On 25/01/2023 17:34, Stephen Morris wrote:
On 25/1/23 21:25, Frederic Muller wrote:
On 25/01/2023 17:01, Barry Scott wrote:

On 25/01/2023 06:30, Frederic Muller wrote:
Hi!

It seems i can only stay in Power Saver mode, balanced seems to be clickable but quickly reverts to Power Saver and Performance is not even clickable.

Any idea if there is any way to do that 'manually' as my laptop is really slow now.
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Where do I find the logs?
Where are you finding the power settings. I'm not using a laptop but in KDE in the system settings under Power Management I don't seem to have the options you are referring to.

Ok I found some help in the doc....

running this sudo G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all /usr/libexec/power-profiles-daemon -r -v
Gives me:

** (power-profiles-daemon:6704): DEBUG: 19:10:47.581: Starting power-profiles-daemon version 0.12
(power-profiles-daemon:6704): GLib-GIO-DEBUG: 19:10:47.582: Using cross-namespace EXTERNAL authentication (this will deadlock if server is GDBus < 2.73.3)
** (power-profiles-daemon:6704): DEBUG: 19:10:47.583: Handling driver 'fake'
** (power-profiles-daemon:6704): DEBUG: 19:10:47.583: probe() failed for driver fake, skipping
** (power-profiles-daemon:6704): DEBUG: 19:10:47.583: Handling driver 'platform_profile'
(power-profiles-daemon:6704): GLib-GIO-DEBUG: 19:10:47.583: _g_io_module_get_default: Found default implementation local (GLocalVfs) for ‘gio-vfs’
** (power-profiles-daemon:6704): DEBUG: 19:10:47.586: ACPI performance_profile is now l, so profile is detected as power-saver
** (power-profiles-daemon:6704): DEBUG: 19:10:47.586: Found a dytc_lapmode sysfs attribute to thinkpad_acpi
** (power-profiles-daemon:6704): DEBUG: 19:10:47.586: Handling driver 'intel_pstate'
** (power-profiles-daemon:6704): DEBUG: 19:10:47.586: Driver 'platform_profile' already probed, skipping driver 'intel_pstate'
** (power-profiles-daemon:6704): DEBUG: 19:10:47.586: Handling driver 'placeholder'
** (power-profiles-daemon:6704): DEBUG: 19:10:47.586: Driver 'platform_profile' already probed, skipping driver 'placeholder'
** (power-profiles-daemon:6704): DEBUG: 19:10:47.587: Handling action 'trickle_charge'
** (power-profiles-daemon:6704): DEBUG: 19:10:47.587: Applying profile 'power-saver' from configuration file
** (power-profiles-daemon:6704): DEBUG: 19:10:47.587: Setting active profile 'power-saver' for reason 'reset' (current: 'power-saver')
** (power-profiles-daemon:6704): DEBUG: 19:10:47.587: Can't switch to power-saver mode, already there


Not sure what to think.

Fred