Comment on This is a rant about ASUS and their RGB lighting software
narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 8 months agoIt controls the mainboard and everything connected to ASUS AURA RGB headers. Your RAM and GPU likely use a different (non-)standard.
Comment on This is a rant about ASUS and their RGB lighting software
narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 8 months agoIt controls the mainboard and everything connected to ASUS AURA RGB headers. Your RAM and GPU likely use a different (non-)standard.
orclev@lemmy.world 8 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.