Nvidia driver 460 MSI GE62-6QC

[marshevms]

Just a few hours ago I updated my nvidia driver from 450 to 460 version and I noticed some things. There is an indicator on my laptop, it shows if discrete graphics are working.

1. RED - nvidia
2. BLUE - intel

Until now, it has always been red, but power saving was enabled in nvidia settings, which means only Intel is running. I remember on some version ubuntu ago it's sometimes was a blue.

Now it sometimes switches to blue and then to red. In most cases, this is a red light. I thought something was wrong with my laptop and I didn't care. But now I open the GUI for testing and noticed that the GPU temperature is sometimes zero and the auto profile value changed sometimes. Again, I thought that something was wrong with the program, but on the server side I didn't change anything. I was looking for bugs. And then I remembered some facts: new driver and indicator glitching.

Now it was necessary to check one fact, what would happen if the driver was rolled back. Do you know what happened? Everything works as before.

P.S. That's it. I don’t know what nvidia is doing there, but something is clearly happening and it looks like the video card does not turn off in the power saving mode, at least on my laptop.

[marshevms]

My config 😁

• Operating System: KDE neon 5.20
• KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.5
• KDE Frameworks Version: 5.77.0
• Qt Version: 5.15.2
• Kernel Version: 5.4.0-60-generic
• OS Type: 64-bit
• Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz
• Memory: 11,4 GiB of RAM
• Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 530 and NVIDIA 960m

[samuelmattjohnston]

The laptop I have does the same thing --
MSI Alpha 15 AMD (A4DEK-005)

white normally, red/orange when using the dedicated graphics.