Predator PH315-52 — I’ve encountered some issues across different distros.

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1. Exodia OS (tested both live and bare-metal installations):

   • The app successfully identifies the keyboard, allowing color changes and other features.
   • However, I couldn’t control the fans.
   • The Turbo Button didn’t work even with a clean installation of Exodia OS.
   • Additionally, after uninstalling and reinstalling the exodia-predator-apps package, the app stopped working entirely.

2. Arch Linux (clean installation):

   • The app didn’t work at all—no control over keyboard RGB lights or fans.
   • The Turbo Button didn’t work.

3. CachyOS (current system):

   • The results are identical to Arch Linux—unable to control the keyboard RGB lights or the fans.
   • The Turbo Button didn’t work.

I couldn’t find the acer-wmi module in my system, which is part of the Linux kernel. The kernels I’m currently using are 6.12.0-1-cachyos-bore-lto and 6.12.0-1-cachyos.

System Information

Below is the output of sudo dmidecode | grep "Product Name" -B 2 -A 4:

System Information
	Manufacturer: Acer
	Product Name: Predator PH315-52
	Version: V1.12
	Serial Number: NBQ5(...)501
	UUID: 7e86e217-c0b0-4596-8a6c-5e27480cdd24
	Wake-up Type: Power Switch

Base Board Information
	Manufacturer: CFL
	Product Name: Covini_CFS
	Version: V1.12
	Serial Number: NBQ5(...)501
	Asset Tag: Type2 - Board Asset Tag
	Features:

Additional Details

• Count of keyboard RGB zones: 4
• Count of CPU fans: 1
• Count of GPU fans: 1
• RGB keyboard works? No
• Turbo button turns on fans? No
• Turbo button turns on LED? No
• Turbo button activates overclock? No

edit: systemctl status turbo-fan.service output:

● turbo-fan.service - Enables turbo button
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/turbo-fan.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
     Active: active (exited) since Tue 2024-11-19 23:42:31 -03; 2h 41min ago
 Invocation: 9e2028c4021e49f9beb179152c948d55
    Process: 722 ExecStart=/bin/bash ./install.sh (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Main PID: 722 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Mem peak: 56.3M
        CPU: 845ms

nov 19 23:42:32 battlestation bash[975]: [    7.789564] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
nov 19 23:42:32 battlestation bash[975]: [    7.790233] Bluetooth: MGMT ver 1.23
nov 19 23:42:32 battlestation bash[975]: [    7.794646] NET: Registered PF_ALG protocol family
nov 19 23:42:32 battlestation bash[975]: [    7.874642] pcieport 0000:00:1d.4: AER: Correctable error message received from 0000:08:00.0
nov 19 23:42:32 battlestation bash[975]: [    7.874651] alx 0000:08:00.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Correctable, type=Data Link Layer, (Receiver ID)
nov 19 23:42:32 battlestation bash[975]: [    7.874653] alx 0000:08:00.0:   device [1969:e0b1] error status/mask=00000040/00002000
nov 19 23:42:32 battlestation bash[975]: [    7.874654] alx 0000:08:00.0:    [ 6] BadTLP
nov 19 23:42:32 battlestation bash[975]: [    8.080870] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Registered PHC clock: iwlwifi-PTP, with index: 0
nov 19 23:42:32 battlestation bash[975]: [    8.686884] acer_wmi: Acer Laptop WMI Extras unloaded
nov 19 23:42:32 battlestation bash[722]: [*] Done

Let me know if you need additional logs or details to troubleshoot this issue. Thanks in advance for your support!