SUMMARY When selecting the `Balanced` power profile from the `Power and Battery` widget, it sets the governor to `powersave` instead. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Go to the 'Power and Battery' widget 2. Select 'Balanced' from the three options ('Power Save', 'Balanced', and 'Performance' 3. `cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor` or `cpupower frequency-info` OBSERVED RESULT The `cat` outputs `powersave`. For the option `Power Save`, it outputs `powersave`, and for `Performance`, it outputs `performance` (the latter two are correct). EXPECTED RESULT I think `Balanced` is supposed to return `ondemand`, but it definitely isn't supposed to return `powersave`. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: Linux 6.12.11-1; KDE Plasma 6.2.5 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Desktop; CPU is a Ryzen 7 5800X.
This is an issue with the under-the-hood implementation, which is unfortunately outside of KDE's control. If the implementation you're using is tuned (which I know Fedora uses by default now, dunno about Manjaro), then it's a known bug which will be fixed with https://github.com/redhat-performance/tuned/pull/732. If the implementation you're using is power-profiles-daemon, then the issue is in the device firmware shipped by your hardware vendor.
> If the implementation you're using is power-profiles-daemon, then the issue > is in the device firmware shipped by your hardware vendor. Hi, Nate. I appreciate the timely and thorough response. I checked, and I'm indeed on `power-profiles-daemon`. It just struck me as weird because my `energy_performance_available_preferences` are `default`, `performance`, `balance_performance`, `balance_power`, and `power`, so evidently my CPU is exposing two balanced modes.