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Linux Gets A Reverse-Engineered Driver For ASUS ROG NVMe Enclosure RGB Lighting

([Hardware] 6 Hours Ago ASUS ROG Strix Arion)


If you are into RGB lighting, you can even find NVMe external enclosures these days with RGB LEDs like the ASUS ROG Strix Arion. Now thanks to reverse engineering there is a Linux driver for allowing the RGB lighting controls for the ASUS ROG Strix Arion NVMe enclosure.

Open-source developer Liang Haowen developed "leds-asus-aura-scsi" as a Linux driver now under review for enabling the RGB lighting controls on this external NVMe M.2 SSD enclosure. The enclosure is exposed as a plain USB mass storage device and works fine on Linux for typical functionality. The RGB lighting was discovered to be controllable by an ENE controller via vendor SCSI commands. There are four independently addressable LEDs on the hardware that can then be manipulated under Linux via the LEDs sysfs interface.

This driver was posted today to the [1]Linux kernel mailing list as a request for comments (RFC). It's also part of a broader effort going on for a shared ASUS Aura interface for Linux. We'll see if/when this RGB LED driver for the ASUS ROG Strix Arion NVMe enclosure makes it to the mainline kernel.

For those wondering, the ROG Strix Arion retails for around $52 USD on the likes of [2]Amazon (affiliate link) for this otherwise ordinary NVMe enclosure.



[1] https://lore.kernel.org/platform-driver-x86/202609012200.RFC0.lhw@gmail.com/

[2] https://amzn.to/45WK0q7


New Crime Identified: "Tech Rage"

HARRISBURG, IL -- The police department in this Illinois town has coined a
new term for a growing trend in crime: "tech rage". Tech rage shares many
similarities with another modern crime, "road rage", but instead of
affecting drivers, tech rage is experienced by disgruntled computer users.

The first documented case of tech rage involves a Microsoft salesman, Bob
Glutzfield, who convinced the local TV station to "upgrade" its computer
systems from Macintosh to Wintel. While the migration seemed successful at
first, the Blue Screen became more prevalent during the following months.

Then, in January, the entire computer system crashed in the middle of the
weather forecast during the 10 o'clock evening news. Viewers could plainly
see the Blue Screen of Death showing in the monitors behind James Roland,
the chief meteorologist. The instability of Windows 98 stretched Roland's
patience until he snapped last week and succumbed to tech rage.

Roland tracked down the Microsoft salesman and followed him one evening to
his apartment. The weatherman yelled at the bewildered Microserf, "You
[expletive]! Because of you, I'm the [expletive] laughing stock of Southern
Illinois!" and then proceeded to beat him up. Roland is currently out on
bond pending trial next month.