openSUSE

Scope:

  • Officially supported openSUSE Leap releases and Tumbleweed

Package Installation

Packages are available from the official repositories:

  • tlp – Power saving

  • tlp-pd – optional – Select profile with a mouse click (Version 1.9 and newer)

  • tlp-rdw – optional – Radio Device Wizard

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

Version 1.9 and newer

sudo zypper install tlp tlp-pd tlp-rdw

Version 1.8 and older

sudo zypper install tlp tlp-rdw

openSUSE Leap 15.4 and newer as well as Tumbleweed

Uninstall the conflicting power-profiles-daemon package:

sudo zypper remove power-profiles-daemon

Service Units

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

sudo systemctl enable tlp.service

For version 1.9 and newer with tlp-pd, additionally:

sudo systemctl enable --now tlp-pd.service

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

sudo 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 the Sandy Bridge generation 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 the `Sandy Bridge` generation (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

sudo zypper install tp_smapi

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