Install TLP on Ubuntu 16.04. TLP is an advance power management for Linux Ubuntu Systems. TLP is a fabulous tool to reduce overheating and increase laptop battery life in Linux.
TLP is an advanced power management tool for Linux. 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. Please note that TLP is a pure command line tool with automated background tasks. It does not contain a GUI.
TLP 0.9
TLP 0.9 is the latest release of the TLP power management tool. tlp-stat now displays battery charge and last full charge status/values in percentages. It also brings the following changes:
- Block concurrent invocation of tlp
- AHCI runtime power management for host controllers and attached disks
- SATA_LINKPWR_BLACKLIST: exclude SATA host devices from power management
- tlp-stat: Distinguish incompatible hardware from load errors (Issue #160)
- tlp-stat: Display battery charge and capacity values in %
- tlp-stat: More selective suggestions for tp-smapi/acpi-call kernel modules
- tlp-stat: Intel graphics: include i915 parameters enable_dc, enable_psr, modeset
- Processor: Display available scaling governors
- Processor: Intel_pstate: display turbo_pct, num_pstates
- Storage Devices: Recognize blk-mq I/O scheduler
- Storage Devices: SMART attributes Power_Cycle_Count, Unused_Rsvd_Blk_Cnt_Tot,
- TLP Status: Display time and mode of tlp’s last invocation
- TLP Status: Issue warning when systemd-rfkill[@].service is not masked\
- TLP Status: Wireless: display type in interface list
Bugfixes
- Issue #163: handle kernel with built-in acpi_call module properly
- Issue #170: battery discharge does not terminate on ThinkPad E-series
- Issue #172: TLP does not notice power source change
- Issue #175: do not touch wifi on shutdown when unconfigured
- Issue #176: optimize rdw locking heuristics
- tlp-stat: fix ata error count (filter “DevExch” caused by bay inserts)
- tp-smapi: do not load on unsupported ThinkPads
Install TLP on Ubuntu 16.04
Open Terminal and run the following commands to install the latest TLP in Ubuntu via official PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linrunner/tlp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tlp tlp-rdw
For any further info visit http://linrunner.de/en/tlp/tlp.html