Corsair fan control on Linux

[gardotd426]

9 hours ago, rakma said:

Am trying to install liquidctl with pip3 and receved this output runing pip3 install liquidctl 
 

 

Those aren't errors. It's just telling you that it's not installing the dependencies because they're already installed. Liquidctl should have still been installed, especially since there is no error message in your post stating otherwise. 

 

Run `sudo liquidctl initialize all` and see what happens. 

[gardotd426]

But yeah, Corsair devices definitely can be controlled on Linux now, both fan speed and RGB, through some combination of ckb-next (for keyboards like my K70 RGB MK.2), liquidctl for fan/pump speeds (and RGB control for some devices), and OpenRGB for RGB control. 

 

Honestly the bad information on Linux given in this thread and elsewhere in this forum category is kind of disheartening, sure there's no first-party RGB software to speak of, but why the hell would we want that? All the countless bloated RGB programs you have to install on Windows is one of the biggest thing people here complain about on Windows. Much better to have 2 or 3 programs (or even just 1) that can control all your devices, and are also open source. I have RGB everything. Motherboard (the motherboard itself has lighting), ARGB fans plugged into the header on the motherboard, AIO cooler (NZXT Kraken X63), RAM (Trident Z RGB), and keyboard. And I can control EVERY single bit of it in Linux with OpenRGB, ckb-next and liquidctl. That's much better than having iCue, the ASRock motherboard utility, Aura Sync, NZXT CAM and whatever the hell else installed on Windows to control the same shit. 

[rakma]

On 2/1/2021 at 12:02 AM, gardotd426 said:

Those aren't errors. It's just telling you that it's not installing the dependencies because they're already installed. Liquidctl should have still been installed, especially since there is no error message in your post stating otherwise. 

 

Run `sudo liquidctl initialize all` and see what happens. 

Cant run liquidctl initialize all i get sudo: liquidctl: command not found. Without sudo i get this permissions error
 

ERROR: Error: insufficient permissions to access Corsair Hydro H100i v2
usb.core.USBError: [Errno 13] Access denied (insufficient permissions)

and with liquidctl list i only see my H100i, H115i Pro missing.

[gardotd426]

That makes no sense.. What distribution are you on?

 

Try running it with the full path, like:

 

 

sudo /usr/bin/liquidctl initialize all

 

Also, what's the output of:

 

lsusb -vt

 

[rakma]

12 hours ago, gardotd426 said:

That makes no sense.. What distribution are you on?

 

Try running it with the full path, like:

 

 

sudo /usr/bin/liquidctl initialize all

 

Also, what's the output of:

 

lsusb -vt

 

Distro : Pop!_OS 20.10 {groovy} | sudo: /usr/bin/liquidctl: command not found

which liquidctl

/home/naboo/.local/bin/liquidctl

 

lsusb.txt

[gardotd426]

Oh that explains a lot. Why the hell is it in ~/.local/bin???

 

If you followed the instructions on the liquidctl github, it definitely doesn't go to ~/.local/bin.

 

Anyway, now you can run it. 

 

sudo /home/naboo/.local/bin/liquidctl initialize all

 

[rakma]

On 2/7/2021 at 9:33 PM, gardotd426 said:

Oh that explains a lot. Why the hell is it in ~/.local/bin???

 

If you followed the instructions on the liquidctl github, it definitely doesn't go to ~/.local/bin.

 

Anyway, now you can run it. 

 

sudo /home/naboo/.local/bin/liquidctl initialize all

 

I removed it and installed GKraken works like a charm