After hours of experimenting on this laptop :

Computer : PC Specialist OptimusIX 15 (aka Clevo N8xxEP6)
BIOS : American Megatrends 1.07.13
OS : Arch Linux
GPU : NVIDIA GTX 1060 Mobile 

Until recently, any attempt to use bumblebee or acpi commands to power
down the GPU have resulted in a system freeze with lspci, suspend, power
cable plug in, etc.  No kernel line parameters seem to have any effect.

I have discovered that the system freeze is closely linked to the
interaction between the nvidia graphics card on pci address 0000:01:00.0
and its associated sound card at pci address 0000:01:00.1  (I don't
actually know what that sound card is doing - I presume it's for the
HDMI port?)

If I completely disable the audio card using :
echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.1/remove

Then the system hangs are completely cured - I can acpi _OFF or _ON or
_PS3 or _PS0 to my hearts content and the gfx card will power up and
down perfectly, lspci behaves perfectly normally (without any lag), and
suspend/resume and power cable plug/unplug all works.  Even better,
kernel power management on the PCI bus seems to work perfectly too, but
only kicks in when I rmmod nvidia.  So far, bumblebee and bbswitch also
seem to be totally happy.

Can anybody else confirm similar findings?

Bear in mind that the audio card needs to be removed BEFORE the kernel
loads any audio modules.  I do it like this :

[Unit]
Description=Nvidia Audio Card OnBoot Disabler
Before=bumblebeed.service

[Service]
Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=yes
ExecStart=/usr/bin/sh -c "echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.1/remove"
ExecStop=/usr/bin/sh -c "echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/rescan"

[Install]
WantedBy=sysinit.target

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  System does not reliably come out of suspend

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