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Harald Hope	2434d89d0c	New version, new man. Continuing the Memory info rollout started in 3.3.27. ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SPECIAL THANKS: 1. Thanks to linuxquestions.org Slackware forums for poking around a bit at the new Memory total logic. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN ISSUES: 1a. MEMORY: The memory total: has to be synthesized in some cases, based on some math and educated guessing. When these guesses fall outside of predetermined ranges, inxi will show note: est. to let the user know the total was synthesized and possibly incorrect. For detected virtual machines, inxi does not try to synthesize the total because a VM can have any amount of RAM assigned. If superuser, and -m used, shows the real total from dmidecode if any RAM was found. Not all systems have DMI RAM data however, or have dmidecode installed. Will fallback to sythetic method in that case, which is usually right. 1b. MEMORY: With the superuser /proc/iomem method, if on a VM and not using even GiB sized RAM ollocation, and -M is not triggered (which usually lets inxi know it's a VM), the total will get rounded up or down based on a set of rules. For example, 2.5 GiB real would become 3 GiB. I don't see any solution to this, either assume the /proc/iomem is right but needs rounding up, or assume the /sys block counts are right, or remove the feature. Shows note: est. in cases where the rounded total is greater than a dynamic factor difference from the internal total amount. 2. GENERAL/GRAPHICS: The problem of users showing up, requesting a feature, then not doing any work, research, supplying energy, interest, and dare I say, passion - nothing, expecting 'someone else' to do the work for them, continues, sadly, with the recent request for vulkan data for Graphics. This appears to be a problem more with the modern generation of free software users, I don't remember this type of attitude 20 years ago, but I did watch it as it started getting more common. Demotivating to be honest, but maybe one day someone will show up who actually cares enough to help get the features they want developed. While I am leaving that up as a low priority feature request, I am not personally interested in that feature, nor is anyone else I asked, and given how much raw data there is, and how difficult it is to parse, I'll just leave it as an existing issue which might get work in a few years time, or not, basically will require someone showing up who actually actively cares. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUGS: 1. DISK: total: used: report could have had wrong results for used:, like used being > total: because the filter lists were missing some file systems for exclusion. More of a fix than a bug, but users might see it as a bug. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXES: 1. INFO: get_gcc_data(): was showing same GCC version as main and alternate. Failed to filter out the discovered primary, that is. This is because usually name is gcc-11 but sometimes it's the whole version, like gcc-11.2.0, the full version string. This is the case in Slackware for example. 2. SHORT: MEMORY: BSD: did not show '%' for memory used percent, just the number. 3. DRIVES/PARTITIONS: PartitionItem::set_filters() added many more exclude types, that will help avoid both creating wrong disk used totals, and also not show label:/uuid: fields for filesystem types that don't have uuid/labels. There were a lot missing: encrypted, distributed, stackable, remote. Should clean up wrong disk used values in some cases. 4a. PARTITIONS: PartitionItem::set_filters(). Added a lot of file systems, many fuse, distributed, stackable types. 4b. PARTITIONS: Extended remote file system ID by fs, and added fuse fs for local mounts, like gvfs, mtp, ptp and many other variants, that's things like mounting apple partition, android, iphone, archives, etc. This should correct an entire class of source: ERR-102 outputs. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS: 1. BATTERY: Added 'power' to battery report. That's the amount of watts its using at that moment, so not super useful since it's running inxi at that moment. But the data was there, so might as well show it. Only for -Bxx since it will be so variable. Shows after the charge/condition item. 2. SYSTEM: DistroData: added Oracle id and system base. Added Springdale/PUIAS system base support. Note, unusually, Eurolinux, ScientificLinux 'just worked' re id and system base even though that had never been explicitly added. This is because their os-release file contains 'centos' string. 3. SYSTEM: DistroData: Added ubuntu mantic minotaur to ubuntu id matching table. This only really is used by Mint, but there you have it. Also added Debian 14 codename Forky. 4a. MEMORY: Add total RAM from one of following: * /sys/devices/system/memory (if it's available). This directory has to be compiled into kernel, so is not always present. This source has advantage of being user readable. If out of set bounds, shows note: est. to let user know it's an estimate. * If superuser and /proc/iomme, gets the total from /proc/iomem using some tricks and synthetic methods, which in general is pretty accurate, but when out of the bounds set, shows note: est. to let user know results are only estimates. This overrides /sys total. * If -m and dmidecode data found, uses the real RAM module total. For Linux and superuser. This overrides iomem and /sys totals. 4b. MEMORY: add iGPU RAM from /proc/iomem when detected. Requires sudo/root. 4c. MEMORY: using the real -m/RAM total for memory total when available, since that is the actual value we want, not the estimated stuff from /proc/iomem or /sys/devices/system. 5. RAM: added a long time oversight, lack of per array RAM installed size and occupied slots (modules). Those are now part of the Array line for each set of modules. Since total already shows in System RAM line above, the granular per array installed size total only shows if > 1 array is present, ie, almost never. 6. DRIVES: disk vendors, added more matches and vendors. We'll know the world is changing in a significant way when no new vendors appear for a while, but that's unlikely in the near term. 7. CPU: cpu_arch(), a few new ids added. 8. GRAPHICS: new amd, intel, nvidia ids, updates to driver version etc. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES: 1. SHORT: for Memory:, switched to using MiB/GiB/TiB, these numbers are just getting too big to be readable. This is also dynamic, if both used and available are the same unit, shows x/y [unit], otherwise shows x [unit]/y [unit]. 2. MEMORY: changed gpu: to igpu: to avoid confusing it with standalone gpu. Since only raspberry pi had gpu ram data before, almost nobody would have seen this in general anyway. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTATION: 1. MAN/OPTIONS: Updated for -Bxx, battery power now. 2. MAN: updated to better define where the System RAM: total:.. available etc come from, and what they refer to. Also added explanation in -m section about what the stuff is, and what the field names refer to. 2a. DOCS: docs/inxi-ram.txt added, and more info moved from inxi-data.txt and inxi-resources.txt. Goal is to remove both those files and move all their data, and any new data, into granular inxi-xxx.txt files. Also moved some RAM data from inx-unit-handling.txt to inxi-ram.txt. 2b. DOCS: docs/inxi-unit-handling.txt: updated with more ram / memory units, code, etc, to better fit with the concept of the inxi-unit-handling.txt doc. 2c. DOCS: docs/inxi-partitions.txt: updated, added more sources for partition file system types, cleaned up, more useful as a reference now. 2d. DOCS: docs/inxi-distros.txt: NEW, merged data from inxi-data.txt, inxi-resources.txt. Updated and added more info. 2e. DOCS: docs/inxi-tools-mapping.txt split off from inxi-tools.txt, makes it easier to find the mapping functions and features, which are hard to remember. Also updated and improved its usability. This is kind of a key document because it's hard to remember all the mapping tools internally, and this also connects those tools to their relevant granular inxi-xxx.txt docs. Not that it will help get helpers for these tedious tasks, but one can always dream, can't one? 3. DATA: data/graphics/ added for first vulkaninfo output file. