Cannot apply profile at boot, and CPU boost is locked

[thdtt]

Problem I've create a profile and apply it to my machine. Everything is OK till I restart or shutdown my laptop then turn on back. After reboot, In Profile tab, it returns "No profile" as image 1 though I've set my profile at boot as image 2

• Image 1: "No profile" at startup

• Image 2: Set default profile at boot and CPU maximum frequency is locked at 1600MHz

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behaviour:

1. Create a new profile, then apply settings
2. Select it as default profile at boot
3. Restart machine
4. Profile return "No profile" and configuration is diffirent to my profile

Expected behaviour Boot to machine with default profile as I've set.

Setup (please complete the following information):

• Distro: Manjaro 21.1 Gnome 40 on Xorg (and Wayland)
• Package version: AUR package at this link
• Installed via: pamac, also clone it and make install via makepkg
• Chipset: Intel core i5 8250U 400 Mhz - 3400 Mhz

Additional context

• systemctl output:

• systemctl status output:

[supdrewin]

The cpupower-gui.service is a system service seems only apply the root profile at boot due to the config file saved location, to apply your user profile at login, try this command to enable the user service:

systemctl --user enable cpupower-gui-user

Package version: AUR package at this link

It's recommended to install the git version, which fix some known issues.

[supdrewin]

Image 1: "No profile" at startup

By the way, this isn't a bug, No profile is used to disable the Apply btn.

[supdrewin]

Image 2: Set default profile at boot and CPU maximum frequency is locked at 1600MHz

Some Vendor may lock the CPU maximum frequency on BIOS. This is designed for protecting the computer from high temperature. But sometime it's bad. The intel_pstate actually always know the maximum frequency of the CPU, but it may respect the BIOS settings and may disable the Hardware Dynamic Boost default (during the kernel config). If it's possible, check this following:

cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/hwp_dynamic_boost

• 0 means Hardware Dynamic Boost disabled, you may needed to enable it by:

echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/hwp_dynamic_boost

• 1 means Hardware Dynamic Boost enabled, just ignore what I said.