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DGPU waking on video any playback

On Debian Trixie with Intel + RTX 4070 hybrid laptop.

I want NVIDIA GPU fully idle during video playback.

But nvidia-smi shows:

  • process: /usr/bin/gjs
  • ~136MB GPU memory used
  • ~18W power draw even when idle

Intel iGPU is active (confirmed via glxinfo), and video decoding is on Intel VAAPI.

How do I stop gjs from probing the nvidia gpu

u/dread122 — 24 days ago