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CODE: 1a. RAM: Fixed an irregularity, for RamItem, it used MiB as internal unit, this was silly because inxi uses KiB everywhere else. This correction was relatively easy to do, and allows the values to be used by other parts of inxi, like MemoryData. 1b. RAM: Added return of ram total for memory. 2a. INFO/RAM/PROCESSES: When MEMORY active, now uses row reference to create the fields. For INFO, now uses MemoryData::row() to generate the row fields instead of doing the logic in the info line generator. This simplifies the processing and allows for more granular control of output. 2b. INFO/RAM/PROCESSES: Added debugger switches --dbg 53 (show raw KiB/count values for /sys/devices/system/memory and /proc/iomem. Added --dbg 54, which shows per line size for iomem, in human readable units, and a final summary report of iomem and /sys data, this speeds up debugging. 2c. INFO/RAM/PROCESSES: Added --fake iomem, --fake sys-mem for debugging and testing. 3. MEMORY: MemoryData::short_data(): added so one tool generates output for all sources for short data. Easier to track and make consistent, and to make more granular and robust. 4. DRIVES/PARTITIONS: PartitionItem::partition_filters(), PartitionItem::fs_excludes(): refactored into PartitionItem::get_filters(), PartitionItem::set_filters(). Cleaned up, organized better, made comments much more useful. Goes with DOCS 2c updates. Now there's just one sub that does this filter/exclude work, which makes it easier to maintain long term. 5. GLOBAL: Used a trick I just learned, declaring variables in the bracket scope of a class, but not inside the package/class declaration. This makes it work like a static variable, which Perl 5.008 doesn't support. You have to use a sub inside the bracket scope to return the data outside that scope, but that is easy to do. 6. MACHINE: Added return of b_vm for VM detection in MEMORY. 7. SYSTEM: CompilerVersion: Failed to properly use references when passing $compiler around, not actually sure why it worked, but now is consistent.	2023-07-10 14:18:45 -07:00
Harald Hope	ed7049fcc1	Completion of the audio fixes and improvements of 3.3.26. Added less common ... sound servers like EsounD and aRts, and made state reports more accurate for ALSA. Major USB code and data upgrades/refactors. The USB changes prepare inxi for USB 4, and adds lanes and Si/IEC speeds to the report. It is important to determine what USB mode you are running in with 3.x and 4. These changes conform more closely to how the USB consortium wants USB speeds refered to. With more robust USB data, this data now appears in a similar form as pcie: data for Devices, -A, -E, -G, -N, and for -D drives, as usb: plus rev, speed, lanes, mode, with the -xx/-a options, like pcie. This has been a long standing oversight and weakness of inxi USB and Device data, but now the two are fully integrated, including for drives, which was quite tricky to get working. Added netpkg and Zenwalk support to packages and repos. Also added repos support for sbopkg and slpkg, and updated package tools for Slackware. And more distros added to system base feature, and a few more for main ID. Improved --recommends report quite a bit, now it's more granular for missing packages and package manager reports, and also fixed a long standing missing current shell + version issue. Added the final package manager type, pkgtool (Slackware), that will be supported, which makes for 4, which is enough. Note that other package managers can be added following the documentation instructions for packagers, but this is enough for out of the box pm handling. Fixed a long standing oddity with how free / /proc/meminfo report MemTotal vs the actual physical RAM. I believe this issue also showed with GPU assigned RAM, but now for all but short form, shows Memory/RAM: available: ... used: ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SPECIAL THANKS: 1. To the Slackware people at linuxquestions.org forums, who helped, again, on this audio feature, even finding current or not too old systems that use some of the new / old audio servers (EsoundD) running in the wild, which I never expected to see. And also for exposing some weak spots in the USB advanced logic, and helping with the sbopkg and slpkg repo logic and tools reports. 2. To the Manjaro forum users, for providing cases that show where inxi can be improved. The audio server/api issue, the current USB 3/4 upgrade, were initiated by threads pointing to things that could be improved in inxi. So I guess the real thanks are for using inxi enough to trigger cases that show where it's weak or can be better. Note that this requires that I follow roughly their forums, however I only look at threads that seem like they might be of general interest, or which suggest a possible weak spot in inxi, and I don't follow them consistently. More reliable is to file github issues, since I will always see those. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN ISSUES: 1. DesktopData: at one point, BunsenLabs Debian OpenBox had XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP set to XFCE, which it isn't, but inxi can't work around such hacks, plus I don't even know if Bunsen is around anymore anyway. 2. DesktopData: CODE 1 reminds us that the time to depend on x tools like xprop for anything re desktop/wm detections is fast drawing to a close, true Wayland will not have xprop, unless it's running on xwayland, which is not something that should be relied on. Maybe recheck Moksha/Enlightenment which depend on xprop for version detection. The list of xprop detected wm/desktops in get_env_xprop_misc_data() is almost all X only wm/desktops, so those should be safe unless one of them decides to work on a wayland comositor. 3. BSD: ongoing weaknesses in BSD data sources make maintaining feature parity impossible, but I am trying to get the BSD data as clean and consistent as possible. I wish this were not the case, but the fact is, /sys is expanding and creating excellent and reliable data sources with every major Linux kernel update, and so far nothing comparable has appeared in the BSDs. This is just reality, it's not a condemnation, but something like the /proc then /sys file systems are an excellent idea, well worth emulating. 4. For the RAM available/total clarification, there's a slight issue because free/meminfo show MemAvailable as Free for use RAM, but dmesg shows available meaning what was available to the system during boot, minus the reserved percentage. Since we needed one term, available to System offers the closest in terms of technical precision without being too verbose. Technically available in this context means: total physical minus 'kernel code' minus 'reserved'. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUGS: 1. CheckRecommends: See Fix 6b, more or less a bug, but really just a fix. 2. AUDIO: for USB devices, put extra data into row 0, no matter which row the USB device is. This led to the extra data for USB being assigned to the wrong row. Sigh. 3. OptionsHandler: When show{'ram'} was set, for bsd, set use{'bsd-raid'}, which makes both show raid and ram fail for BSD. Oops. User mode RAM data only seen in OpenBSD so far. This made loading $dboot{'ram'} fail, and any raid as well, sigh, unless -m was also tripped. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXES: 1. DistroData: typo for Arch base: was ctios, was supposed to be ctlos. 2a. DesktopData: found case where xprop -root not present (Void Linux), so xfce test failed. Split to new function dedicated to xfce detection that doesn't use xprop data. Also, XFCE is working on their Wayland version, which would in theory not even have xprop by default. Also, the base version number test for xfce depended on xprop, but xprop doesn't even have that xfce version data anymore, so just checking if xfce(4|5|)-panel exist and assigning primary version based on that test. 2b. DesktopData: Also see See CODE 1a,1b for further xprop and test fixes that could have led to false positive or negative test conditions for the items that used xprop tests. These tests are all xprop agnostic now, if it's there, they will use it, if not, do the best they can. 3. PackageData: fixed legacy dpkg-query, old version did not support -f shortcut for --showformat. This made dpkg package listing fail. 4a. GRAPHICS: Added legacy XFree86.0.log to X log path detection, that was an oversight. Also added legacy module syntax _drv.o (not _drv.so). This gets X driver data now for very old systems. 