F38 power profile can't switch out of "Power Saver" to balanced or performance with ui or cli

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I am on a thinkpad 7840u and am permanently stuck in power saver mode regardless of bios settings, using the cli with gnome, or changing the associated /sys files. I’ve heard of this problem in kernel 6.1 but thought it was resolved since then. Tested on 6.4, 6.5 and F39 beta does not solve issue.

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Can you paste the output of powerprofilesctl list ?

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$ powerprofilesctl list
  performance:
    Driver:     platform_profile
    Degraded:   no

  balanced:
    Driver:     platform_profile

* power-saver:
    Driver:     platform_profile
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What happens when you powerprofilesctl set balanced or performance? Do you get any error messages?

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Unfortunately no error messages. No matter how fast I powerprofilesctl get after setting to balanced or performance it always returns power-saver.

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Hello @glome ,
I found powerprofiles daemon to be my problem. I uninstalled it and installed tuned and got better results. You may want to try tuned.

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Hmm. I set to balanced and am getting 10W power consumption on average with web browser open doing nothing. On windows it’s ~3W.

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Is that using tuned? I just suggested it since it is seemingly more configurable than the default. In my case it identified my desktop as a laptop for some unknown reason, and wouldn’t let me choose anything other than powersaver.

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Oh, I just read an article from phoronix about how it’s something with the firmware that the manufacturer needs to figure out. Thanks.

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That is absolutely possible. These modes are dependent on the system firmware.