KDE Plasma Power Profiles not available

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Hi

I’m on a PIneBook Pro, running Manjaro (which was pre-installed):
I’m sure power profiles were working on the KDE battery status indicator before, but they are not available anymore at time of writing:

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power-profiles-daemon is executing correctly:

> systemctl status power-profiles-daemon
● power-profiles-daemon.service - Power Profiles daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/power-profiles-daemon.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sat 2022-10-08 19:29:23 CEST; 6min ago
   Main PID: 408 (power-profiles-)
      Tasks: 3 (limit: 4321)
     Memory: 4.2M
        CPU: 130ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/power-profiles-daemon.service
             └─408 /usr/lib/power-profiles-daemon

and the two available profiles can be listed:

> powerprofilesctl list
* balanced:
    Driver:     placeholder

  power-saver:
    Driver:     placeholder

Any idea, please?

thanks in advance

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The driver in question needs to support it.

And it seems the Pinebook Pro battery does not support it.

3

That’s strange: if I run (from an SD card) this distribution (based on Manjaro kernel) GitHub - SvenKiljan/archlinuxarm-pbp: Arch Linux ARM for Pinebook Pro and GNOME DE, the profiles are shown and can be set…

Moreover, the list shown by powerprofilesctl confirm that they are not available? I thought they’d say the other way round.

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Maybe it’s something Gnome does then?

Have you tried our Gnome edition to see what happens there?

5

Same here on Pinebook Pro with Manjaro KDE (originally installed on the machine, fully upgraded since) : No power profiles available. (But I didn’t know they even existed, so I can’t tell if they were previously available).

6

I’ll try ASAP.

But were you saying that the values shown on the command line confirm that the battery is not supported?

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Is it a recent pinebook pro? I bought mine in 2020, but didn’t use it much so I might remember wrongly.

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Mine is quite recent, from August 2022.