4b. GRAPHICS: fixed corner case where no x driver data, running as root, was not supposed to show 'note: X driver n/a' message, that was a holdover from before driver output was cleaned up and driver: N/A shows when no drivers at all found. Just forgot to remove it when doing recent updates in the driver section, maybe? 5. REPOS/PackageData: For netpkg Zenwalk Slackware systems, showed only slackpkg repo data, empty, and showed the Slackware pm, not netpkg for pm. See Enhancements 5, 6. 6. REPOS: removed slapt_get file /etc/slapt-get/pubring.kbx, that's not a repo file. Thanks chrisreturn for pointing that out. 7a. CheckRecommends: See also CODE 6. Fixed case where > 1 package manager is detected on system, now lists them one by one for detected, and shows package install options as well. Before only picked first detected, which could lead to wrong results for Missing Package lists. 7b. CheckRecommends: Fixed glitch, forgot to update the current shell/version when ShellData was refactored, this led to no current shell + version showing up in recommends core tools report. 8. RAM: fixed speed_mapper string match to allow for older syntaxes. This is as far as known OpenBSD only, from dboot data. Matches then converts PC2700 to PC-2700 which then allows for mapping. 9. RAM/PROCESSES/INFO/SHORT: Finally tracked down a long time oddity, where for example: RAM: total: 31.28 GiB does not match 32 GiB physical installed. This is because that is the total available after kernel and system reserved RAM is deducted, and in some cases, GPU allocated RAM. There are also corner cases where the listed amount can be less due to physical RAM damage, but that's uncommon. Added explanation of why it's different, and what available is referring to in man -m/--memory. Changed -m, -tm to show: System RAM: available: 31.28 GiB used 26.23 GiB (83.9%) and -I to show: Memory: available: 31.28 GiB used 26.23 GiB (83.9%) You can get the 'reserved' and 'kernel code' data from dmesg, but since Debian made that root/sudo tool, can't count on being able to parse that out of dmesg, plus you can never count no dmesg anyway since it can get overwritten by kernel oops or wonky device etc. inxi doesn't use dmesg data for Linux for this reason. ... [ 0.000000] Memory: 32784756K/33435864K available (10252K kernel code, 1243K rwdata, 3324K rodata, 1584K init, 2280K bss, 651108K reserved, 0K cma-reserved) Also removed Raspberry Pi video RAM added back in to total now that it's clear it's what is available. This may also make systems with GPU using system RAM more correct. 9. SENSORS: sensors /sys tried to create concatenated string with $unit $value but these are not necessarily defined, that needed to be protected with defined tests. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS: 1a. AUDIO: JACK: added helper nsmd (new session manager), and its recommended gui agordejo. That's the drop in replacement for non-session-manager, the dev of which apparently lost interest in that project. But the ID method will work fine for for either, since both ran as nsmd. 1b. AUDIO: PULSE: added pulseaudio-alsa plugin support for helpers. This is like pipewire-alsa plugin, just alsa config file. Only seen in Arch Linux so far, but if others use similar paths for the glob pattern, they will also work fine. Also added pulseaudio-esound-compat plugin, which is easier to detect with /usr/bin/esdcompat. Also added paman, pulseaudio manager. 1c. AUDIO: ESOUND,ARTS: added legacy esd (EsounD aka: Enlightened Sound Daemon) and aRts sound server support, with basic help/tools. These are quite old, but are still occasionally seen in the wild on newer systems, surprisingly enough. 1d. AUDIO: ALSA: added alsactl to alsa tools. Missed that one, it's an /sbin type utility. 1e. AUDIO: ALSA: First try at ALSA compiled in but inactive report, previously depended on active only state of the API. Now uses compiled in SND_ kernel switch using the /boot/config-[kernel] file, which is a big expensive parse but only will activate on Linux kernels with no /proc/asound present. This fallback fails if kernel config file not present: /boot/config-$(uname -r). 1f. AUDIO: OSS: added tool ossctl. 1g. AUDIO: NAS: added helper: audiooss which is an OSS compat layer. 2a. DistroData: added Arch base distros: ArchEX, Bridge Linux, Condres OS, Feliz, LiriOS, Magpie, Namib, Porteus, RevengeOS, SalientOS, VeltOS. None of these are verified. Some don't exist anymore. Source: https://www.slant.co/topics/7603/~arch-linux-based-distributions 2b. DistroData: added ubuntu lunar 23-4 release id. 2c. DistroData: added porteux, added porteux, zenwalk to slackware systembase 3. DesktopData/GRAPHICS: added Smithay Wayland compositor. Not verified. 4a. UsbData/UsbItem: added USB lanes (-Jxx) and mode (-Ja), to add more useful data about USB revision and mode names the USB group has created. Otherwise it's too difficult to try to explain it. Note that -Jxx lanes follows other inxi items that show PCIe lanes as an -xx item to try to keep it consistent. This also consolidates the bsd and linux data sources, see CODE 5. Note modes and lanes are Linux only because the revision number, lanes, and speed used to determine mode are only natively available in Linux as actual internal data values. If this changes BSD support will be added in the future. The BSD rev and speed data is synthesized completely by inxi using some string values, and thus is not reliable, which means that pretending inxi can get this granular with data that is not coming directly from the system itself is probably not a good idea. Following wikipedia mode names: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB4 These are the known possible combinations: rev: 1.0 mode: 1.0 lanes: 1 speed: 1.5 Mbps rev: 1.1 mode: 1.0 lanes: 1 speed: 1.5 Mbps rev: 1.1 mode: 1.1 lanes: 1 speed: 12 Mbps rev: 2.0 mode: 1.0 lanes: 1 speed: 1.5 Mbps rev: 2.0 mode: 1.1 lanes: 1 speed: 12 Mbps rev: 2.0 mode: 2.0 lanes: 1 speed: 480 Mbps rev: 2.1 mode: 2.0 lanes: 1 speed: 480 Mbps rev: 3.0 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 lanes: 1 speed: 5 Gbps rev: 3.0 mode: 3.2 gen-1x2 lanes: 2 speed: 10 Gbps rev: 3.1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 lanes: 1 speed: 5 Gbps rev: 3.1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x2 lanes: 2 speed: 10 Gbps rev: 3.1 mode: 3.2 gen-2x2 lanes: 2 speed: 20 Gbps [seen this case] rev: 3.2 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 lanes: 1 speed: 5 Gbps [wrong rev: seen this case] rev: 3.2 mode: 3.2 gen-1x2 lanes: 2 speed: 10 Gbps [wrong rev: possible case] rev: 3.2 mode: 3.2 gen-2x1 lanes: 1 speed: 10 Gbps rev: 3.2 mode: 3.2 gen-2x2 lanes: 2 speed: 20 Gbps rev: 3.2 mode: 4-v1 gen-3x2 lanes: 2 speed: 40 Gbps [not seen, but possible] rev: 4 mode: 4-v1 gen-2x1 lanes; 1 speed: 10 Gbps rev: 4 mode: 4-v1 gen-2x2 lanes: 2 speed: 20 Gbps rev: 4 mode: 4-v1 gen-3x1 lanes: 1 speed: 20 Gbps rev: 4 mode: 4-v2 gen-3x2 lanes: 2 speed: 40 Gbps rev: 4 mode: 4-v2 gen-4x1 lanes: 1 speed: 40 Gbps rev: 4 mode: 4-v2 gen-4x2 lanes: 2 speed: 80 Gbps rev: 4 mode: 4-v2 gen-4x3-asymmetric lanes: 3 up, 1 down speed:120 Gbps I believe 120Gbps takes the 2 lanes of tx/rx and converts 2 rx lanes to tx so the entire lane is dedicated to transmit. and the third lane is dedicated to rx. Includes error message for unknown usb 3/4 rev/speed match combos. These can be bad hardware self reporting or unknown other issues. 4b. USB: Added Si/IEC speeds (base 2, base 10). -Ja triggers extra IEC, base 2 Bytes (xxx [MG]iB/s). -Jx triggers basic standard Si xxx [MG]b/s base 10 bits. 5a. PackageData: added netpkg as package tool. This stores data in same location as slackpkg, but assume if exists directory /var/netpkg, then the system is using netpkg as pm, not slackpkg. 5b. PackageData: added Slackware sbopkg, sboui as tools for pkgtool and netpkg. 6a. REPOS: added netpkg (Zenwalk Slackware based pm) repo report. 6b. REPOS: added sbopkg basic repo report. This handles both value syntax types, as well as the ability of /root config file to overwrite /etc config repo. 6c. REPOS: added slpkg repo report. This handles their old and newer syntax. 7a. CheckRecommends: For Slackware users, added pkgtool missing package name, also will use netpkg so hopefully Zenwalk uses same package names. 7b. CheckRecommends: Added radeon to kernel modules checks. 8. AUDIO/BLUETOOTH/DRIVES/GRAPHICS/NETWORK: For USB, -[ADEGN]xx adds rev, speed, lanes. -[ADEGN]a adds mode. 9. RAM: Updated RAM PC DDR in speed_mapper(), which is as far as I know only used by OpenBSD, which allows for MT/s speeds as non-root user, which is nice. That list hadn't been updated in a long time, so filled out DDR 1-5 PCx-yyyy ids. