Undervolting on Bazzite for an Intel CPU?
Heya, I'm fairly new to Linux but I'm liking it a lot. My issue is that in the laptop I installed Bazzite if not undervolted it will go to dangerously high temps while playing demanding games like Elden Ring.
In windows this is managed by undervolting the CPU with throttlestop, but I don't know how to do the same on linux, doing some googling I found this https://github.com/kitsunyan/intel-undervolt but I'm having trouble installing it I think because of Bazzite being an immutable distro?
Not sure how to work around that.
here's the message I get when I try to
./configure && make && sudo make install
Enable systemd: false Enable elogind: false Enable OpenRC: false bindir: /usr/bin sysconfdir: /etc gcc -o intel-undervolt config.o measure.o main.o modes.o power.o scaling.o stat.o undervolt.o util.o -lm collect2: error fatal: cannot find ‘ld’ compilation terminated. make: *** [Makefile:74: intel-undervolt] Error 1
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GitHub - kitsunyan/intel-undervolt: Intel CPU undervolting and thro...
Intel CPU undervolting and throttling configuration tool - kitsunyan/intel-undervolt
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Solution
you can build that in a distrobox container
and then move it to /usr/local/bin (by copying to a shared folder like ~/Downloads, and then copying to there from the host terminal)
and run it as root
Thanks, I'll look into distrobox and report back
Hello, I tinkered with it yesterday and I managed to compile it successfully I think, but the use of the tool seems to be a bit out of my league and I couldn't figure it out so I wasn't able to undervolt the laptop. But the recommendation worked! Thanks a lot!