Hi, On Wed, Oct 22, 2025, at 1:56 AM, Axel Scheepers wrote: > Package: powertop > Version: 2.15-4 > Severity: normal > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] > > Dear Maintainer, > > * What led up to the situation? > > Powertop is started at boot with the auto-tune option. It got installed > because it is a recommended package for task-laptop; my laptop is a > Lenovo L14 Gen 1. > > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or > ineffective)? > * What was the outcome of this action? > > When powertop auto-tunes my keyboard starts acting up and every once > in a while a key gets 'stuck' and keeps repeating until I either > reboot or suspend and wakeup the laptop. > > * What outcome did you expect instead? > > Either it works for all systems (doubtful) or auto-tune at boot is > disabled. I've added more system information below and added a full > acpidump from the system.
The intention was for it to be disabled by default. You see the instruction in /usr/share/doc/powertop/README.Debian However, if powertop was installed during fresh install, the systemd.preset behavior might enable auto-tune by default. To prevent this I think we might need to ship a preset rule to disable the unit by default. -- Kan-Ru Chen Debian Developer
