Hi, i've noticed that changing the power profiles in zorinos 17.2 core doesn't seem to change my cpu governor at all and i'm experiencing some lag as a result as it's always set to the power saving governor. unless i set it in the terminal manually. i'm using a 2021 razerblade base with kernel 6.8.049-generic
this also extends to using some apps to try and set the cpu governor like feral gamemode so i was wondering if anyone has any wise words of wisdom to help out i'd appreciate it. i'm new to linux and haven't had any success with my googling
thank you for your time
edit: i've been looking more into it and from what i can tell im just using intels pstate driver which just has two profiles called "power saving" and "performance" and all the profiles in zorin just select powering saving and the gamemode error might be due to some type of permission issue.
edit x2:
i fixed my gamemode issue if anyone else is having issues you can try adding your user to the gamemode group in the terminal and restarting if that doesn't work it might have to do with ZorinOS using an older polkit version
if you wanna change your intel p-state driver to acpi to allow for more governors although not sure if that's advised i was just having some lag spikes so i wanted to try it anyways i followed this link btw this removed the ability to select the "peformance" profile in gnome all together but since i'm setting it via gamemode i dont mind: An extensive guide to optimizing a Linux laptop for battery life and performance | by Alex Manuskin | Medium
for adding yourself to a group for gamemode i used this link: linux - Ubuntu server - create group, create user, user specific access - Super User
for getting gamemode to work i followed this comment: Gamemode 1.8.1 can't set CPU governor and GPU Optimisation · Issue #452 · FeralInteractive/gamemode · GitHub