How to enable the turbo button on acer predator helios 300 in Ubuntu

I've just bought one of the eight different models of the Acer Predator Helios 300.

It has a turbo button which supposed to overclock CPUs upon being pressed.

Apparently without additional configuration it doesn't work in Ubuntu.

The laptop had windows initially, which I've replaced with Ubuntu 18.04.

How do I enable that hardware feature?

Solution 1:

I've just sent a patch to Linux kernel for supporting Turbo mode, but this takes some time to get merged, So I've created a temporary repository for this on my Github.

https://github.com/JafarAkhondali/acer-predator-turbo-and-rgb-keyboard-linux-module

simply run sudo ./install.sh and hope that turbo button could work fine.

If you are using 4-zone RGB model, then the repo supports dynamic coloring effect as well (more info is available in readme).

If the features worked for you, kindly make an issue on repo so I can add more info on readme.