ASUS Laptop Whisper Mode Support Being Worked On For Linux
ASUS laptops feature a Whisper Mode that reduces fan speed and CPU clock to keep the device cool and quiet. The open‑source ASUS Armoury Linux kernel driver is receiving patches to enable this mode on Linux. New sysfs attributes allow users to toggle and monitor Whisper Mode where supported.
- ▪Whisper Mode slows fan speed and lowers CPU clock to prioritize quiet operation over performance.
- ▪Reverse engineering identified the WMI device IDs needed to control Whisper Mode on ASUS laptops.
- ▪The patch series adds sysfs entries whisper_mode, whisper_enable, and whisper_status for BIOS‑level and runtime control.
- ▪These attributes are only added on ASUS laptops where WMI support is detected.
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ASUS Laptop Whisper Mode Support Being Worked On For Linux Written by Michael Larabel in Hardware on 28 July 2026 at 05:25 AM EDT. Add A Comment ASUS laptops support a feature called "Whisper Mode" that intentionally slows down the fan speed and lowers the CPU clock speed in order to keep the device running cool and quiet. The open-source ASUS Armoury Linux kernel driver is now seeing patches to properly support this Whisper Mode on Linux. Thanks to reverse engineering work by the open-source community, the WMI device IDs around Whisper Mode were figured out for enabling/disabling the Whisper Mode feature as well as figuring out its status.
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