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES: 1a. USB: For -Jxy1, speed is now a child of rev: parent. This goes along with mode: and lanes: being children of rev:. This follows how USB consortium wants to refer to USB revisions now: by speed, lanes, and modes, the latter being the technical term, the speed being the marketing term. 1b. USB: If no speed data found, show N/A. This should almost never happen except for very old Linux and rarely with BSD. 1c. USB: Device type is lower cased except for abbreviations (type-C, HID). This makes it more consistent as a value. 1d. USB: Show basic Si speed with -Jx, and adds new IEC speed with -Ja. 2. CheckRecommends: See ENHANCEMENT, CODE 6. Now showing row by row package managers and missing packages, by package manager(s). 3. DRIVES: Changed long standing redundant use of 'type': type: USB ... type: HDD to: type: USB ... tech: HDD 'tech:' means the technology used, HDD, SDD, and if we can ever figure out how to detect it, Hybrid Hard Drive (HHD), 4. AUDIO/BLUETOOTH/DRIVES/GRAPHIC/NETWORK: moved 'type: USB' pair to after driver for -A/-E/-G/-N, which allows it to be the parent of the new USB data block. Negative is it moves it a bit further back in the line. For Drives, it moves it from after /dev.. maj-min to after block-size, However, with -D/-Dx, it's last in the line, which is nice. This is the only way I could find to make it more consistent across all possible USB device/drive type reports. 5. INFO/RAM/PROCESSES: Changed -I: Memory: [total] used: to: Memory: available: [total] used: Changed -tm/-m to be consistent: Memory: RAM: total: .. used.. to: Memory: System RAM: available: ... used:.. This corrects a long standing inaccuracy where MemTotal is not actually the full system RAM, but is the RAM minus reserved stuff for system and kernel, and GPU memory in some cases. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTATION: 1a. DOCS: docs/inxi-audio.txt: ongoing updates, adding more information, more on helpers, detection methods, etc. 1b. DOCS: New: docs/inxi-usb.txt: USB info, update, added more, a work in progress. 1c. DOCS: docs/inxi-custom-recommends.txt: name in inxi comment did not match, and updated to new comment cleaned up syntax in example. Fixed inxi comment file name. 1d. DOCS: New: docs/inxi-unit-handling.txt: To document how inxi handles size/speed data internally, and ideally, to help integrate all those methods into one big tool one day, not spread across many area. 1e. DOCS: New: docs/inxi-repo-package-manager.txt: To start to document arcana and methods and commands and outputs for package managers. Since this is a late start, will take time to complete, but better late than never. 2a. MAN/OPTIONS: updated for USB -Jx, -Jxx, -Ja, adding lanes, mode, iec speed items. 2b. MAN/OPTIONS: fixed error which had USB speed as -Jxxx instead of -Jxx. Also then changed speed to be -Jx. 2c. MAN/OPTIONS: updated for repos for SBOPKG, SBOUI, SLPKG, and added SLAPT_GET, I'd forgotten that one. 2d. MAN/OPTIONS: updated for -xx[ADEGN] USB rev, speed, lanes; for -a[ADEGN] updated for USB mode. 2e. MAN/OPTIONS: updated for memory available/used changed. 3. MAN: fixed some inconsistent use of short/long form display in extra data options. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CODE: 1a. DesktopData: New function for xfce only detections, turns out xprop is not necessarily installed, Void Linux for example had failed ID. Old version required xprop to do the tests, which was not robust and failed in this case. Function: get_env_xfce_data(). Also made xprop data optional for all the xxx_xprop_data desktop tests, not just some of them. This will forward proof the desktops 1b. DesktopData: Fixed bad parens in test cases, was not correctly organized. if (a || b || (c || d) && e) was supposed to be: if (a || b || ((c || d) && e)) Odd how those types of glitches creep in, one fix is also to just make the lines break more reasonably so the conditions are easier to parse visually. 2a. DEBUGGER: Added /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 xorg conf file to debugger. 2b. DEBUGGER: audio_data(): added audio server versions to cover all known ones. 3. MemoryData: changed all $memory to array references, got rid of split : separators, which were clearly legacy items leftover from bash/gawk days. Also changed MemoryData::get('splits') to get('full') to reflect this change. This change should be transparent though it may introduce corner case undefined value situation but that should not happen since array values are defined first. 4. UsbData: Refactor of usb speed, rev, added lanes, mode. Refactored most of the bsd/linux rev/speed logic, merged some of bsd speed/rev into the new version_data() function, which loads all the data based on what is calling it. This helps consolidate the logic across usb data sources. 5a. GLOBAL: made functions/methods use same comment syntax for args: args: 0:...; 1:... always starting with 0, to match array index. Same syntax for return array index values. In some cases simply note a variable is passed by ref: args: $value passed by reference. 5b. GLOBAL: made all sub/functions/methods follow the same spacing syntax. This seems to be a good compromise for space/readability. Note that adding in these new lines added about 400 lines to the total length, plus the line breaks that were already there. Yes, inxi has a lot of sub routines! aka functions and sometimes aka methods. [empty line] [comments] sub [name] { Packages/classes now also all follow the same spacing rules: [empty line] [comments] { package [name]; [empty line] [comments] sub [name] { ... } } Internally, subs generally do not use any empty lines unless it makes sense to do so for some specific reason. 5c: GLOBAL: made start of sub comments be upper case, I have a bad habit of typing comments in lower case, easier to read if it's reads like a normal sentence. 6. CheckRecommends: refactored entire items logic, set global hash for test items. Made support > 1 detected package manager. 7. REPOS: cleaned up comments for package manager/repo blocks. 8. SENSORS: sensors_sys failed to reset to undefined $unit and $value, and also failed to test if they were defined before using them in concatenation.	2023-05-07 11:59:56 -07:00
Harald Hope	f22449a205	man fix	2023-03-28 14:54:49 -07:00
Harald Hope	5ee29fa022	Significant upgrade to sound server running detections, much more granular and ... hopefully more accurate, with more useful reporting values. Also added some nice useful audio api/server tool and info items. Packagers: this corrects possibly wrong or misleading audio server reports, particularly related to PulseAudio/PipeWire, which can lead to support issues and lack of clarity due to ambiguous or wrong reports about sound Servers present, active, or off. Upgrading your package is highly recommended. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SPECIAL THANKS: 1. Thanks to people like Chimera dev Daniel "q66" Kolesa for experimenting with non systemd (uses dinit/dinitctl), non GCC, non GNU linux, and for making early pre-alpha versions run in vm, and for being easy to test! Not so much because I personally want or care about or view as a positive skipping GNU tools or GCC in favor of clang and BSD tools, but more because these experiments help make the general overall Linux ecosystem more robust. Including inxi. 2. Thanks for the Manjaro people for noting this issue on their forums. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN ISSUES: 1a. AUDIO: jack_control and pw-cli won't run as root, exit with error. This forces back to fallback process present tests for active running state. 1b. AUDIO: pactl will start pipewire/pipewire-pulse/pulseaudio if stopped and not masked, so not using since that would make inxi alter the state of the system. 1c. AUDIO: pipewire-alsa, pulseaudio-jack depend on file exist globs, tested on Arch Linux, Debian base, but unknown if paths exist on other Linux pimary distros. Easy to add to globbing tests, but no going to check them all! 2. SERVICES: systemctl status [service] can fail if service loaded using --user which is a new one on me, not sure how to handle that. 3. It would be nice to get inxi issues like the sound server/api glitches handled by filing an issue on inxi github, and not to rely on my seeing a random distro forum post, which I only found by pure coincidence. