asusctl & ROG Control Center

Limiting the charge to 80% significantly extends battery lifespan. The laptop runs normally on AC power regardless of this setting.

Set via CLI:

asusctl battery --charge-limit 80

Set via GUI: Open ROG Control Center (rog-control-center) → System Control → Battery Charge Limit.

Verify:

asusctl battery

This setting persists across reboots and is managed by asusd.

The Slash LED is the diagonal light bar on the lid of the G16. It supports multiple animations and can be configured to turn off on battery.

Show available animations:

asusctl slash --list

Available animations: Static, Bounce, Slash, Loading, BitStream, Transmission, Flow, Flux, Phantom, Spectrum, Hazard, Interfacing, Ramp, GameOver, Start, Buzzer

Recommended setup (AC only, off on battery and during sleep):

asusctl slash --enable -b false -s false

What these flags do:

• --enable: turn on the Slash LED
• -b false: disable on battery power
• -s false: disable during sleep

Set animation:

asusctl slash --mode Spectrum

Set brightness (0–255):

asusctl slash -l 128

asusctl provides three performance profiles that control CPU/GPU power limits and fan behavior:

Set a profile:

asusctl profile -P Balanced
asusctl profile -P Silent
asusctl profile -P Performance

Cycle through profiles:

asusctl profile --next

Check current profile:

asusctl profile

Note: Profile switching requires power-profiles-daemon to be running. See the installation steps above.

The GA605WV has a hybrid GPU setup: the AMD Radeon 890M (iGPU) drives the internal display, and the NVIDIA RTX 4060 (dGPU) handles GPU workloads.

GPU switching is managed via ROG Control Center (GUI) or asusctl armoury (CLI), both of which interface directly with the asus-armoury kernel driver (available since kernel 6.19).

Switch via GUI (ROG Control Center):

Open ROG Control Center (rog-control-center) and navigate to the GPU switching section to toggle between Hybrid and Integrated mode.

Switch via CLI (asusctl armoury):

Check current dGPU state:

asusctl armoury get dgpu_disable

Switch to iGPU-only (disable dGPU):

asusctl armoury set dgpu_disable 1

Switch to Hybrid (enable dGPU):

asusctl armoury set dgpu_disable 0

Note: A reboot or logout/login may be required after switching modes.

Important: nvidia-powerd.service must remain disabled and masked on this laptop. It conflicts with AMD ATPX power management and causes soft lockups and reboot hangs (black screen, backlights stay on). GPU power is managed via ATPX (via ACPI). See NVIDIA Driver Installation Guide for diagnosis details and commands.

Set keyboard backlight brightness (0–100):

asusctl led-brighter
asusctl led-dimmer

Open Aura configuration in ROG Control Center:

rog-control-center

Navigate to the “Keyboard Aura” section for animation, color, and per-key configuration.

Fan curves can be configured per performance profile in ROG Control Center or via CLI.

Open ROG Control Center:

rog-control-center

Navigate to “Fan Curves” to set temperature/speed curves per profile (Silent, Balanced, Performance).

CLI fan curve format:

# Show current fan curve data for a profile
asusctl fan-curve -m Balanced

# Set a custom curve (8 temperature/speed pairs: temp:speed,temp:speed,...)
asusctl fan-curve -m Balanced -D 30:0,40:10,50:30,60:50,70:70,80:85,90:100,100:100

Note: Fan curve customization requires the asus-armoury kernel driver. On kernel < 6.19, the driver is not available and curves set in the GUI may not persist as expected. See the Known Issues page for details.

GPU monitor (AMD + NVIDIA):

nvtop

CPU frequency, temperature, load dashboard:

s-tui

Power consumption per process/device:

sudo powertop

Hardware temperatures:

sensors

Check asusd service logs:

sudo journalctl -b -u asusd