HP OMEN/Victus Gaming Laptops Gaining Fan Control Assist Beneath Linux

With the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle, the HP-WMI driver is slated so as to add guide fan management help for HP Victus S-Series gaming laptops in addition to for some HP OMEN gaming laptops too.

A patch queued now into the x86 platform drivers’ “for-next” Git department introduces guide fan management help for the HP OMEN/Victus aptops. Along with the fan velocity management help is PWM reporting of the fan speeds through the HWMON interfaces. Useful for these utilizing these HP gaming laptops and wish to regulate the fan velocity for a quieter gaming expertise or go for a better fan velocity to assist permit for some extra thermal/efficiency headroom throughout your gaming classes.

This patch is what gives that guide fan management help for the open-source HP WMI driver and was examined on an HP Omen 16-wf1xxx laptop computer.

Beyond that patch noting some HP firmware challenges round fan management, a second patch is also queued up for fan keep-alive help to workaround the system’s problematic habits. The firmware on some HP laptops will mechanically revert to the “auto” fan velocity mode after a 120 second timeout window. So to permit the guide fan management help to persist on these HP laptops, a keep-alive mechanism is added through a kernel delayed workqueue to refresh the fan mode each 90 seconds.