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Using Mint 18.1 with the recently released 4.14 Kernel / Ryzen 1700X (Downloaded from Official Ubuntu server). Everything works fine but I'm unable to set the governor. I never really bothered with it on this system and if I can squeeze a little more performance I'll gladly go for it.
Running cpufreq-info in terminal provides the following output for all cores:
analyzing CPU 0:
no or unknown cpufreq driver is active on this CPU
maximum transition latency: 4294.55 ms.
as for cpu governor, some games dont even pull this cpu to load so yeah cpu governor can help.
try installing cpupower
and you can use something like this:
#freq=cpupower frequency-info |grep "current"*
# by xpander
if [[ $# -eq 1 ]]; then
case $1 in
"-p")
pkexec cpupower frequency-set -g performance && notify-send "Performance Mode" "Cpu clocks set to perfromance mode" -t 2000 -i messagebox_info;;
"-c")
pkexec cpupower frequency-set -g schedutil && notify-send "Schedutil Mode" "Cpu clocks set to conservative mode" -t 2000 -i messagebox_info;;
"-o")
pkexec cpupower frequency-set -g ondemand && notify-send "Ondemand Mode" "Cpu clocks set to ondemand mode" -t 2000 -i messagebox_info;;
"-s")
pkexec cpupower frequency-set -g powersave && notify-send "Powersave Mode" "Cpu clocks set to powersave mode" -t 2000 -i messagebox_info;;
*)
echo "Invalid option";;
esac
fi
you can get the commands from the script. pkexec is used for not having to type admin password as i have done polkit rules. but you can use it with sudo as well.