ASUS Linux Driver Gets Patches For RGB Keyboard Controls

[fluke]

To heck with colors. I would settle for functioning page up page down keys functioning on anASUS TUF 506U.

Hi, I'm the main dev of ASUS support. I'm a little surprised that these keys aren't working for you as the numpad page up/down emit standard key codes, so do the up/down arrow + fn combo on keuyboards with that.

[fluke]

Status update:

New version of the patches after review: https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/8/7/683

Also tablet mode for X-Flow: https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/8/7/690

And GPU fan for some TUF models: https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/8/8/8

[sammilucia]

sammilucia
Nice to meet you. You have started a great project. I predict a great future if you continue in your momentum.

i didn't start it, fluke did, i just try to help out 😊

[sammilucia]

To heck with colors. I would settle for functioning page up page down keys functioning on anASUS TUF 506U.

join the discord we can try to sort it out

[gemiller]

Sounded like a nice project to use with my Asus ROG laptop. So I downloaded all 800MB of the project, (yes, a lot of vendoring), and built it. 800MB is the size of a minimal gentoo install.

Then I looked for the man pages: None.

Then I tried the command line help (asusd -h): None.

Then I tried to start asusd, and failed.

This project requires systemd. Gentoo, thankfully, allows me to run without systemd.

I filed a bug report, but they are insistent that they could get it to work without systemd, but will not. Nor will they add man pages or CLI help. The project claims man pages are long obsolete.

My response: rm -R asusctl-4.4.0/

[sammilucia]

the source code is 20MB for the daemon, asusctl, and rog-gui. i've no idea what you've downloaded - maybe Rust, Cargo and devel libraries? we won't get away from Rust unfortunately, it's coming to the kernel 😊

there's the GitLab readme, asus-linux.org website, and a very active community of thousands of people in the Discord including the dev you can ask directly. no we don't have a man page, but there's a lot of help.

the correct command is

asusctl --help