I built a new PC and it's a basically a small desk circus with a lot of RGB (yeh I'm into that somehow).
The RGB is pretty good out of the box, only the RAM is WAY too bright. It's: "Kingston FURY Beast RGB DDR5-6000"-RAM.
I've been using Win10 for a while again (I'm sorry in advance) and I used the app from Kingston to dim the light a bit and that was it.
Now back on Zorin I thought of doing the same with OpenRGB (https://openrgb.org/) which had some problems on my old PC. I installed the udev rules and launched the software (I used the app image from the website - maybe flatpak works differently?) and while trying to "read" the devices it got stuck on the ram and my whole system froze.
Had to hard reboot and now every time I start the program I almost immediately get a black screen and the system freezes. Basically unable to do anything with the program.
Before I installed the udev rules it seemed to start fine but obviously complained about them not being installed. I sadly didn't try if I could just dim the ram then but maybe that's an idea? Because it's the only thing I want from the program.
Or maybe there's a way to go into debug mode? I've read on some forum pages that Kingston ram often creates problems.
Maybe some of you got an idea? Would be really happy about any help. It's a minor inconvenience I know but if it's not fixable I'd rather buy different ram modules than living with a flashbang next to me.
Thank you very much!
Thank you for your answer!
I installed the 1.0rc1 .deb package now. Sadly with the same result. It starts reading the devices and then gives me a blackscreen with a hard reset as the only way out.
The OPENRGB dev's don't know what they are doing. They refuse to use a website forum, and only use Discord, thereby alienating half their user-base who arn't genz.
The APP will always be in a experimental state (0.9), cause they don't take development seriously. They have been stuck on the same version for years!
I used to hang out on their Discord for a year, till I realized they were complete waste of my time. They are not very helpful on there.
They tend to be rude, won't fix bugs reported to them, they blame the user for their problems. They expect every user to become a programmer overnight, using Wireshark, which is so no user intuitive in the least.
Their software has broken user's motherboards and individual components. They try hard to hide that fact, and when a user posts what their software did to their computer, they don't take no responsibility, to pay for a new mobo, or whatever got killed.
I still remember when a user got his brand new Nvidia 5090 GPU, went to use OPENRGB to change his GPU RGB, and it turned off his GPU lighting, bricked it! Other people have bricked their RAM stick RGB too.
I wish I could say nicer things about the OPENRGB project, but as long as the dev's don't take their software seriously, I can't take them seriously either. I recommend avoid their software.
Seems that it isn’t. Of course I had to buy the one brand that isn’t supported. Patriot would’ve been. And even cheaper than Kingston.
■■■■■■■■ it. Guess I need to get new RAM then. Or try to get used to the flashbang. We will see.
Thank you for your ideas tho. Could’ve come to me myself to check that first before opening a new thread.
I've stated elsewhere that RGB looks pretty but there is no point having it as you don't spend time looking at fairylights, the most part involves looking at your monitor. I have my RGB turned off in the BIOS. (Besides I have a CoolerMaster Silencio case which means you can't see anything!)
Yeah that whole discord support feels kind of shady and inefficient. I asked for help there too but it’s one big global chat and there have been 50+ messages since with no one answering.
Funny thing is I wouldn’t even use it if it weren’t for the brightness setting. But I guess I’ll just buy different ram without lighting then. Seems to be the better solution.
But thanks for the insights!
You’ve got a point with that. I like to have a nice looking setup (even tho nice is subjective and can be minimalistic too) and I enjoy the lighting.
But maybe I’ll just go with a simple build without much or any lighting next time.
In the Night came a Thought to my Mind: Is Your RAM RGB connected to a RGB Connector on Your Mainboard? If yes and Your BIOS has that, You could set up the RGB in Your BIOS. My Mainboard (Gigabyte Aorus B450i) offers that.
There is kfrgb on github that is specifically supposed to enable support for Kingston fury beast RAM in openrgb. However, the warnings do not sound very trustworthy. However, there are also posts from people for whom it has worked. But I think it is very risky.
It sadly isn't. I got an ASUS mainboard which has RGB control but it's only for the mainboards own RGB (and maybe ASUS Aura Sync one too, I'm not sure). I can't address any other hardware than that.
