service
Try restarting sudo systemctl restart nvidia-powerd.service.
Check logs e.g. journalctl -xeu nvidia-powerd.service.

mountain_mosquito

I guess it has something to do with the second (built in) GPU. I couldn't restart the service and the log is empty.

Staudey

mountain_mosquito This is not a notebook, right? As the above article states:

Dynamic Boost is supported only on platforms that meet all of the following requirements:

Notebook form factor.

Ampere or newer GPUs.

Intel CometLake or newer Intel chipsets, or AMD Renoir, Cezanne, Rembrandt, or newer AMD chipsets.

SBIOS support for Dynamic Boost

So if either of those don't apply the "Found unsupported configuration" exit is expected

mountain_mosquito

Staudey

No it is not, it's a custom build PC. I guess I can just ignore it, I do not have any problems at all except the error report.