I am on openSUSE Tumbleweed and I ran into a problem. Going to the battery icon, there is no bar to set the energy profiles (power saving, balanced and performance). However, a message appears saying to try to install the power-profiles-daemon package, but when I try to install it via zypper from the terminal it gives me the following error:
Problem: 1: tlp-1.6.1-1.3.noarch installed conflicts with 'power-profiles-daemon' provided by power-profiles-daemon-0.21-1.1.x86_64 to be installed
Solution 1: The indicated actions will be performed:
uninstalling tlp-1.6.1-1.3.noarch
uninstalling tlp-rdw-1.6.1-1.3.noarch
Solution 2: do not install power-profiles-daemon-0.21-1.1.x86_64
Choose from the previous solutions by number or undo [1/2/a/d/?] (a):
Which option should I choose? Will something break if I decide to uninstall tlp and therefore it is better to keep it? Will it conflict with anything?
This points to a desktop environment. But you failed to explain what DE is used.
Also, please do not only post the part of the output that you think is important. Always post complete, including the line with the prompt and the command. Only so can others see what you did and what you got exactly as you see it.
I see the same on Plasma 6 (no energy profiles on th battery systray icon). Seems like this is connected to the power profiles daemon, which collides with tlp.
TLP however is the default energy manager on openSUSE installations (if you stick with the defaults during the installation process) and a highly configurable energy management tool. If you are interested into tweaking it you can edit /etc/tlp.conf. There is a very detailed documentation here: Settings — TLP 1.6 documentation
You can also just let it run with default settings and do nothing. The defaults are set in a logic manner that probably fit the average needs.
I personally use tlp and not power-profiles-daemon.
For very simple settings regarding screen brightness behaviour and such you can also use the KDE settings section “energy saving mode” (free translation).
Up to you… you should use the tool you prefer, power profiles daemon or tlp.
Thank you very much, very satisfactory answer. If you tell me that it is all handled logically I will leave it as it is, without creating any conflicts or problems!
Hello again,
I was just looking into tlp for different reasons again and realized that on a standard openSUSE install (at least on tumbleweed) it is not enabled by default.
So, if you want to use it make sure that it is enabled.
To check:
Update:
I studied the TLP configuration file for a while and set some values to my liking and I must say that, at least for now, the computer responds well. I wanted to set it up to make it as balanced as possible, but in such a way that when the computer is connected to the AC, TLP prioritises performance when necessary. I hope I have done well and I hope I can be of help to someone.
Below are the values I have given (the configuration file can be found in /etc/tlp.conf):
After becoming better informed and discovering that the parameters “ondemand” and “schedutil” are not supported in my case, I made the following and final changes specific to my case: