On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 08:45:09AM +0900, Kan-Ru Chen wrote: > 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.
I see, that would be better indeed I think. Otoh maybe things are better then I think they are. I've had problems in the past with auto-tune (mostly usb related) and when it was still common to run xorg and a window manager I never installed it due to that. Maybe it's just bad luck. Kind regards, Axel
