Support for Asus Zephyrus G14 2024 (GA403UI)

flukejones / asusctl

Daemon and tools to control your ASUS ROG laptop. Supersedes rog-core.

https://asus-linux.org/

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Support for Asus Zephyrus G14 2024 (GA403UI) #21

Closed jschoubben closed 3 months ago

jschoubben commented 4 months ago

I would like to help out bringing support for the 2024 G14 model (GA403UI). I have little experience with Rust, but looking at the code, I think I'll manage.

My first main focus would be to add control for the newly added ledstrip on the back (which replaces the Animatrix if I'm not mistaken).

Looking at the rog-anime code, it seems like you communicate over USB using a specific Asus created protocol? My hardware coding experiences are pretty rudimentary. Would it be possible to point me in some direction on how one could tackle this problem? Maybe, the "Anime protocol" can even partly be re-used or act as a starting point.

If anyone else has already been looking into this, please let me know :)

Have a nice day!

jschoubben commented 4 months ago

I've managed to implement the following features for the Slash ledstrip:

Enable / Disable
Set brightness On a scale from [0-10] but it gets translated to [0-255]
Set interval Timeout between the slash effect
Set mode There are 15 or so modes which you can choose from. I haven't looked into custom effects because my main focus was to simply turn it off)

I'll now try to integrate it cleanly in the existing solution and submit a PR.

Since this could take some time, if anyone's interested, just give me a nudge.

laukkw commented 4 months ago

Hello, my device is a 2024 G14 GA403UV. I use linux-g14 with a kernel of 6.8.2. I have a problem with the sound. I would like to know if you have the same problem.

jschoubben commented 4 months ago

I do have the same issue, only the "tweeter"? is working if I understand correctly. So the bass and mid level speakers are not working in my setup. Since I always use headphones, this is not really an issue, but there's an article on the asus-linux.org website about it: https://asus-linux.org/guides/cirrus-amps/

Did you also try to control the Slash ledstrip already? I found it annoying as hell since I use my laptop at the office :)

laukkw commented 4 months ago

my laptop has linux and windows. When I turn off the windows light strip, the linux light strip will also turn off. I refer to the arch wiki for keyboard light settings and turned it off.