Screen dying already?

[marcih]

Thank you for doing the testing!  Did you also monitor the CPU temperature while watching YouTube videos, etc.?  There are more "knobs" for the thermal governor inside the Linux kernel, so it would be good to know how close was the CPU temperature to the configured "passive" trip point value.

I didn't explicitly look out for that, that's a good idea, will do. I did find that the temperature was often at the "passive" trip point when I randomly checked though. I know there are the "performance", "powersave", "ondemand" and "conservative" ACPI governors; does the A64 have its own similar ones, or use that same ones?

Please note that the "traditional" sysctl mechanism is actually available on Arch Linux and, consequently, on Manjaro.  Thus, creating a simple /etc/sysctl.d/90-throttling.conf file, for example, would be all that's needed.  More information can be found in the Arch Linux wiki.

If I understood the documentation correctly, sysctl is related to /proc/sys, not sysfs (/sys). I did try using "sysctl -a" to list all the available variables, but none of them were related to temperature or trip points. Oh and of course, sysctl and sysfsutils are two different things, although the folder names "/etc/sysfs.d" and "/etc/sysctl.d" are inconveniently similar.