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUGS: 1. AUDIO: See Fixes 3a,b,c. In some cases false report of pulseaudio and pipewire running: yes create unclear output and results, or misleading. Thanks to manjaro users to noticing this and mentioning it in a forum post. Note: it's much more effective to file issues on inxi github than to hope I will see a random forum post one day. 2. DEBUGGER: Bug in debugger, somewhere introduced '-- list' (instead of '--list') for bluetoothctl which made older systems hang when running the debugger. No idea when or how that space got introduced. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXES: 1. INFO: Compilers showed Compilers: gcc: N/A when clang/gcc not installed, this was not intended, but was a small glitch in main::get_gcc_data(), where it assigned undef as array contents when gcc not defined. This was exposed by Chimera, which uses clang, but would have happened any time gcc not installed on system. 2. SYSTEM: tiny fix, was getting ',' at end of kernel compiler version. 3a. AUDIO: For pipewire, made process detection test more robust, now excludes pipewire-pulse in case where that might be running without pipewire on/enabled. 3b. AUDIO: bigger fix, more robust tests for audio servers running for jack, pipewire, pulseaudio, these look for more explicit server tool reports. Certain not to be reliable always, and fail for superuser, will probably need more tweaking. Also notes for jack, pulse, pipewire if only positive detection found via ps aux: active (process) to avoid incorrect data, and root specific messages depending on situation. 3c. AUDIO: was testing for pactl to determine if pulseaudio installed, but found case where pactl could be installed without pulseaudio. Now tests for pulseaudio installed. 3d. AUDIO: weak fix for Linux OSS4 version, using /etc/oss4/version.dat file, which may or may not exist on all distros. 3e. AUDIO: alsa-oss compat can create /dev/sndstat file, which would then lead to positive OSS detection even if it's not present. This is corrected, and will not show if asound/version exists and no ossinfo. For linux, relying on ossinfo presence, which comes from oss4-base. 3f. AUDIO: Older ALSA /proc/asound/version had a date string in parentheses after the Driver Version, so now explicitly get the string after Version. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS: 1. REPOS: added support for /etc/apk/repositories.d/*.list, which works pretty much the same as /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list. This is to make Chimera apk repos show up, previously only supported /etc/apk/repositories file read. 2a. DistroData: Added Feren to distro system base. This was much trickier than it should be due to inconsistent use of os-release field names, but that's how it goes. 2b. DistroData: new Arch derived distro XeroLinux added to system base. I know, I know, it's a never-ending endeavor (get it?) since these pop up all the time, but might as well add them now and then as they appear. 3a. AUDIO: inxi now handles pipewire-pulse as top layer audio daemon, along with several other server/api helpers. Note that pw-jack does not appear to be a daemon, just a plugin, so shows 'plugin'. Extra sound server helpers added when discovered or requested. API: ALSA v: k5.19.0-16.2-liquorix-amd64 status: kernel-api Server-1: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: off (on pipewire-pulse) Server-2: PipeWire v: 0.3.65 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active 2: pw-jack type: plugin 3b. AUDIO: For -Aa, added tools: report. Currently supports these basic tools: alsa: alsamixer alsamixergui amixer jack: cadence jack_control jack_mixer qjackctl oss: dsbmixer mixer ossinfo ossmix ossxmix vmixctl nas: auctl auinfo pipewire: pw-cat pw-cli wpctl) [+pactl if pipewire-pulse and no pulseaudio pulse: pacat pactl pamix pamixer pavucontrol pulsemixer roar: roarcat roarctl sndiod: aucat midicat mixerctl sndioctl Note that inxi-perl/docs/inxi-audio.txt has lists of alternates or rejected helpers and tools, but we want to keep that output short and sane. 3c. AUDIO: For BSDs, if sndiod is detected, adds an API line for sndio. Note this may create 2 API lines for FreeBSD using OSS. 3d. AUDIO: Added basic support for roar sound server, NAS (Network Audio System). 4. CPU: new Intel and AMD cpu model matches for latest and future, Luna Lake, Zen 4c. 5. GRAPHICS: new nvidia current, AMD, and Intel GPU ids. 6. DRIVES: more disk vendors, ids! The list never stops, but sadly, so many are not identifiable. Check: inxi-perl/tools/lists/disks_unhandled to see if you can positively identify any of those. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES: 1a. AUDIO: Changed main API/Server running: to status: [status], that syntax is more able to handle different circumstances. 1b. AUDIO: With change to status:, now uses granular fixes above, and adds root notes if no active detections. 1c. AUDIO: Changed 'Sound API', 'Sound Server' to 'API', 'Server'. This avoids ambiguity with some types, it's the Audio section, and those are the APIs and Servers for that Audio section. Makes it match Graphics as well. and is shorter. 1d. AUDIO: Changed 'Sound Interface' for sndiod to 'Server', which is how it's listed, and for BSD, added API: sndio item. Also changed 'sndio' to 'sndiod' for the Server: item. 1e. AUDIO: Changed ALSA/BSD sndio to show: status: api since saying an api is running makes little sense, it's there or it's not there. OSS can be enabled or disabled so shows status: active/off for Linux, but kernel-api for BSDs. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTATION: 1a. MAN: Added note for helpers item: with: pipewire-pulse/pw-jack etc to -Axx. 1b. MAN: Added -Aa item for audio server tools. 2. OPTIONS: Updated for -Axx helpers, -Aa tools. 3. DOCS: Created inxi-perl/docs/inxi-audio.txt doc file. Too many odd factoids to forget about during this upgrade! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CODE: 1. REPOS: Moved %keys to %repo_keys and set it only once with set_repo_keys(), those big hash assigns per iteration are really expensive, now stores it globally in RepoItem and sets only once. 2. INFO: main::get_gcc_data() failed to handle case where there is no gcc at all installed, resulted in returning an array with content of 'undef', not an empty array as intended. This made the array not set test fail for Compilers, so gcc showed as N/A, which was not intended. 3. DistroData: changed internal lsb/osr $distro to $distro_lsb/$distro_osr, which lets inxi update the distro name during system base processing in cases where the data is redundant. Stupid hack, sigh, should not be necessary, but that's life, /etc/os-release was poorly designed so it leads to such confusions. 4a. AUDIO: Added --dbg 52 to output results of pw-cli. 4b. AUDIO: refactored sound_data, renamed, added {jack,pipewire,pulse}_status(), sound_helpers(), sound_tools() utilities. 5. DEBUGGER: added more pactl and pw-cli outputs, and pipewire-pulse, pipewire-jack --version. 6. main::get_driver_modules(): add space after ',' if total string > 40 characters to allow splitting very long unbroken strings of modules that otherwise would not break as expected.	2023-03-28 14:48:52 -07:00
