Asus G14, installing asusctl
New to Bazzite and Linux, other than the Steam Deck.
Everything is EXTREMELY new, so much so that I'm not even familiar with the general terminal commands for system use.
The only guide I can find is the Asus Fedora guide and it doesn't seem to translate on how to repeat those install steps here.
What commands do I use? Is there documentation for familiarizing myself with Bazzite, from a 100% new perspective. I believe I need to learn how to add the proper sources or repositories and then the install commands to use.
Keyboard backlighting works but I'd like the RoG GUI, and get the Anime Matrix Lid working.
Next up after that is xone I believe, so I can get the Xbox dongle working.
Definitely feeling overwhelmed. I know it's not easy to have 30 years of Windows experience and not be lost with a new OS, so I get that it's a learning experience.
I suspect I'll post a lot lol.
Thanks!
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Which G14, the AMD one or the nvidia one?
Nvidia. RTX 2060. I used the Gnome Nvidia image and the GPU is working as it should be, as far as I can tell.
yeah, I think we're going to add it to the image so no one has to do it by hand any more
but we have to figure out a way to do that cleanly, but for sure asus gaming laptops should have the right tools on them. I have the all AMD G14 and I love it so much, heh
https://asus-linux.org/wiki/fedora-guide/
Is there a way to do these commands in Bazzite? I find that all the documentation I read for Bazzite is built off of knowledge I don't have.
I sort of gathered from somewhere else that the Bazzite install command is rpm-ostree install? Stuff like that... It's weird that I can't seem to find any documentation on how to actually use the OS as a newcomer, just a bunch of stuff about how it's built on things that don't mean anything to me.
Do you know if there are forums, or a subreddit, or anything that's specific to this OS so I can learn by reading posts and finding people using it?
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Linux guides and tools for ASUS Notebooks and Gaming Laptops
Instead of searching for guides on Bazzite, search for guides for Silverblue (GNOME) or Kinoite (KDE). The same principle of using rpm-ostree applies here.
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this will set you up
I'll give that a try. That's my post lol
Thank you
There’s a down line link to a Silverblue guide. https://asus-linux.org/wiki/fedora-silverblue-guide/
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Thank you. It seems like silverblue stuff is more appropriate to try and follow. With the release page mentioning it was based on ublue and Fedora technology, I had no idea. Another thing that's not clear for a newcomer without much knowledge yet. I'm used to taking the name of the OS and looking specifically for that to try and learn.
In the end, the Silverblue instructions got asusctl and the ROG Control Center installed and the other commands worked without issue but it just comes up with an error in the app.
I'll give things another go when I've had some sleep but spending days trying to get basics working is why I always end up going back to Windows with all its pros and cons. It's just really not friendly to try and learn. Linux seems like a whole lot of copy and paste without the posts ever explaining much.
I feel like I need to make a post of about 100 questions and post it on a Linux help forum to start to decrypt half of what anything means.
Ramble aside, thank you, just not having good impressions so far.
yes it's still early days for us
we're trying to have all of that out of the box but this method of producing and consuming linux is still pretty new, so the installation experience is terrible. We're trying to get help on that, just to set your expectations.
we can add all the asus stuff, shouldn't be too hard.
the project is trying to prove that doing it this way (crowd sourced fixes on an image) is sustainable
I just saw the announcement and thought it might be a great time to try Linux again as gaming has always been what killed it for me. I'm definitely grateful that options exist. If it doesn't work out with the G14, I might try it on my Deck. We'll see. I haven't given up yet but I basically didn't get anything working yesterday. If I can figure out the Asus and OpenRazer and mangohud stuff then it might end up being mostly useable for me. I will say, with Gnome extensions and Nvidia drivers being a part of the image, it was easy to have GPU switching and VRR enabled right away which I assumed was going to be a pain and was the opposite. That was a nice surprise.
And xone is up next too so I can use the dongle. I have hope in between bouts of frustration lol
xpadneo is included by default, xone breaks a ton of other controllers and had to be removed
mangohud is also included by default
OpenRazer isn't, but that's being looked into
As for the ASUS issue you're having, their help document says that means asusd daemon failed to start
might be able to pull logs to figure out why
Yeah, I knew xpadneo was included but the Bluetooth latency on Xbox controllers is pretty awful and I've used the wireless adapter to reduce this. I don't think the adapter is supported in xpadneo. I'll try again and see if I have any luck
@KyleGospo Sudo journalctl -b -u asusd
Return zero entries. Whatever is going wrong isn't being logged there, I guess.
I made a post on the Asus Linux Discord, hopefully I'll find some specific help there about the message
Somehow the asusd service wasn't able to be started. I reinstalled using rpm-ostree install asusctl (even though it was already done). After a reboot I could do systemctl start asusd and the ROG Command Center is working
That makes a lot more sense
Weird that it didn't install the first time you ran it though
Either way does that mean everything is working as it should?
It appears so. The ROG Center doesn't give me options for changing the anime matrix but it allows me to change fan profiles, and it's populated with info compared to before with just the error message. The GPU switching aspect of things installed and started fine the first time, so 🤷. The end result is that it's working at least lol