KDE Power Profile Selector Not Working (asus-nvidia)
I'm a bit slow to the punch here since this started happening a few weeks ago, but the power profile selector in KDE plasma has stopped working semi-recently, after an update.
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tuned/tuned/ppd/ppd.conf at 35eed3ca3ecd54aea38d86dc4545096b3531e18...
Tuning Profile Delivery Mechanism for Linux. Contribute to redhat-performance/tuned development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Check the tuned and tuned-ppd services
Likely an error preventing one of them from starting
Tuned is running, tuned-ppd errors out with the following:
You are missing part of your config
Specifically for the battery
I can find a stock config file on their GitHub for you but I'm driving so it's going to take a minute
Yeah no prob, no rush, I've got a patchwork solution in the meantime
I will look into automatically resetting that config later so people in your position are just automatically corrected
Should be fairly trivial to look for part of the missing bit and then just wipe it out if it's not there
I've literally just aliased "bat", "bal" and "perf" to asusctl commands on the host for now :huntershruggy:
since i have a terminal open 99% of the time it worked enough that I didn't feel as much urgency to report it
@Kyle Gospo Any update on this?
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tuned/tuned/ppd/ppd.conf at 35eed3ca3ecd54aea38d86dc4545096b3531e18...
Tuning Profile Delivery Mechanism for Linux. Contribute to redhat-performance/tuned development by creating an account on GitHub.
replace your config file w/ that
and it'll start working
Bingo, took a restart, and it's working good as new
Looks like I was wrong, it's not actually changing the profile, atleast not as far as asusctl is concerned
usually it's reflected in that
asusctl is it's own thing, I would ignore that
watch tuned instead
that's all this is controlling
so you'd just advise against using asusctl for that?
yep
got it
tuned offers
tuned-adm
for CLI
there's also tuned-gtk you can layer if you want a UI for itI see, alright then, that should do the trick
thanks for the help
np
Oh, right, tuned-adm doesn't manage fan curves does it? that was the primary reason for me using asusctl
it does not, you can continue to use asusctl for that
I will keep that in mind
or maybe try coolercontrol
good point actually, and that should tie into the tuned profile?
no but tuned is very customizable
could probably set something up to change it
Would it be theoretically possible to, say, have tuned-adm invoke
asusctl profile -P Performance when it's set to throughput-performance or something to that effect?
That's kinda what I'm looking for
Just having the KDE applet manage both, since I have my fan curves set pretty much to my liking via asusctlthis would be directly conflicting with eachother
since asusctl and tuned set similar values
but it could work
Well regardless just having the applet also setting fan curves in one way or another
that's the goal, anyway
I set pretty aggressive fan curves for games and whatnot since I'm dealing with a laptop
Furthermore is
throughput-performance ideal for gaming workloads, since tuned-adm says it's tailored towards server workloads
oh wait, it is affecting fan curves now
That's another thing (sorry for pulling you in constantly over this). Coolercontrol doesn't have the ability to control my fans. sudo sensors-detect ends up giving me
I understand why, but it seems like the only thing that can control my fan curves is asusctlYeah in that case you're stuck with asus then
Right, well it's not the worst thing in the world. but is there a way to make the KDE power widget hook into asusctl under those circumstances?
There is not
You would need to set up tuned to make the calls you need
Through custom profiles, I assume?
then just use that custom profile for the respective profile in ppd.conf?
Yea
got it, I'll see if I can make that work
again, thanks for dealing with my bs lmao
np