From 8fe618664d121c85be242363e47348e67d921860 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Max Maslenko Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2022 15:28:12 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update Readme Troubleshooting with How to Disable AMD-Pstate --- README.md | 14 +++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index f1e71df0..11610639 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -280,16 +280,24 @@ If daemon has been installed, live stats of CPU/system load monitoring and optim * CPU is not scaling to minimum/maximum frequencies * suboptimal CPU performance -**A:** If you're using `intel_pstate` CPU management driver consider changing it to: `acpi-cpufreq`. +**A:** If you're using `intel_pstate/amd-pstate` CPU management driver, consider changing it to `acpi-cpufreq`. -This can be done by editing `/etc/default/grub` file and appending `intel_pstate=disable` to `GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT` line, followed by `sudo update-grub` +This can be done by editing the `GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT` params in `/etc/default/grub`. -Example line change: +For Intel users: ``` GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash intel_pstate=disable" ``` +For AMD users: + +``` +GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash initcall_blacklist=amd_pstate_init amd_pstate.enable=0" +``` + +After you are done, run `sudo update-grub` or `sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg`, if you are using Arch. + ## Discussion: * Blogpost: [auto-cpufreq - Automatic CPU speed & power optimizer for Linux](http://foolcontrol.org/?p=3124)