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

As for the responses of tommyliu and pgbarletta, I am unsure whether they are helpful, because they are using driver 570, and the problem has been fixed starting from driver 565 according to ethan2009.

It's not fixed in 570 branch. People still have this problem on 570. Few days ago I upgraded from 535.183.01 to 570.133.07 and was hit with this problem for the first time. Hibernate seems to work ok though, it's sleep/suspend that gives the error/problem. EDIT: Hibernate stopped also working. Downgraded to 535.230.02 and everything works again. Nvidia still has way too many problems in linux.

I'm losing my mind and time with this problem on

• Fedora 42 kernel 6.14.5-300.fc42.x86_64
• 570.144 drivers.

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

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

This fixed my issues! Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS, Driver Version: 580.82.07, CUDA Version: 12.8

Initial tests, this works for me on Mint 22.2, Driver Version: 580.105.08 to get suspend working:
systemctl enable nvidia-suspend.service
systemctl enable nvidia-hibernate.service
systemctl enable nvidia-resume.service

my /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-graphics-drivers-kms.conf:
options nvidia-drm modeset=1
options nvidia NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=0
options nvidia NVreg_TemporaryFilePath=/var/tmp