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describing how to change intel_pstate driver to acpi-cpufreq
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AdnanHodzic committed Aug 14, 2021
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`auto-cpufreq --stats`

## Troubleshooting

**Q:** If after installing auto-cpufreq you're (still) experiencing:
* high CPU temperatures
* CPU is not scaling to minimum/maximum frequencies
* suboptimal CPU peformance

**A:** If you're using `intel_pstate` CPU management driver consider changing it to: `acpi-cpufreq`.

This can be done by editting `/etc/default/grub` file and appending `intel_pstate=disable` to `GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT` line, followed by `sudo update-grub`

Example line change:

```
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash intel_pstate=disable"
```

## Discussion:

* Blogpost: [auto-cpufreq - Automatic CPU speed & power optimizer for Linux](http://foolcontrol.org/?p=3124)
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