Harald Hope	464cac2f1e	A small point release, various smaller items, ongoing updates to matching table ... features, bug fixes, but nothing major. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SPECIAL THANKS: 1. Thanks Umio-Yasuno in github issue #281 for actually being proactive and finding some Intel/AMD gpu device id lists. I wish more issues would be like that. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN ISSUES: 1. DEBUG: --debug-arg and --debug-arg-use must use the full format: --debug-arg="-GS", or else the command line eats the args, even if in quotes. The error handlers will then complain about no data supplied, and it will exit. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUGS: 1. GRAPHICS: An accidental 'and' instead of 'or' test (see Code 1) led to systems without gpu or dri graphics drivers not showing their xorg driver even when present. This was due to a mistake, and also due to how Perl handles || and && in sequence, which made this bug not show up until I tested on a system with xorg graphics driver, but without dri or gpu drivers. Virtually no modern hardware or operating systems would trip this condition, but older hardware and operating systems, which may not have gpu or dri drivers, might. And did, in my case. This is by the way why I try to test on old hardware at least now and then. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXES: 1. CODE: A poorly done attempt at optimization would have broken case insensitive pre-compiled regex with $pattern = qr/../ because you can't add /$pattern/i to precompiled pattern, but qr/.../i support only added perl 5.014. This should impact almost nobody, but it is/was a glitch. Basically qr/../ can only be used when no /i type modifier is required if supporting Perl less than 5.014. See inxi-perl/docs/optimization.txt section REGEX for more on this. Note that Perl already compares the values in the variable each iteration via a simple equality test, so the only real gain from using qr// is not having to do that equality test each iteration of a loop. 2. OUTPUT: Fixed a few small inner key name failures to use '-' instead of ' ' to separate key terms: 3. REPOS: Called urpm urpmq, which is the query tool, not the actual type. 4. GRAPHICS: Fixed some gpu_id.pl matching rules. Thanks Umio-Yasuno in github issue #281 for noticing that some of the matching rules were either wrong or not loose enough. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS: 1a. OPTIONS: Long time oversight, no option to test or do one time change of key: value separator string ':'. This goes along with existing config option SEP2_CONSOLE. Added --separator/--sep {character}. 1b. OPTIONS: Added synonym for --output: --export, and for --output-file: --export-file. 2a. GRAPHICS: New Intel gpu data source, from intel, finally. This let us add a lot more gpu ids. Thanks Umio-Yasuno in github issue #281 for finding these. 2b. GRAPHICS: New AMD data source, from github. This let me fill in some more, albeit not as accurately as previous sources, but added more so fine. Thanks Umio-Yasuno in github issue #281 for finding these. 3. CONFIG: In a first, took a feature from acxi, --config, and imported it into inxi! This shows active current configuration, by file. 4. CPU: updated, fine tuned amd cpu microarch ids. 5. DISKS: More disk vendors added. Not as many as usual, I think the high tech sanctions against China may be slowing the rate of new Chinese SSD/USB vendors. But still some new ones, as always. Not many new IDs for existing ones though, that is noteworthy. A few new data sources to help pinpoint vendor names found too, though those won't in general impact users, but can be used to determine if a string is in fact a company name. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES: 1. OUTPUT: Fix 2, -t 'started by:' key name changed to: started-by: -G 'direct render:' changed to 'direct-render:'. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTATION: 1a. MAN: there were a few <...> instead of [...] for required option arguments. Fixed those. 1b. MAN: also added --debug-id [string] since that is in general useful info. 1c. MAN: Added qualifiers about when xwayland: and compositor: items appear for default -Ga output. 1d. MAN: Typo in config path in man page, .conf/ should be .config/. 1e. MAN: for --output json/xml, added pointer to doc page on smxi.org, people being unable to grasp the output is getting tiresome. 1f. MAN: Added synonym for --output, --export. 2a. SMXI.ORG DOCS: added --output json/xml documentation page: https://smxi.org/docs/inxi-json-xml-output.htm - this is also linked to from the github wiki page, though of course nobody is going to read it, as well as from a few pages in smxi.org. 2b. Updated inxi-man,options,changelog.htm files. 3. CHANGELOG: Changed to use same format as acxi.changelog, leading topic id's in upper case, makes it easier to scan read and organize. 4a. DOCS: docs/inxi-cpu.txt - cleaned up, re-arranged a bit, added cpuid data explanation, and updated header on inxi-perl/data/cpu/microarch to better explain the way amd does ext fam / ext model, which are not the same, bizarrrely, very confusing. 4b. DOCS: New: docs/inxi-disks.txt. Split out from inxi-resources.txt, part of the ongoing to documentation modularization, slowly splitting out sub topics from inxi-data.txt and inxi-resources.txt. Note this is in general only done when I'm working on that specific feature. But slowly, surely. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CODE: 1. GRAPHICS: Test when no gpu drivers and no dri drivers but x drivers never showed x driver. Was supposed to be all || for tests: if (@$gpu_drivers || $graphics{'dri-drivers'} && @$x_drivers){ https://perldoc.perl.org/perlop. I believe this led to test 1 being false, test 2 being false, and since that left tests 2 and 3 needing to be true for the && logical and to be true. Since only one of the two was true, the last bit was seen as false. 2. GRAPHICS: Connected with 1, noticed that for some weird reason, I'd decided to assign the array ref for drivers like this: @$x_drivers = (a, b, c); when it was supposed to be: $x_drivers = [a,b,c]; This did not cause any issues, since they mean the same thing, but it was silly to write it that way. 3a. DEBUG: Added --debug-arg-use which allows testers to run a specific argument combination that may be causing issues. 3b. DEBUG: Also added more validation, to make sure arg for --debug-arg / --debug-arg-use start with - or -- followed by a letter. 4. START: Removed this code block from set_konvi_data. I had left this in place for a release or two to make sure no need for it was found, but it will never be used since it never worked in the first place. # my $config_cmd = ''; # there's no current kde 5 konvi config tool that we're aware of. Correct if changes. # This part may never have worked, but I don't have legacy data to determine. # The idea was to get inxi.conf files from konvi data stores, but that was never right. # if (main::check_program('kde4-config')){ # $config_cmd = 'kde4-config --path data'; # } # kde5-coinfig never existed, was replaced by $XDG_DATA_HOME in KDE # elsif (main::check_program('kde-config')){ # $config_cmd = 'kde-config --path data'; # } # elsif (main::check_program('qtpaths')){ # $config_cmd = 'qtpaths --paths GenericDataLocation'; # } # The section below is on request of Argonel from the Konversation developer team: # it sources config files like $HOME/.kde/share/apps/konversation/scripts/inxi.conf # if ($config_cmd){ # my @data = main::grabber("$config_cmd 2>/dev/null",':'); # Configs::set(\@data) if @data; # main::log_data('dump',"kde config \@data",\@data) if $b_log; # } 5. OPTIONS: in OptionsHandler::post_process(), reorganized the various run and exit triggers, help, configs, recommends, version, etc. All on top now.	2023-02-07 17:59:56 -08:00
Harald Hope	85f1720a93	A small point release, mainly to get some bug fixes, and a few minor issues, and ... some ongoing updates to various matching rule features like CPU, Disk Vendors, etc. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SPECIAL THANKS: 1. mrmazda, for continuing to poke around and finding oddities on occasion. 2. The various packagers, for continuing to package inxi. 3. Nothing else really comes to mind, so I'm thankful that no real issues popped up, and the ongoing attempt to stabilize and clean up the several year aggressive development cycle of code is proceeding quite well. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN ISSUES: 1. I'm currently getting no data samples from new server type CPU systems, Nvidia Grace, Ampere, both ARM V2 based. The ARM cpu arch logic hasn't been updated in many years since I have gotten no meaningful data, currently Raspberry Pi 4 is the latest ARM generation I've seen data for, and no ARM server type for many years. So support there is really not happening, and won't be until I start getting real datasets on those server systems. Nvidia uses Neoverse V2 ARM core, but I have no information on that yet. Also nothing from the Amazon CPU, new Marvell datacenter type CPUs. But that's not surprising.Also, nothing from the N1 (2019) or V1 Neoverse (2021) ARM CPU family even though those have now been out a while. A lot of the advanced CPU data should 'just work' because of the huge CPU refactor done recently, but some of the more advanced data, particularly cpu_arch type data, isn't going to be available until I get real data sets so I can see what's going on. No idea how CPUID might work for ARM cpus, for example. Objectively many of these datacenter/machine learning focused CPUs will never see a system inxi will run on, though most I suspect will be running GNU/Linux in some form, so inxi can in theory run on them, but those people all know what their systems are doing, so the need isn't particularly pressing of course. With this said, I did used to have more access to cutting edge server stuff, but that has largely dried up, particularly ARM based chips. