MangoHUD/Zenergy Does not seem to report the wattage on Ryzen 9700X

When trying to get MangoHUD to report the CPU wattage of my Ryzen 7 9700x, I am met with 0.0W on MangoHUD. In my searches, I saw this had something to do with needing zenergy, and so I sought to install zenergy, as this seemed to be touted as the be-all end-all solution to the issue. Upon trying to install it I was informed by Bazzite that zenergy is, in fact, installed already, and up to date no less. When I try to run

modprobe zenergy

modprobe zenergy

modprobe zenergy

modprobe zenergy, however, it states that zenergy does not exist. When installed, Goverlay does not seem to be able to enable the wattage reading, and the

chmod

chmod

chmod

chmod thing where you tell the energy_uj file fix does not work either. At this point, I accepted I was in over my head and asked two Linux-knowing friends for help who collectively said "we got nothing, ask the bazzite team." Is my CPU too new, or am I missing a motherboard setting thing somewhere? Any direction is welcome at this point. i've had no luck with either the KDE build or GNOME build of bazzite (not that it would change much but that kinda shows how in over my head I am)

My PC is:
Ryzen 7 9700x
ASUS ROG Strix b850-i Gaming ITX motherboard
32 GB (2 x 16 GB) Crucial PRO Series DDR 5 6000 MT/s
PowerColor Reaper 9060XT 16GB
Crucial P3 Plus 1 TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD (Main drive)
Samsung 970 Plus 2TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD (game drive)

bagman65OP•6/12/25, 10:29 PM

Upon review, I think I might have found the answer but I do not have the know how to verify it. The readme for zenergy mentions 17h, 18h and 19h CPUIDs by name, but the 9000-series of CPUs are CPUID 1Ah instead. I know bazzite uses some sort of fork of zenergy they use, is there any way to view whether there is support for 1Ah CPUs?

KinG_AntZler•7/5/25, 6:50 AM

Did you find any more information on this? I am facing similar issues with my Ryzen 9800X3D

FlawlessVi•7/18/25, 9:45 PM

Have this exact issue with my HX370 in my OneXFly F1 Pro.

bagman65OP•7/26/25, 2:52 PM

Short answer: maybe, but I don’t know enough to try and verify it myself.

Longer answer: in my looking, I saw the amd_energy repo actually does have support for some 1Ah processors now, and looking at bazzite’s specific fork of zenergy, there IS an update from around the same time amd_energy added 1Ah support, and there’s even explicit mention of the 1Ah architecture in that change, which… well, is odd that it still isn’t reporting. Haven’t found anything else on it yet unfortunately

Shantara•7/26/25, 4:35 PM

I can see the wattage of my Zen 5 CPU in CoolerControl, but not in MangoHUD

Shantara•7/26/25, 4:35 PM

So it's working in principle

bagman65OP•7/26/25, 4:50 PM

I'll have to take a look at that next time I boot the computer up

bagman65OP•8/4/25, 2:46 AM

Finally got around to looking, CoolerControl does in fact seem to be able to read that sensor, maybe it's reading from somewhere else?

MangoHUD/Zenergy Does not seem to report the wattage on Ryzen 9700X

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