NVIDIA Suspend fix

setup-nvdia-suspend.sh

# Use systemd for managing NVIDIA driver suspend in drivers ====>>> PRIOR to version 470 <<<=====
# https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/450.66/README/powermanagement.html
# https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/unable-to-set-nvidia-kernel-module-parameters/161306
# Please note: In Fedora Linux you may need to just install the xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-power pakage 
# as sugested by @goombah88 in the comments below. 

TMP_PATH=/var/tmp
TMPL_PATH=/usr/share/doc/nvidia-driver-460/

echo "options nvidia NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1 NVreg_TemporaryFilePath=${TMP_PATH}" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-power-management.conf 

sudo install --mode 644 "${TMPL_PATH}/nvidia-suspend.service" /etc/systemd/system
sudo install --mode 644 "${TMPL_PATH}/nvidia-hibernate.service" /etc/systemd/system
sudo install --mode 644 "${TMPL_PATH}/nvidia-resume.service" /etc/systemd/system
sudo install "${TMPL_PATH}/nvidia" /lib/systemd/system-sleep
sudo install "${TMPL_PATH}/nvidia-sleep.sh" /usr/bin

sudo systemctl enable nvidia-suspend.service
sudo systemctl enable nvidia-hibernate.service
sudo systemctl enable nvidia-resume.service

@marani I also experienced issues with hibernate after installing Nvidia CUDA drivers.

See the comment by @bmharper above.

I found that there were some broken links to the missing systemd service units for uspend and hibernate. Check if you have such broken links and remove them if you do.

find /etc/systemd -type l -exec file {} \; | grep broken | grep nvidia

Thanks for the suggestion, I tried deleting and it worked.

However, according to docs v515, the the nvidia systemd config files are still used, the documentation mentioned it as if the files are supposed to be there (Unless they forgot to update the docs). Looking at the shell script in this post, it seems to call nvidia driver suspend, so removing them would remove this behavior?

/usr/bin/nvidia-sleep.sh

#!/bin/bash

if [ ! -f /proc/driver/nvidia/suspend ]; then
    exit 0
fi

RUN_DIR="/var/run/nvidia-sleep"
XORG_VT_FILE="${RUN_DIR}"/Xorg.vt_number

PATH="/bin:/usr/bin"

case "$1" in
    suspend|hibernate)
        mkdir -p "${RUN_DIR}"
        fgconsole > "${XORG_VT_FILE}"
        chvt 63
        if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
            exit $?
        fi
        echo "$1" > /proc/driver/nvidia/suspend
        exit $?
        ;;
    resume)
        echo "$1" > /proc/driver/nvidia/suspend 
        #
        # Check if Xorg was determined to be running at the time
        # of suspend, and whether its VT was recorded.  If so,
        # attempt to switch back to this VT.
        #
        if [[ -f "${XORG_VT_FILE}" ]]; then
            XORG_PID=$(cat "${XORG_VT_FILE}")
            rm "${XORG_VT_FILE}"
            chvt "${XORG_PID}"
        fi
        exit 0
        ;;
    *)
        exit 1
esac

sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/systemd-hibernate.service.requires/nvidia-resume.service
sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/systemd-hibernate.service.requires/nvidia-hibernate.service
sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/systemd-suspend.service.requires/nvidia-resume.service
sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/systemd-suspend.service.requires/nvidia-suspend.service

This works perfectly

I'm on Ubuntu 22.04, and after installing CUDA I was unable to suspend. The following steps worked for me:

• Inside /etc/systemd, delete all of the files that include nvidia and suspend or hibernate. There are three services inside /etc/systemd/system, which I deleted. There are also some other dead nvidia links inside systemd-hibernate.service.requires, systemd-suspend.service.requires, which I deleted.

I wish I knew the exact names of the files that I deleted, but since they're now gone, I can't remember their exact paths. But in a nutshell, go into /etc/systemd, and do find . -iname nv*, and then delete all the of the suspend, resume, and hibernate scripts.

DO NOT DELETE nvidia-powerd.service and nvidia-persistenced.service.

Once you're done with that, do systemctl daemon-reload.

This works! Thanks a lot!

I'm on Ubuntu 22.04, and after installing CUDA I was unable to suspend. The following steps worked for me:

• Inside /etc/systemd, delete all of the files that include nvidia and suspend or hibernate. There are three services inside /etc/systemd/system, which I deleted. There are also some other dead nvidia links inside systemd-hibernate.service.requires, systemd-suspend.service.requires, which I deleted.

