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I have a Dell XPS with an Nvidia 1050, running Fedora 29. The Nouveau driver was so bad here that I blacklisted all the drivers and just use the Intel GPU. It'

by zlynx 8y ago

I have a Dell XPS with an Nvidia 1050, running Fedora 29. The Nouveau driver was so bad here that I blacklisted all the drivers and just use the Intel GPU. It's the difference between 3 hours or 6 hours of battery. It apparently ran the Nvidia power on even when no program wanted to use it.

bubblethink 8y ago
>It apparently ran the Nvidia power on even when no program wanted to use it. Are you sure you didn't install nvidia drivers? That is a common symptom with nvidia binary drivers. Nouveau on the other hand is fine with powering the device off when not used. For nvidia drivers, the bbswitch method is more reliable, but is apparently deprecated by distros these days.