The Aura Sync controller for the motherboard resides on an auxiliary SMBus. For AMD systems, this SMBus is not initialised with the stock Linux kernel; to get it to work, you will need to patch your kernel. The patch follows for Linux kernel 4.20 (derived from https://gitlab.com/CalcProgrammer1/KeyboardVisualizer/issues/85#note_121577579): --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4.c 2019-01-09 01:23:06.197945763 +1100 +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4.c 2019-01-09 01:24:58.007942622 +1100 @@ -964,6 +964,11 @@ retval = piix4_setup_sb800(dev, id, 1); } + if (dev->vendor == PCI_VENDOR_ID_AMD && + dev->device == PCI_DEVICE_ID_AMD_KERNCZ_SMBUS) { + retval = piix4_setup_sb800(dev, id, 1); + } + if (retval > 0) { /* Try to add the aux adapter if it exists, * piix4_add_adapter will clean up if this fails */