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUGS: 1. Found while resolving Fix 2, it turns out > 1 X Screens would not have shown correctly due to failing to pass $j row counter by reference. This bug was introduced when the big Monitor updates were done, since you almost never see > 1 X Screens now, I never saw it until testing something for another reason. This led to > 1 Screen showing on the same line as the last monitor of the previous Screen. See also Fixes 2, 3, 4, and Code 1, 2, 3. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXES: 1. Changed Intel Saphire Rapids release data from 2021+ (what Intel had initially announced) to 2023+ (the actual release date). Not my fault!! They were too optimistic, inxi merely repeated their claims. 2. While trying to figure out extra Screen showing up, found a series of subtle issues with how X Screens are handled. Added in more robust test for if Screen ID has been added by xdpyinfo_data, and other weird corner cases that might cause strange results in Display Screen-x. Created check_screen() to allow for more granular and debugable testing. This forum post helped focus attention on this issue: https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/\ my-second-screen-is-not-working-after-installing-nvidia/33388 3. %monitors was not correctly assigned in xrandr screen fallback. 4. Set number of Screens found if no xdpyinfo or if xrandr found > xdpyinfo number of screens. 5. Added Zhaoxin match to Centaur match, might show up on cpu string. 6. OpenBSD's package manager was listed as pkg_info, but it's slightly more accurate to call it pkg_add. As far as I understand it, OpenBSD doesn't really have a 'package manager' per se, it has a suite of tools to manage packages. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS: 1. Added some Zhaoxin/Centaur IDs, unlikely to show up, but you never know. 2. Added m68k to X display driver list. This was just added to kernel as a full drm driver! Very legacy, but has users in vm, qemu, etc. 3. More disk vendors! I skipped updating this last time because, well, collecting the data is really boring, and slightly tedious, and really serves to simply remind that this is not the way towards a better world. Or are cheap SSDs the true path after all? I doubt it, but you never know. 4. New AMD, Nvidia gpu ids. 5. New Intel Cpu Microarch IDs. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES: 1. No changes to speak of, so I won't. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTATION: 1. Various ongoing updates to inxi-perl/docs. These are very slowly being pulled into a more useful form. Emphasis on slowly. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CODE: 1. In Graphics::xdpyinfo_data() and Graphics::xrandr_data() got rid of extra step, now just assign hash reference directly to push anonymous hash reference into array. Had used intermidiate variable assignement of hash ref, but that is pointless. 2. Added $fake{'xdpyinfo'}, hoping to get some debugger data to test weird extra 'Screen' seen with Endeavor user (see Fix 2, 3, Bug 1). 3. Also, instead of using \%monitors, which creates a reference to the last value of %monitors, used the correct and safer {%monitors}, which creates an anonymous reference of the value %monitors had at that moment. This is a subtle Perl error which is easy to make in cases where the hash or array reference is almsot never > 1 instance, such as > 1 X Screens. This should at least help resolve the repeated 'monitors' rows in the output in Fixes 2, 3, 4. 4. Added 'source' to $graphics{'screens'} to log where each detected screen came from, xdpyinfo or xrandr.	2022-12-10 16:04:04 -08:00
Harald Hope	029a331a06	This release fixes another very long standing bug, which I was not sure was an ... inxi or a Konversation bug, which made tracking it down very difficult. Special thanks to argonel of Konversation for helping solve this problem, or at least, for directing my attention towards the likely cause area, and away from wrong ideas. The bug was that inxi simply did not run in Konversation, it would exit with error when run with /cmd or /inxi via symbolic links. This may not seem like a huge deal to many of you, but the actual history of inxi was directly linked to user support in mainly Konversation, so this feature not working I have alwyas found extremely annoying, but I could never figure out why it wasn't workiing, and didn't really know where to start until Argonel helped narrow it down to a specific Konversation function in inxi. At which point tracking down the real bug was fairly easy. Since testing in IRC is always a key test point for inxi features and releases, not working in my main GUI IRC client forced me to use CLI clients like irssi, via /exec -o inxi. There was a secondary cause of failure, which was missing a key qdbus package, which made figuring this one out a two step process. So inxi is once again working in all areas, with no known significant failure areas beyond known issues that have no current solution, or which I don't feel like doing. But possibly more important, a goal I have had for a while now of doing long needed code refactors, bug fixes, without huge new code blocks or features adding new future fixes and bugs, has been slowly happening. This was quite important, because inxi's codebase and logic is so complex and large now that at some point, it required rest and cleanup and corrections, without continuously adding new code and logic, which would then trigger new fixes and bugs. In other words, the code is taking a long needed, and well deserved, breather, to recover after huge increases in the overall LOC and feature sets. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN ISSUES: 1. No known way to detect that the system might be Wayland for the Graphics:.. API: fixes, unless Xwayland is installed if the wayland protocol detections failed, which they often do in console. Not practical to look for all compositor variants on system to determine if it could be Wayland if not X or Xvesa, so that one will just be what it is, which is fine, definitely better than it was before. Note this is only an issue if in Console, no Display. Note that if inxi is run as root, Wayland data also usually fails, even in Display. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUGS: 1. Another corner case monitor position issue, applied fallback primary monitor rule when a primary monitor had already been located. This is corrected via a graphics global $b_primary which once set will disable this fallback feature. Objectively, the fallback feature should just be removed. The test is if that monitor is not primary, and if position is 0x0, then assume primary, without verifying no primary had been located yet. 2. A super old bug, in current konversation, was failing to trip the konvi detections, which then resulted in not stripping off the first two args in @ARGV, which then resulted in bad args being passed to inxi on konvi start, which then resulted in silent failing. Many thanks to argonel of #konversation for the patience to help me figure out what was going on with this bug. He's been a Konversation developer probably longer than I've been doing inxi. Cause was very tricky and subtle, the ps aux path for konvi had changed slightly, not the path, but the pattern, it used to be: konversation -session [sessin id] but it's changed to: konversation -qwindowtitle Konversation or just plain: konversation as line ending. This led to failure to find konvi running, which then made the konvi ids fail. Also, this would not work if the qdbus-qt5 package was not installed, or other distros might have that packaged differently. Because of these dual causes, I was simply unable to figure out what was going on for many years. I suspect this stopped working with KDE 5/QT 5, but I'm not sure. 3. Used wrong key names for some ZFS tests and fallbacks, those could have led to failures though very difficult to test and verify this. Also see fix 5, which of course also looks like a bug, acts like one, but was actually due to a new use of /dev/disk/by-partuuid for ZFS components in Ubuntu which inxi had not seen before. