How to Save Battery & Prevent Overheating on Fedora 24+

Linux Advanced Power Management for Fedora 24+

Hi! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-Step How to Install a little Daemon which serves as Laptop Battery Power/Life Saver and to Prevent CPU Excessive Heating on Fedora 24/25/26 GNU/Linux Desktops.

TLP brings you the benefits of advanced power management for Linux without the need to understand every technical detail.

TLP comes with a default configuration already optimized for battery life, so you may just install and forget it.

Nevertheless TLP is highly customizable to fulfil your specific requirements.

1. Open a Shell Terminal emulator window
   Start Typing ‘term’ on Desktop.
   (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)

   

2. How to Enable RPM Fusion Repos on Fedora 22+

   Enabling RPM Fusion Repos

   Setup Rpm Fusion on Fedora

3. SetUp the TLP Repo.

   sudo dnf install http://repo.linrunner.de/fedora/tlp/repos/releases/tlp-release-1.0-0.noarch.rpm

4. Installing TLP on Fedora.

   sudo dnf install tlp tlp-rdw

   ThinkPads only require an additional:

   sudo dnf install akmod-tp_smapi akmod-acpi_call kernel-devel

   You must Disable Secure Boot to use the ThinkPad specific packages.
   Last:

   sudo systemctl mask systemd-rfkill.socket systemd-rfkill.service

   This little daemon after works on background managing the power…

5. Starting the TLP daemon without ReBoot.

   sudo tlp start

6. Check if TLP is Working.

   tlp-stat -s

Thanks to aq902k.