As I mentioned in our private chat, I have serious doubts this is a kernel bug. I can switch governors with the applet, but using the CLI fails.
$ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor performance $ echo "conservative" | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor conservative $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor performance $ echo "ondemand" | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor ondemand $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor performance $ echo "userspace" | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor userspace $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor userspace $ echo "powersave" | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor powersave $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor powersave $ echo "performance" | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor performance
As I mentioned in our private chat, I have serious doubts this is a kernel bug. I can switch governors with the applet, but using the CLI fails.
$ cat /sys/devices/ system/ cpu/cpu0/ cpufreq/ scaling_ governor system/ cpu/cpu0/ cpufreq/ scaling_ governor system/ cpu/cpu0/ cpufreq/ scaling_ governor system/ cpu/cpu0/ cpufreq/ scaling_ governor system/ cpu/cpu0/ cpufreq/ scaling_ governor system/ cpu/cpu0/ cpufreq/ scaling_ governor system/ cpu/cpu0/ cpufreq/ scaling_ governor system/ cpu/cpu0/ cpufreq/ scaling_ governor system/ cpu/cpu0/ cpufreq/ scaling_ governor system/ cpu/cpu0/ cpufreq/ scaling_ governor
performance
$ echo "conservative" | sudo tee /sys/devices/
conservative
$ cat /sys/devices/
performance
$ echo "ondemand" | sudo tee /sys/devices/
ondemand
$ cat /sys/devices/
performance
$ echo "userspace" | sudo tee /sys/devices/
userspace
$ cat /sys/devices/
userspace
$ echo "powersave" | sudo tee /sys/devices/
powersave
$ cat /sys/devices/
powersave
$ echo "performance" | sudo tee /sys/devices/
performance