gregorni, 9 months ago

@thelinuxEXP Linux is getting more and more awesome, and we don't even know why! 😅

ultrasquid, 8 months ago

@thelinuxEXP this sounds like good news, I'm getting a refurbished laptop later today and I'm sure not leaving Windows on it.

flit, 8 months ago

@thelinuxEXP Yeah it probably is Nvidia drivers, I've noticed some games now have improved performance as a result too

hekel, 9 months ago

@thelinuxEXP there's been a lot of improvements with Kernel 6.4, and a lot more are coming with 6.5 (like amd_pstate becoming default)

I've written a guide about amd_pstate on Lemmy, if anyone is interested :)

I've had massive battery life improvements on my zen4 after a tad of tinkering.

https://lemmy.world/post/3081149

thelinuxEXP, 8 months ago

@hekel Yeah, I think I got 6.4 recently, might be the reason!

thingsiplay, 9 months ago

@thelinuxEXP There was some improvements in the Linux 6.3 Kernel. Maybe that has something to do with it: https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-pstate-epp-ryzen-mobile

XeroLinux, 9 months ago

@thelinuxEXP I noticed a slightly better performance, not that much. Will see once I get my bro's old Laptop..

onebigsucc, 9 months ago

@thelinuxEXP what drivers are you using, the open modules, or proprietary ones? iirc the open modules only recently got support for power management on Ampere+ GPUs

Also I'm guessing you're on wayland since you use Fedora+Gnome?

thelinuxEXP, 9 months ago

@onebigsucc Proprietary drivers on Wayland, yeah

pjol, 9 months ago

@thelinuxEXP I’ve also noticed a overall improvement with battery life on kernel 6.4.x albeit on Intel only laptop (i7-1260p with iGPU). On Fedora 38 fwiw

lenkotarski, 9 months ago

@thelinuxEXP your guardian battery angel was looking out for you

pikachu_sensei, 9 months ago

@thelinuxEXP Wait you used to lose 20% overnight on suspend before this due to nvidia 😧 mine was like 4-6 % on suspend in Intel/AMD laptop. I don't remember but phoronix made an article stating that Wayland saves more battery than xorg and I was on Wayland since day 1. These days I hop between the two, anyway good that you got the improvement :blobcatcoffee:

thelinuxEXP, 9 months ago

@pikachu_sensei Yeah, NVIDIA and suspend never really worked well together, but it seems there have been solid improvements!

Bene, 9 months ago

@thelinuxEXP do you have documentation how you set that up? I have a xps15 from 2019 (or so), and never got to setup the GPU to run good on Wayland.

thelinuxEXP, 9 months ago

@Bene I did nothing special, I installed Fedora, and the proprietary NVIDIA drivers, and that’s it! It only works well with recent GPUs though, like the 3000 series, in my experience

Bene, 9 months ago

@thelinuxEXP like in software -> drivers -> check both nv drivers? And: Is it an optimus-like device (so switching between intel and nvidia is necessary for games)?

thelinuxEXP, 9 months ago

@Bene I don’t have that « drivers » panel in Fedora, but I just installed the drivers from the GNOME App Store, and that’s it. It’s in hybrid graphics by defaults, so no need to switch, it automatically uses the NVIDIA GPU for games

apotaurus, 8 months ago

@thelinuxEXP @Bene Oh, may I ask you some hands for this ? Yesterday I made a fresh new install of Fedora 38, but I'm not able to see my NVIDIA GPU. lsci command only show the Intel integrated one. I disable Secure Boot from BIOS. What I'm missing? Thanks in advance

Bene, 9 months ago

@thelinuxEXP yeah, gnome Software, scroll down to "other categories", in german its something like "device drivers"

Bene, 9 months ago

@thelinuxEXP Here in the bottom right

ekimia, 9 months ago

@thelinuxEXP are you on deep_sleep mode or idle ?
Does your Nvidia mode is "on demand" ?

thelinuxEXP, 9 months ago

@ekimia Yeah, NVIDIA on demand, and it’s s2idle

ekimia, 9 months ago

@thelinuxEXP Interresting S2idle can empty my battery in few hours ( SOix mode ) , we switch to deepsleep S3 when possible with kernel opts "mem_sleep_default=deep"

IS this a special kernel or BIOS ? like Tuxedo maybe ?

thelinuxEXP, 9 months ago

@ekimia It’s vanilla Fedora 38, without any changes to the kernel! The BIOS is the usual old blue AMI one, nothing special done to it AFAIK

ekimia, 9 months ago

@thelinuxEXP Great machine then to achieve this on S0 ! Switch to S3 should be way better

gytis, 9 months ago

@thelinuxEXP Maybe you've jumped to Linux Kernel v6?

thelinuxEXP, 9 months ago

@gytis It already was using version 6, but maybe an update improved that?

neuroexception, 9 months ago

@thelinuxEXP Good to see nvidia improvements on linux!