XFCE Power Management

vlamnire0 · 2011-09-22 23:10:58

I have the XFCE cpu scaling monitor applet running and I cannot change the CPU governor. If I set it to anything and click close and open it again it is back on performance instead of conservative. I have cpufreq-utils installed and I have edited my rc.conf to have the acpi-cpufreq cpufreq_demand cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_conservative and cpufreq_performance modules to load. How can I get it to save my settings?

Secondly, when I check "Spin down hard disks" in xfce4-power-manager under On Battery and click close then open it again it is unchecked. How can I keep it checked?

Last edited by vlamnire0 (2011-09-22 23:11:44)

the sad clown · 2011-09-23 00:39:41

Check dmesg to see if there are any error messages when you do this.

vlamnire0 · 2011-09-23 02:01:22

How would I do such a thing. I tried the dmesg command but that seems to only tell me booting logs.

the sad clown · 2011-09-23 12:59:01

It seems fairly obvious that there is a disconnect between your GUI frontend and whatever Xfce uses on the backend to manipulate these settings. However, I don't know if it is a permissions issue or something else. dmesg isn't a boot log, it is an interface for kernel and module messages and is usually a good place for looking when something goes wrong. There are other logs that are more specific in your /var/log directory.

Run dmesg --clear, then perform some of these actions and run dmesg again. This will clear all of the boot messages and leave you with only the messages that occurred after you cleared it.

RuiFlora · 2012-03-18 00:58:39

I have the same issue with a fresh xfce4 install from today. I have the laptop-mode-tools loaded so I would like to know if I really have to spin down the hard disks directly from the xfce4 power manager.

nierro · 2012-03-18 09:12:23

@vlamnire: you wrote:

cpufreq_demand

, is this a mistake?
By the way, have you changed /etc/conf.d/cpufreq to suit your needs? Or do you only want to use xfce4-panel-applet?
You can try

cpufreq-info

to see what is the real freq you're running.
Post here your cpufreq-info.

edit: old post, is this fixed?
@rui Flora, try to do what i said above.

Last edited by nierro (2012-03-18 09:13:47)

silvik · 2012-03-19 09:03:55

i found xfce4-power-manager to be quite unreliable, so now i use jupiter from aur, it gets the job done.

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#1 2011-09-22 23:10:58

XFCE Power Management

#2 2011-09-23 00:39:41

Re: XFCE Power Management

#3 2011-09-23 02:01:22

Re: XFCE Power Management

#4 2011-09-23 12:59:01

Re: XFCE Power Management

#5 2012-03-18 00:58:39

Re: XFCE Power Management

#6 2012-03-18 09:12:23

Re: XFCE Power Management

#7 2012-03-19 09:03:55

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