Comment on This is a rant about ASUS and their RGB lighting software
orclev@lemmy.world 11 months agoSort of. While their crapware can reliably control all the LEDs in your system, I’ve found that the options in the BIOS only reliably control the actual motherboard. E.G. I’ve got mine setup to just turn all the LEDs off, but the RAM and GPU still default to a rainbow pattern. If I install their crapware and choose off as the mode everything turns off, not just the motherboard.
narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It controls the mainboard and everything connected to ASUS AURA RGB headers. Your RAM and GPU likely use a different (non-)standard.
orclev@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sure, but my point was the ASUS crapware seems to be able to control the RAM and GPU, while the ASUS BIOS doesn’t. It would be nice if you could get equivalent functionality from both, but I guess supporting the various different schemes in the BIOS is asking too much from such limited storage space. I installed OpenRGB as I hadn’t bothered to install the ASUS Aura software since my most recent reinstall and it seems to be able to handle everything on its own. Based on its output it looks like it’s using AMD SMBus to control the RAM and GPU, and the ASUS Aura USB driver for the motherboard, which is fascinating as AMD SMBus apparently exposes I2C devices, something I wasn’t aware it was capable of.