I wish I knew the exact names of the files that I deleted, but since they're now gone, I can't remember their exact paths. But in a nutshell, go into /etc/systemd, and do find . -iname nv*, and then delete all the of the suspend, resume, and hibernate scripts.

DO NOT DELETE nvidia-powerd.service and nvidia-persistenced.service.

Once you're done with that, do systemctl daemon-reload.

This doesn't worked form me.
I removed all nvidia files you said. Indeed, if i do systemctl list-unit-files | grep nvidia it returns

nvidia-persistenced.service                                               enabled         enabled
nvidia-powerd.service                                                     enabled         enabled

and with find /etc/systemd -iname nv*

/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/nvidia-persistenced.service
/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/nvidia-powerd.service

but I'm still not able to resume the laptop.

My nvidia-smi is

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 515.65.01    Driver Version: 515.65.01    CUDA Version: 11.7     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                               |                      |               MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce ...  On   | 00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| N/A   49C    P8     2W /  N/A |    634MiB /  4096MiB |      8%      Default |
|                               |                      |                  N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                  |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                  GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                   Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A      2112      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                216MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      2468      G   /usr/bin/gnome-shell               50MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      3944      G   ...589584913286235972,131072      366MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

@bmharper Your solution works perfectly for me (driver 515)!

Thanks @bmharper !!! Worked for me too, in the Nvidia On-Demand mode. I haven't tried other modes yet, but I'm fine with this one.

My story is: Linux Mint 20.3 Cinnamon, kernel 5.4.0-126. Recently installed CUDA toolkit, which updated my nvidia driver from 470 (if I'm not mistaken) to 515, which in turn had broken my auto-suspend on lid close. The Quit->Suspend button haven't worked either. Only way I could suspend is by running pm-suspend from terminal.

@bmharper That works for alienware laptop with nvidia driver 515

It works. The power drain I see before is not related to nvidia graphic card.

I tried to put the alienware laptop to airplane mode and pull out usb dondle before put into suspend, and put in the backpack for the whole night. The battery level only down by 9% which is normal, and no extra heat in the backpack.

BTW: I also update the driver to version 520, and upgrade ubuntu to 22.04.1 LTS. Works fine.

sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/systemd-hibernate.service.requires/nvidia-resume.service
sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/systemd-hibernate.service.requires/nvidia-hibernate.service
sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/systemd-suspend.service.requires/nvidia-resume.service
sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/systemd-suspend.service.requires/nvidia-suspend.service

worked for me. Thank you very much.

For me, with nvidia-driver-495, the simple solution was to remove the damaged symlinks from systemd. You most likely have them if you upgraded from nvidia-driver-470, because 470 still included the .service files in /lib/systemd/system/. The files are no longer included in 495 but the postinst script does not remove the symlinks. So, remove them with:

sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/systemd-hibernate.service.requires/nvidia-resume.service
sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/systemd-hibernate.service.requires/nvidia-hibernate.service
sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/systemd-suspend.service.requires/nvidia-resume.service
sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/systemd-suspend.service.requires/nvidia-suspend.service

Works instantly, no need of rebooting or logging off.

This does the job. Thank you.

sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/systemd-hibernate.service.requires/nvidia-resume.service
sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/systemd-hibernate.service.requires/nvidia-hibernate.service
sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/systemd-suspend.service.requires/nvidia-resume.service
sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/systemd-suspend.service.requires/nvidia-suspend.service

Thank you, This worked in my case.

The method works. In case you need fresh files install the services, you can get your driver version from NVIDIA. Use nvidia-smi to get the exact version and then run the .run file with --extract-only flag: sudo bash NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-515.65.01.run --extract-only.

Then you run the given commands setting the TMPL_PATH to the path where you've extracted the files. Keep in mind that the files for this driver (515.65.01) have a slightly different locations as stated in the original post. So the updated commands should be like this:

TMPL_PATH=/home/user/Downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-515.65.01/systemd

sudo install --mode 644 "${TMPL_PATH}/system/nvidia-suspend.service" /etc/systemd/system
sudo install --mode 644 "${TMPL_PATH}/system/nvidia-hibernate.service" /etc/systemd/system
sudo install --mode 644 "${TMPL_PATH}/system/nvidia-resume.service" /etc/systemd/system
sudo install "${TMPL_PATH}/system-sleep/nvidia" /lib/systemd/system-sleep
sudo install "${TMPL_PATH}/nvidia-sleep.sh" /usr/bin

sudo systemctl enable nvidia-suspend.service
sudo systemctl enable nvidia-hibernate.service
sudo systemctl enable nvidia-resume.service