System fails to suspend: NVIDIA GPU PM error -5 (PreserveVideoMemoryAl

besstsoft@gmail.com · Today 05:10:03

Hello everyone,

I'm experiencing an issue with my laptop failing to suspend. I left it on battery power for 15 minutes, and instead of sleeping, the screen froze with kernel panic/errors. This started happening after I enabled early KMS by adding nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm to the MODULES array in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf.

Hardware & Setup:

Laptop: ASUS VivoBook 15 X510UF

CPU: Intel Core i5-8250U

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce MX130 (Optimus)

OS/DE: Arch Linux, KDE Plasma 6 (Wayland)

[ 1283.710603] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations module parameter is set. System Power Management attempted without driver procfs suspend interface. Please refer to the 'Configuring Power Management' section in the driver README.
[ 1283.710620] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: PM: pci_pm_suspend(): nv_pmops_suspend [nvidia] returns -5
[ 1283.712651] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: PM: dpm_run_callback(): pci_pm_suspend returns -5
[ 1283.712670] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: PM: failed to suspend async: error -5
[ 1283.733727] PM: Some devices failed to suspend, or early wake event detected

Has anyone encountered this specific suspend issue after configuring Early KMS? The nvidia-suspend, nvidia-hibernate, and nvidia-resume services are enabled. Any guidance would be appreciated!

seth · Today 06:44:24

Please post your complete system journal for the boot:

sudo journalctl -b |  curl -s -H "Accept: application/json, */*" --upload-file - 'https://paste.c-net.org/'

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA … er_suspend
nb.

The wiki wrote:

NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations in the 430-590 series drivers), it enables saving all video memory (given enough space on disk or RAM). With 595+ drivers, it has been succeeded by the NVreg_UseKernelSuspendNotifiers=1

besstsoft@gmail.com · Today 13:45:31

seth wrote:

Please post your complete system journal for the boot:

https://paste.c-net.org/ShuttersPlace/

seth · Today 15:02:02

The implication was "covering such incident" - the journal doesn't contain a sleep attempt.

чер 11 16:23:27 archlinux kernel: NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  580.159.04  Wed Apr 29 17:32:45 UTC 2026
чер 11 16:23:26 archlinux kernel: Kernel command line: root=PARTUUID=4a94c7ce-f378-4b0d-9ed9-1e026506aa3b zswap.enabled=0 rootflags=subvol=@ rw rootfstype=btrfs quiet splash loglevel=3 usbcore.quirks=13d3:5a07:i acpi_osi="Windows 2015" nvidia_drm.modeset=1 nvidia.NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1

If would thus see the userspace services are not enbaled?

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#1 Today 05:10:03

System fails to suspend: NVIDIA GPU PM error -5 (PreserveVideoMemoryAl

#2 Today 06:44:24

Re: System fails to suspend: NVIDIA GPU PM error -5 (PreserveVideoMemoryAl

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Re: System fails to suspend: NVIDIA GPU PM error -5 (PreserveVideoMemoryAl

#4 Today 15:02:02

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