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Scope:

  • Officially supported openSUSE Leap releases and Tumbleweed

Note

Execute the commands below in a root shell or with with a preceding sudo.

Package Installation

Packages are available from the official repositories:

Install them either with your favorite package manager or the command:

zypper install tlp tlp-rdw

openSUSE Leap 15.4 and newer as well as Tumbleweed

Uninstall the conflicting power-profiles-daemon package:

zypper remove power-profiles-daemon

Service Units

To complete the installation you must enable TLP’s service:

systemctl enable tlp.service

You should also mask the following services to avoid conflicts and assure proper operation of TLP’s Radio Device Switching options:

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

See also

Legacy ThinkPads only: External Kernel Module for Battery Care

Important

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (at the time of writing) provides Linux kernel 6.10. In combination with TLP 1.5 or newer it offers full battery care support (i.e. charge thresholds and recalibration) for ThinkPads from model year 2011 onwards.

An external kernel module (also referred to as “out-of-tree” module) is not required in this case, and the following steps are not necessary. However, if your model is from 2011 or older, read on.

Only if the bottom of the output of tlp-stat -b, section ‘Recommendations’, shows the line

Install tp-smapi kernel modules for ThinkPad battery thresholds and recalibration

then install the required package as follows.

openSUSE Tumbleweed: install from the official repository with your favorite package manager or the command

zypper install tp_smapi

openSUSE Leap: browse for community packages of tp_smapi or build the required module from source. Your mileage may vary.