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I don't understand why the powertop tunings aren't the default when the distro detects it's running on a laptop.

• iforgotpassword 4y ago
  The most annoying thing that prevents me from running --auto-tune on bootup is that there's no way to exclude USB devices. So if I boot when docked, the mouse will stop working when I don't move it for a few seconds and I need to click to make it work again. And no, unplugging it once is not an acceptable solution.
  • rektide 4y ago
    It just got added in 2023, but there's now --auto-tune-dump which generates a command line invocation of powertop that would set all the auto-tune settings. Instead of running --auto-tune, you can make a script of this dump, modify it to your contentment, and run the script instead of auto-tune at startup. So you can omit your mouse! Ideally there would also be a way to omit certain device or subsystem tunings from auto-tune as well. Personally I think it'd be fun to mess around with more advanced schemes, where we dynamically alter powersaving behaviors based on user behavior. What we have now seems somewhat unresponsive. It'd be fun to dive into. https://github.com/fenrus75/powertop/pull/116 https://github.com/fenrus75/powertop/pull/116
    • iforgotpassword 4y ago
      Awesome! Yes, I was thinking about doing this manually by toggling every setting manually and copying the command being displayed but gave up quite quickly as it was too cumbersome. Sometimes the screen would refresh before you copied so you had to do it again... This option solves that nicely.