Linux support

[0pcode]

On 12/17/2021 at 1:16 PM, 0pcode said:

Ugh, I just bought a bunch of Corsair stuff to build a computer (first build ever). I was naive and assumed that, surely, you can run this stuff with Linux. Fortunately I haven't opened any boxes yet and can probably return basically everything and look for parts that have Linux software.

Follow-up, I built my first PC ever instead of returning the stuff and I have a f-- RGB disco. Sigh. I haven't been able to get OpenRGB to work. I'll keep trying but it hangs (and I think it hangs when trying to scan the Vengeance RGB RAM, not sure though, but I might have to patch the kernel which i'm not excited about).

Anyway, this is a very sad state of affairs. I'd be willing to dual boot and run windows to set the lights to a constant color if they would retain that color through subsequent boots into Linux, but I'm not sure if that will work.

I think the fan controllers will "just work" well enough but I'm not sure because I haven't put the system under sustained load yet.

Anyway, I'm very disappointed to say the least, but I guess this is what you get when you want to run Linux and don't do your homework.

[chuck_strut]

I have purchased a few Corair products, h150i rgb, K77 and some ssd's.

I think anybody building a computer today would at some point use corair in some way or another.

Then icue has come along way to integrate other lighting software like aorus, aura, Mystic light and others.

However this is a ever growing list and not many people I know stick to one vendor. But we mixing and matching different manufactures picking Items that meet our budget and features. Then we try to hack all these things we bought to get a good lighting setup together with all these dis-parent parts we put together.

Then to top it off and why everyone is here , there is just about no Linux support for any of it.

There are a few GitHub projects but when are we going to start holding hardware vendors accountable.

We cannot be installing 6 different pieces of software and independently managing them for our peripherals.

So What I presuppose is that these manufactures get together make a software framework that will enable vendors to intergrate their hardware with this framework.

The vendor will add their model numbers and integrate with the framework that is already there so that they do not need to develop software from scratch.

Now you could add the plugin of your hardware device into the framework and control everything about the device from that framework.

- Lighting

- updates and security

- configuration

- define profiles at a device or framework level

- monitoring

This also extend to other devices so that they can work together.

This should include but not limited to

- Motherboards

- GPU's

- Keyboards

- Mice

- Headsets and other audio equipment.

- Cooling device like AIO's , Water pumps, fans.

- Monitors , Cameras , Stream Decks.

 

This must be made available on Windows and Linux no compromize.

It must be open to all vendors, and all vendors need to contribute to the project financially and security.

This will save them time and money not having to create and maintain their own software.

Less frustrating to customers of all products.

This must not be an electron application.

Users should also be able to share their customization's.

[SnoofAhhLoof]

I would just like some form of support on Debian based systems that would be greatly appreciated. A simple on/off for the LEDs would be an improvement. 

[calzakk]

Just want to add myself to this forum post because I too would love iCUE to be supported on Linux (Ubuntu, specifically). Doesn't have to be anything fancy, even a command-line app would be a good start.

[Alex21]

Yep the last day when I'm gonna buy Corsair products.
I have a lots of parts COOLING, RAM, CASE, FAN, MOUSE, POWER SUPPLY and don't have support on LINUX for ICUE this is not right on how big is the company.

I cannot set a back button on Corsair Scimitar PRO.

I know I'm nothing for your company but from today you have with one customer in minus

STOP BUYING THE PRODUCTS MAYBE THEY DO SOMETHING

[ArchBTW]

Created an account just to add my vote for this, despite how futile that appears to be.

For now, let's see if iCue in a Windows VM will work...

[ArchBTW]

Well, it doesn't work. There's plenty of flashy animations and overengineered frontend doodles though.

In lieu of OpenRGB, which will require me to maintain a patched kernel just for controlling RGB, I instead came up with a simpler "solution".

Edited January 9, 2022 by ArchBTW

[dogdays]

I really hope one day Corsair will give Linux users some software.  I mean come-on they have iCUE for mac, who the heck runs Corsair on mac???  However they have ported iCUE to them why not Linux??

I'm sure there is a very good reason, but I'm not sure anyone has heard it. 

Linux users are always excluded from support and it's left up to a community of volunteers to pick up their slack.  I just keep wondering what the major gripe is that big companies have against Linux users/developers?

[LeDoyen]

because they would have to develop a version for each distro? there would be windows, mac and ten linux versions.

[dogdays]

11 minutes ago, LeDoyen said:

because they would have to develop a version for each distro? there would be windows, mac and ten linux versions.

I understand there are a ton of flavors to choose from but I have seen companies only pack an rpm and deb.  Why not choose a few to start with?  Don't we have to start from some where to make a company better? 

[Hans Kilian]

I just wanted to say that Linux support is important to me.

I use my PCs both for work and gaming. My work is moving more and more to pure Linux and so is a lot of other people in IT. I have 4 PCs. 3 are Linux and one is dual-boot Linux/Windows. The only thing that's keeping me on Windows is gaming.

