--- title: ASUS Laptop Whisper Mode Support Being Worked On For Linux description: A patch series has been submitted to add ASUS Whisper Mode support to the ASUS Armoury Linux kernel driver. The feature, reverse-engineered from WMI device IDs... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/asus-laptop-whisper-mode-support-being-worked-on-for-linux-rkcnexofd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: ASUS Laptop Whisper Mode Support Being Worked On For Linux | daily.dev og:description: A patch series has been submitted to add ASUS Whisper Mode support to the ASUS Armoury Linux kernel driver. The feature, reverse-engineered from WMI device IDs... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/asus-laptop-whisper-mode-support-being-worked-on-for-linux-rkcnexofd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/rKCnexoFd.png og:image:alt: ASUS Laptop Whisper Mode Support Being Worked On For Linux og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # ASUS Laptop Whisper Mode Support Being Worked On For Linux **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A patch series has been submitted to add ASUS Whisper Mode support to the ASUS Armoury Linux kernel driver. The feature, reverse-engineered from WMI device IDs by the open-source community, allows ASUS laptop users on Linux to enable a quiet mode that reduces fan speed and CPU clock speed at the cost of performance. Three new sysfs attributes are introduced: whisper_mode for BIOS-level control, whisper_enable for dynamic runtime control, and whisper_status for reading the current state. These attributes are only exposed on laptops where WMI support is detected. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How do I enable ASUS Whisper Mode on Linux? A patch series submitted to the platform-driver-x86 mailing list adds Whisper Mode support to the ASUS Armoury Linux kernel driver, exposing sysfs attributes on supported ASUS laptops. Use whisper_mode to toggle BIOS-level Whisper Mode, whisper_enable for Dynamic Whisper runtime control, and whisper_status to read the current mode status. These attributes only appear when WMI support is detected on the laptop. _Track kernel driver changes like this ASUS Whisper Mode patch on daily.dev as Linux hardware support evolves._ ### What WMI attributes does the Linux ASUS Armoury driver expose for Whisper Mode? The driver exposes three sysfs attributes: whisper_mode for BIOS-level Whisper Mode control, whisper_enable for Dynamic Whisper run-time control, and whisper_status for reading the current Whisper Mode state. These were added after open-source contributors reverse engineered the WMI device IDs used by ASUS laptops to manage the feature, and they only appear when the corresponding WMI support is detected. _Laptop driver tinkerers follow sysfs and WMI developments like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [ASUS Armoury Driver Set To Be Introduced In Linux 6.19](https://daily.dev/posts/asus-armoury-driver-set-to-be-introduced-in-linux-6-19-pqc4gcpbk) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [ASUS Armoury Driver Supports A Few More Laptops With Linux 7.0](https://daily.dev/posts/asus-armoury-driver-supports-a-few-more-laptops-with-linux-7-0-0zstii7zw) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [ASUS Armoury Driver For Linux 6.19 Picks Up Support For More ASUS Laptops](https://daily.dev/posts/asus-armoury-driver-for-linux-6-19-picks-up-support-for-more-asus-laptops-rvv41cn0c) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [New Lenovo Fan Driver, More ASUS Motherboards With Sensor Monitoring For Linux 7.1](https://daily.dev/posts/new-lenovo-fan-driver-more-asus-motherboards-with-sensor-monitoring-for-linux-7-1-ragg3vvkt) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/asus-laptop-whisper-mode-support-being-worked-on-for-linux-rkcnexofd) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"ASUS Laptop Whisper Mode Support Being Worked On For Linux","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/asus-laptop-whisper-mode-support-being-worked-on-for-linux-rkcnexofd","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/asus-laptop-whisper-mode-support-being-worked-on-for-linux-rkcnexofd"},"datePublished":"2026-07-28T09:32:54.515Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T06:02:17.848Z","description":"A patch series has been submitted to add ASUS Whisper Mode support to the ASUS Armoury Linux kernel driver. 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