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

I found solution for my system, tested with nvidia driver 570.153.02.
To get suspend/hibernation working correctly i had to change my kernel version to 6.13.7 and set NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware to 0 for nvidia kernel module.
With other kernel versions(i tested 6.12.29 lts and mainline 6.14.6) i get a black screen when trying to resume from suspend/hibernate¹.

Here is modprobe.d config for nvidia module(/etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf):

options nvidia NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1
options nvidia NVreg_TemporaryFilePath=/var/tmp
options nvidia NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware=0

Enabled nvidia systemd services:

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

My system:

• Lenovo Legion R7000 AHP9
• AMD Ryzen 7 8745H
• 32 GB ram
• Video: Nvidia RTX 4050(dGPU) + AMD Radeon 780M(iGPU)
• OS: Fedora 41, KDE 6.3.5 with Kwin wayland session
• Nvidia driver version: 570.153.02

Footnotes

1. As workaround I found that with magic SysRq request for SIGTERM to all processes, i can bypass/kill hanged nvidia(?) scripts. Keyboard shortcut: Alt+SysRq(PrtSc)+e ↩

FYI, there's a new systemd service for newer nvidia driver versions. So if someone uses suspend-then-hibernate on their system, you might need to enable that too for nvidia:

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

Thank you for the hint! On Fedora 42, all I needed to do was install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-470xx-power (I have an older card)

I found solution for my system, tested with nvidia driver 570.153.02. To get suspend/hibernation working correctly i had to change my kernel version to 6.13.7 and set NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware to 0 for nvidia kernel module. With other kernel versions(i tested 6.12.29 lts and mainline 6.14.6) i get a black screen when trying to resume from suspend/hibernate1.

@gdim47 , thank you for this solution!

It works also in my case with Fedora 42 running on my ASUS ROG laptop with 32 GB RAM and GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q and Nvidia driver version 575.64.

The problem was after a couple of updates the system stopped to hibernate with the messages in the /var/log/messages saying that

PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations module parameter is set. System Power Management attempted without driver procfs suspend interface . Please refer to the 'Configuring Power Management Support' section in the driver

and

nvidia 0000:01:00.0: PM: failed to freeze async: error -5

After adding two last options from your config (the 1st one had been already in its place) in my one the problem seemed to vanish.

UPDATE

OOPS :( It occurred to be too early to celebrate because the second hibernate command failed to finish successfully due to nvidia PM failed to freeze async.

I found solution for my system, tested with nvidia driver 570.153.02. To get suspend/hibernation working correctly i had to change my kernel version to 6.13.7 and set NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware to 0 for nvidia kernel module. With other kernel versions(i tested 6.12.29 lts and mainline 6.14.6) i get a black screen when trying to resume from suspend/hibernate1.

Here is modprobe.d config for nvidia module(/etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf):

options nvidia NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1
options nvidia NVreg_TemporaryFilePath=/var/tmp
options nvidia NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware=0

Enabled nvidia systemd services:

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

My system:

• Lenovo Legion R7000 AHP9
• AMD Ryzen 7 8745H
• 32 GB ram
• Video: Nvidia RTX 4050(dGPU) + AMD Radeon 780M(iGPU)
• OS: Fedora 41, KDE 6.3.5 with Kwin wayland session
• Nvidia driver version: 570.153.02

Footnotes

1. As workaround I found that with magic SysRq request for SIGTERM to all processes, i can bypass/kill hanged nvidia(?) scripts. Keyboard shortcut: Alt+SysRq(PrtSc)+e ↩

Update: after upgrading nvidia driver to 575.64 and linux to 6.14.11, hibernation works correctly.
But have issues with video playback in chromium(page content freezes when starting video playback). Nvidia :)

It works for me. I got Ubuntu 24.04 and nvidia driver Version: 575.57.08.

The original status was:

$ systemctl list-unit-files | grep nvidia
nvidia-hibernate.service                       disabled        enabled
nvidia-persistenced.service                    enabled         enabled
nvidia-powerd.service                          disabled        enabled
nvidia-resume.service                          disabled        enabled
nvidia-suspend-then-hibernate.service          disabled        enabled
nvidia-suspend.service                         disabled        enabled

I ran the following command:

$ sudo systemctl enable nvidia-suspend.service
sudo systemctl enable nvidia-hibernate.service
sudo systemctl enable nvidia-resume.service
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/systemd-suspend.service.wants/nvidia-suspend.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/nvidia-suspend.service.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/systemd-hibernate.service.wants/nvidia-hibernate.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/nvidia-hibernate.service.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/systemd-suspend.service.wants/nvidia-resume.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/nvidia-resume.service.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/systemd-hibernate.service.wants/nvidia-resume.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/nvidia-resume.service.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/systemd-suspend-then-hibernate.service.wants/nvidia-resume.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/nvidia-resume.service.

And then the problem is fixed. It does not wake up immediately after suspending any more:

$ systemctl list-unit-files | grep nvidia
nvidia-hibernate.service                       enabled         enabled
nvidia-persistenced.service                    enabled         enabled
nvidia-powerd.service                          disabled        enabled
nvidia-resume.service                          enabled         enabled
nvidia-suspend-then-hibernate.service          disabled        enabled
nvidia-suspend.service                         enabled         enabled