I have a rtx 4070ti and in the logs I am seeing “Found unsupported configuration. Exiting…”. I was looking into the error and found https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-powerd-service-fails-to-start/304927 which claims it is for laptops. Since mine is a desktop gpu can I just disable this service? I do not thing it will harm anything as it is failing to start. systemctl status nvidia-powerd shows the same error and the failed state.
The linked content refers to Pop OS , what system and OS are you using ?
nvidia-powerd is the “Dynamic Boost” / power-balancing daemon that Nvidia
ships for laptops. It only does something when the BIOS exposes the
GPU’s power rail through ACPI – desktop cards like your RTX 4070 Ti don’t
have that interface, so the daemon starts, sees “unsupported configuration”,
and quits. Nothing on a desktop system uses it, so you can safely turn it
off.
# stop it right now
sudo systemctl stop nvidia-powerd.service
# keep it from starting on the next boot
sudo systemctl disable nvidia-powerd.service
# (or sudo systemctl mask nvidia-powerd.service if you want it gone for good)
The rest of the Nvidia driver stack (persistence daemon, X module, CUDA,
etc.) is unaffected, and you’ll no longer see the “unsupported configuration”
message in the logs.
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