# Power-profiles-daemon doesn't function on a couple machines

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**Created:** [December 18, 2022, 1:21am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/power-profiles-daemon-doesnt-function-on-a-couple-machines/34940 "2022-12-18T01:21:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![tlmiller76](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/tlmiller76/32/96350_2.png) [@tlmiller76](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/tlmiller76)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 1:21am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/power-profiles-daemon-doesnt-function-on-a-couple-machines/34940/1 "2022-12-18T01:21:57Z")

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So, I have endeavour installed on 4 machines. On 2 of them (Lenovo ThinkPad T14s G3 AMD & Dere v14s) power-profiles-daemon works like I’d expect. I can change power profiles via the battery icon in the plasma system tray, and I can set the power profile to switch to when it switches to plugged in, battery, and low battery.  
The other 2 machines, a HP ProBook 445 G8 and a Dell Inspiron 7415 2-in-1 it doesn’t work like I’d expect. It’s installed, enabled, and shows running. However, there is no option to change profile for the battery icon, and if I go to configure power options, the only choice for switch to profile is “leave unchanged”.  
If I do a powerprofilesctl I just get “placeholder” as the driver for balanced & power-saver, and there is no “performance” section.  
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling\_driver shows the amd-pstate driver being used on both, which is the same as the T14s G3 AMD.  
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling\_governor shows schedutil being used, which is the same as the T14s G3 AMD.  
Not sure what else to look at to see where the issue lies.

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**Author:** ![joekamprad](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/joekamprad/32/77608_2.png) [@joekamprad](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/joekamprad)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 1:40am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/power-profiles-daemon-doesnt-function-on-a-couple-machines/34940/2 "2022-12-18T01:40:19Z")

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> **[Bastien Nocera / power-profiles-daemon · GitLab](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/hadess/power-profiles-daemon/)**
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> Makes power profiles handling available over D-Bus.

Is best supported on intel CPU AMD is working in most cases but on newer CPU like Ryzen not that well…