Linux Advanced Power Management for Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial
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 Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus LTS GNU/Linux Desktop.
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.
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Open a Terminal Shell emulator window
Ctrl+Alt+t on Desktop
(Press “Enter” to Execute Commands) -
Installing TLP on Ubuntu.
sudo apt install tlp tlp-rdw
This little daemon after works on background managing the power…
ThinkPads require an additional:sudo apt install tp-smapi-dkms acpi-call-dkms
You must Disable Secure Boot to use the ThinkPad specific packages.
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Starting the TLP daemon without ReBoot.
sudo tlp start
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Check if TLP is Working.
tlp-stat -s