Hey internet people, I’m looking at building a gaming PC based off of the GPU passthrough/VFIO/IOMMU guides Level1 has made because I desperately want to get away from Windows as my daily driver, but want to game with all the new stuff on Win10.
But here’s my big question: Lighting. If I’m going to drop this kind of coin on building a new rig, I want to go a bit further and work on the aesthetics. I’m worried, however, that the Asus Aura lighting, G.Skill RAM lighting, Corsair fan lighting, and NZXT AIO lighting won’t work with Linux. As I undestand it, all those lighting elements are controlled by software in win10, and I was only going to have win10 as a VM.
Are my fears correct? Will I not be able to use any of these lighting elements? I did some searching around and found a reddit thread about Aura and Linux where a guy had reverse engineered the Asus Aura protocol and made a github repository. I contacted him and asked about other protocols, but he said he hadn’t worked on any of those.
As far as I know, your fears are correct.
I’m in the same boat as you, so I have decided to start out with installing windows, to set the color I want, and then install Linux.
A set and forget approach.
G- skill ram is Aura compatible, and if you want to, it should be possible to pass through the corsair and nzxt lightning controllers to the VM, as they are usb devices.
But lightning control would still only be possible from the VM.
Imo, a bit to much work for lightning.
Something like a cablemod led strip with a remote will make controlling the lights easier
Hmmm, interesting. So you think it’s possible to set the colors once and have them persist despite different OSs? I would be ok with using my windows VM to change the colors, just as long as the settings stay where I put them when I turn off the VM. (I’m just looking to do a black chassis, blue light color theme, so I’d set and forget.
I think the hardware wil remember the color, but I’m not 100 % sure on all makes and models.
But as an example, when I turn on my current pc, the corsair AIO and evga gpu light up immidiatly with the colord I set, and thats before it has even posted.
When I have all the parts for my new build, I’d be happy to report back. It might take a little week, but it’s asus mobo and g-skill ram - so the same software is needed