You may find that OpenRGB is, on Linux, a complete and utter waste of time not worth bothering with. OpenRGB can, in theory, talk to RGB controllers over either the SMBus (i2c) interface or USB. OpenRGB controlling the RGB LED lights on a Gigabyte AX370 Gaming 5 motherboard. 3.4 Fans, Fan Controllers and LED Strips.You could also be lucky and get RGB control from a nice and simple GUI. You may find that it is, in practice, utterly useless software incapable of controlling anything. It can, in theory, talk to RGB controllers and make them work using a nice graphical interface. Getting RGB lights to work is a lot harder because it requires sending special messages to special controllers over either the SMBus or USB interfaces. The Linux kernel has good support for regular LED lights found on keyboards and laptops (the WLAN light, etc) and Linux users can control those by sending messages to /sys/. It is also possible that it will let you control RGB lights from a simple and easy to use graphical interface. Using it to control most of the RGB lights it supports on Linux requires compiling the Linux kernel with a special i2c-dev patch and there is a fair chance won't work even if you do that. OpenRGB is a graphical free software program that, in theory, lets you control RGB lights motherboards, graphics cards and other devices from the Linux and Windows operating systems.
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