[Phen]

Linux needs support.   Especially with Proton gaining Steam (Pun of the microsecond), and easy anti cheat, presumably, allowing developers to toggle some build flags, and compile compatible binaries.  The numbers will be there.  Honestly, I have no actual plans to game on linux, but I do literally EVERYTHING not gaming on linux.  I have no way to turn off the HID buttons on my mouse and no EQ on my headset.  I can't even disable the RGB to save battery life on my headset. 

I get the reluctance, but little things like this is why we're all still paying $100 plus for windows, and not just downloading our favorite distro of linux, when we finish our builds.

Oh yea, this is 100% intuition based conjecture, but MS sounded quite inevitable when the announce Windows 11.  In that, everyone not mac will buy us because we're windows, kind of way.  JMO, but usually things have a tendency to fall flat on their face, when such certainty of success is assumed. 

Windows is obviously still going to be dominating market share over the next decade, but Ubuntu and sub distros have made installing / running linux 100% as user friendly as windows, with a lot of advantages.  It's really only a matter of time, and word of mouth.

[blablabla]

I bought a new PC without OS because I have been using Linux for the past 15 years. The box contains your disco lights product and I was really disappointed to not have any mean to tune the effects. I have seen demo where the guy makes the lights color follow the components temperature, this is great. If you have a version for mac, it must not be that difficult to produce something for Linux. Supporting Debian and Fedora would probably be enough for the linux community to cover the other distros. Spoiler: since the world has smartphones, windows is not anymore the top OS, Linux is everywhere.

[LeftyF]

I just put 2 Corsair RGB fans and a Commander Core XT on my development server running Ubuntu 18.04. I was rather surprised when I saw that there is no Linux support. I'm mostly fine with the default settings, but it would be great to have a management console on this machine where I can check temps, etc. Please support Linux! If you don't want to support all distros, I imagine if you can manage the 2 top distros the community will take care of the rest.

My two pennines

PS - the cables that come with the Corsair 850W power supply are awful. I ended up ordering replacements for particularly the 24 pin CPU cable, where the PC end of the connector was warped, and required more pressure to connect to the MB than I was comfortable with. Also, the edges on these things are so sharp my fingers are still sore Today. If you have to wear leather work gloves to install your PSU cables there's something wrong...

[hydranmenace]

On 1/9/2022 at 12:48 AM, ArchBTW said:

Created an account just to add my vote for this, despite how futile that appears to be.

For now, let's see if iCue in a Windows VM will work...

I just tried passing my new Virtuoso SE's to Corsairs iCUE (or perhaps better: I-Curse-U-Everyone) on a windows 11 vm. Virtualbox shows both the wireless USB connection and wired if you plug them in directly. I passed them through the wired connection to check settings, change lighting, change the default EQ settings (terrible out of the box), and check firmware updates. Then I switch them to wireless mode to reconnect to Linux audio and the settings remained. I have not tried doing the same with my K70 LUX or M65 pro. However, CKB-Next seems to handle those without any issue. Maybe a slightly higher learning curve to how that works but it also seems more versatile. I definitely would like to see something official from Corsair, especially given as someone above mentioned, steam using an arch base for the steamdeck.

[solidus1983]

I agree, iCue needs to be available on Linux, you already have it on Mac OSX (Unix) shouldn't be too hard to port it over to debian/ubuntu, opensuse, arch and or fedora.

 

Moving to Pop OS myself as a secondary os, still will be using Windows for now until microsoft forces Windows 11 on me again then i am moving ship.

[phishen]

Adding to the long list of people who would love Linux support. There would probably be over $1000 of corsair products in my PC right now if Linux was supported.

[DepriSheep]

+1

[xcava86x]

This K95 platinum is the last thing I buy until I see full linux support. Idiotic me for not checking before. 

[makk50]

I would also like to see official support from corsair for us linux users, I have mostly corsa¡r products in my build (case, 7 fans, aio, cooling, 2 no commander pros headphones, keyboard and mouse )  and it would be great to have icue running on linux.

[digitaltrance]

Hello Corsair, will there be any iCue support for Linux? This would be ideal as most of my gear is Corsair.

If not supported, no point in having the corsair eco system.

[SpecificationIsEverything]

Another bump on this thread for Linux support. There are lots of us.

I still do find it odd that they do have iCue Mac support (aka OSx BSD which is much more Linux like).

[Breier]

+1 for Linux support.

I have a 4000X case, Vengeance RAM, 6 RGB Corsair FANs, and a Lighting Node Pro with RGB strips and more. And this information from Corsair helped me get out of the default rainbow when using Linux:

https://help.corsair.com/hc/en-us/articles/4997927877133-How-to-Set-up-hardware-lighting-in-iCUE

 

OpenRGB works for me, but it gets confused a lot and I have to set and reset every item many times. `modprobe i2c-dev` helps me get the RAM identified. But I rather just keep the hardware profiles from iCUE.

So the problem is actually the lack of synchronous lighting and customisation.

PS.: I also like the iCUE dashboard.

[S0litaire]

+1 for Linux support.

Their are a few Open Source Projects that try to control the RGB of Corsair Devices with varying success.

It should not be too hard for your Dev team(s) to take those Projects and get them fully working with all corsair devices.

[Andy AUSNZ]

I registered an account just so I can add my +1 to this for needing Linux support.....Fedora package for me is needed. Come on Corsair