How to Save Battery & Prevent Overheating on Debian 8 Jessie

Linux Advanced Power Management for Debian 8 Jessie

Hi! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-Step How to Install a little Daemon which serves as Battery Power/Life Saver and to Prevent CPU Excessive Heating on Debian 8 Jessie 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.

1. Open a Shell Terminal emulator window
   (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)

   

   In case first see: Terminal QuickStart Guide.

2. First, SetUp the TLP Apt Repo.

   (And in case of “su: Authentication failure” try instead with “sudo su“)

   su -c "echo 'deb http://repo.linrunner.de/debian jessie main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tlp.list"

   Import the GPG Key with:

   su -c "apt-key adv --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys 641EED65CD4E8809"

   Then Update the Repositories:

   sudo apt-get update

3. Installing TPL on Debian.

   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.

4. Starting the TPL daemon without ReBoot.

   sudo tlp start

5. Check if TPL is Working.

   tlp-stat -s