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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world [S] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Thanks. You don't happen to know if there's a list of the models that have that issue and/or a page on how to fix it, do you?

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[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Laptop/Lenovo#Lenovo

This page from the Arch Wiki might be a good start

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world [S] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is Arch similar enough to Mint to make any issues there the same?

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[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I'd say for the most part. The Arch Wiki does a decent job at least pointing users in the right direction. The path to solving it may be a bit different. For example you may need to find the equivalent package on Mint and it might have a different name.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world [S] 1 point 2 years ago

Great, thanks!

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[–] Shareni@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

From what I've seen, hardware issues usually come from the hardware manufacturer and not the distro. For example on my t480 the CPU is perma throttled because intel didn't release a patch.

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[–] lilith267@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Did you change your bios settings to performance? I had the same problem but changing both bios and power management to performance finnaly let my CPU boost to advertised speeds

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[–] Shareni@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Also t480? This is the only solution I found online, but I didn't try it out.

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[–] lilith267@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago

Also t480 - i5-8350u CPU.

My process was to update firmware with fwupd -> change TLP to performance(depending on desktop environment you may have a battery life settings panel) -> reboot into bios and change power settings to performance.

Ran a benchmark and my CPU was running at full power when it was limiting itself to 2Ghz before.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world [S] 1 point 2 years ago

That is not good news. I do not want a perma throttled CPU. I'm not going to be doing anything that would require it. So I hope the T460 doesn't have that problem.