Slimbook-Team/slimbookbattery

Regarding changing settings on connection to AC

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siddhpant commented

Originally posted by me in #88 (comment).

Since it was too off-topic for that issue, hence created a new one. This is a continuation of that conversation.

once you connect the ac, governor will switch to performance , and stop using the bat settings (1st column). You can check it with sudo tlp stat -p

It doesn't change when I connect AC. I will use monitor mode of auto-cpufreq to show this (since it uses an update loop and shows battery status).

I set energy saving mode, and the output is as below which is expected (ignore suggestion):

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Now when I connect battery, the output is as below:

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So it didn't change.

If I change the mode to maximum performance, the output still remains the same, because the 1st column settings don't apply when on AC:

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Here is the max performance setting for reference:

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Also, it seems the "Disable animation" switch has negative logic. If I turn it on, then animations are enabled. Maybe it was intended to be yes/no, but then implemented as a switch.

slimbook commented

I see, in my tests does not happen, can you attach the file /etc/tlp.conf please?

siddhpant commented

I see, in my tests does not happen, can you attach the file /etc/tlp.conf please?

https://gist.github.com/siddhpant/86b13502b7787307baf526797b9297ff

slimbook commented

Try using the restore default values button, accept changes, and check that CPU_SCALING_GOVERNOR_ON_AC parameter is not empty.

slimbook commented

I've detected that this happens only on low config mode, I'm working to fix this.

slimbook commented

If you don't want to wait for the update, you can update the default configuration locally as in the commit, and restore values.
/home/(user)/.config/slimbookbattery/default/ahorrodeenergia

siddhpant commented

Hello, sorry for replying late.

Try using the restore default values button, accept changes, and check that CPU_SCALING_GOVERNOR_ON_AC parameter is not empty.

I restored the default values, and checked. It is indeed empty.

$ grep CPU_SCALING_GOVERNOR_ON_AC /etc/tlp.conf
CPU_SCALING_GOVERNOR_ON_AC=

I've detected that this happens only on low config mode, I'm working to fix this.

I'm not sure what this means. If you are saying it won't happen if I am on other modes like balanced and max perf, then that is incorrect since it happens in it too.

$ grep CPU_SCALING_GOVERNOR_ON_AC .config/slimbookbattery/default/*
.config/slimbookbattery/default/ahorrodeenergia:CPU_SCALING_GOVERNOR_ON_AC=
.config/slimbookbattery/default/equilibrado:CPU_SCALING_GOVERNOR_ON_AC=
.config/slimbookbattery/default/maximorendimiento:CPU_SCALING_GOVERNOR_ON_AC=

And yeah, I am on an AMD laptop.