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXES: 1. Alternate ps IDs for appimage detection (try appimagelauncher), alternate paths for possible appimage storage locations (also try ~/.appimage/*). File names might be *.appimage or *.AppImage, probably other variants too. 2. Going along with Change 1, made tests more granular for missing graphics API type data. Also updated messages to be more correct and clear, in and out of display. This corrects an issue I'd seen but never resolved, which was on headless systems showing this message: Message: GL data unavailable in console. Try -G --display Now the tests are far more granular, and only show that if glxinfo is installed, and also shows specific messages if glxinfo not installed, but X/Xorg present, or, for Wayland, if Xwayland present. These all get their own specific messages now, and generally will also show which API is being used, or API: N/A if nothing is detected, as in the case of a headless system with no X, Wayland, etc. 3. Github issue #275 on of all things Microsoft WSL environment, has a small glitch with undefined display hz, but otherwise inxi seems to work in that environment, albeit missing many data types! 4. Made tests for konversation more robust, including test for $ENV{'PYTHONPATH'} containing konversation in path, which I believe will work for all new Konversations (KDE 5 and newer), and be much faster. The previous tests are now more robust and less prone to failure, and only activate when PYTHONPATH is not present with konversation string present as well. 5. Fix for ZFS using /dev/disk/by-partuuid for partition id in zfs, which can lead to wrong usable disk total size report, along with failure to show components. Thanks delanym, issue #276 for reporting this problem, which also exposed some harder to trigger bugs in ZFS (Bug 3). 6. Exposed by issue #276, case where line was wrapping value when value was too short visually to value: used: 34.4 GiB (4.5%) due to the 3 or more words trigger to enable wrapping of value, but noticed that if length of line was exactly max-width, not > or <, it might vanish. 7. Case where no X or GPU drivers found, but dri driver detected, was not showing, now does. 8. OpenRC is the init system in some cases, that is: readlink /sbin/init > /sbin/openrc-init, where /proc/1/comm == init. Was showing only as OpenRC rc type, which wasn't actually correct. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS: 1. New nvidia gpu product ids for Turing, Ampere, Lovelace, Hopper. New Intel GPU ids. 2. Added Zinc to systembase/distro, needs slightly special handling to get both names right. Also added Tuxedo, which could use existing methods. 3. Added dpkg tool nala, which is sort of a CLI front end for apt, zinc uses it, but it's also in Debian main package pool. Also deb-get, which is another zinc thing for package management. 4. Full support for dinit: version, dinitctl w/status in ServiceData 4. Added initial support for init systems: 31init (31 line C program, no --version), Hummingbird (unknown if -v/--version). 5. A few new CPU arch ids (new Intels). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES: 1. Going somewhat along with the change in Audio to call ALSA a Sound API instead of a sound server, changed key name OpenGL: to API: OpenGL in Graphics. Also for EGL wayland, calling that the api too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL This conforms more closely to how these things are defined. Note that once again, a value had been used as a key name, which almost always indicates a failure to understand something about the core tech. 2. Changed wrapping of values from 3 words or more to 3 or more words AND length > 24 characters. Saw example of: .... used: 28.45 GiB (4.5%) which isn't desirable. 3. Changed minimum wrap to 60 columns, the new wrapper features are working so well that if users want output that short, it will usually work fine, except of course for very long word strings like a kernel name or parameter. Note that this does not truncate long 'words' that might be wrapped, or going along with Change 2, long 'sentences' of 2 words, those will always appear on the same line regardless. For 'sentences' of 3 or more words, however, it goes word by word, so it could well wrap after the first word, and so on. Obviously, a 24 or fewer character value will never be wrapped, which was the intended correction of change 2. 4. Going with Fix 8, OpenRc is an init system when it owns /proc/1/comm, had not realized that /proc/1/comm == init can map to dinit, openrc as init. Now will only show OpenRc as rc: type if not init as well. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTATION: 1. Updates in man for Change 1. 2. Added to docs/inxi-graphics.txt good quote re EGL/GBM, as well as VBE/GOP for vesa. Trying to find docs where they actually say clearly it's an API is remarkably difficult. 3. Man page, added note about Konversation requiring qdbus-qt5 (Debian+), qt5-qttool (RHEL+/SUSE+), qt-tools (Arch+) for inxi to work inside it. Also updated smxi.org/docs/inxi-usage.txt to note requirements for Konversation use and setup. 4. Man, help, changed min width for -y/--width from 80 to 60. 5. docs/inxi-values.txt updated for --cygwin, --wsl fake OS type switches. Not technically the OS, more the environment, but close enough. 6. docs/inxi-init.txt updated for new init types. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CODE: 1. Refactored tools/gpu_ids.pl to correct and enhance some features. 2. Renamed functions and sections to better reflect that the display interface is an API, this makes stuff less odd internally, and makes the function/variable names correspond better to what the stuff really is. 3. Commented out kde konversation data source config collector, that logic looks like it never worked, and couldn't work, since it never actually located inxi.conf files, just paths to the data directories. 4. Expanded release.pl to handle acxi docs as well, makes it all consistent and a lot easier to do long term. 5. Fake --wsl WSL switch, not really used, but in case. 6. Changed $b_cygwin to $windows{'cygwin'} and added $windows{'wsl'}. 7. Added -WSL to debugger string generator once WSL type is detected. 8. Refactored init, runlevel functions get_init_data() (now InitData::get()), get_runlevel_data() (now InitData::get_runlevel()), get_runlevel_default() (now InitData::get_runlevel_default()) into one package/class: InitData. This should have been done a long time ago, to follow the general rule "if > 1 functions for a tool refactor it into a class/package" for when to create a package/class internally. 9. Completed gpu_ids.pl, now outputs the full hash set per item, so entire blocks can be copied/pasted over. Something of a pain to get comments included, which aren't strictly necessary in pinxi itself, but they do help read the hashes for gpu data.	2022-10-31 15:47:31 -07:00
Harald Hope	b6ac6026f2	Another big one, with a long time to-do item done! /sys based sensors data is ... now used as a fallback, with fully revised error messages to handle this new sensor data variant. Due to potential bugs this might create, this was left off of the 3.3.21 release, which needed to go out on a schedule, but there is plenty of time for 3.3.22 to be debugged. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN ISSUES: 1. inxi can't currently handle raw in[0-9] voltage sensor data from /sys/class/hwmon, that may get corrected, but I've honestly never seen a system that shows raw in[0-9] values as field names, so it's probably not very pressing, but it can happen. Similar that is to how default fanx and tempx field names are processed. 2. Currently only checking -Gx, -Nx device temp for bus IDs ending in .0, which is the primary PCI device. I think that's the only one that will have a temp, .1, which is a second device on the same hardware, doesn't have that data in tests. Saves some requests since it's a big glob of /sys. 3. Spiral Linux has no obvious way to determine that it is Spiral and not Debian 11 as base distro. No /etc/ files for distro ID contain anything for spiral, so leaving that one alone. 4. Can't get 100% reliable cpu level > v2 due to it not being a pure cpu flag based test, which is kind of sadly typical for the originators of this idea, but since the choice was dump the feature, or just use the note: check for > v2, opted for note: check. One wants to ask questions here, but honestly I already know the answer so why bother asking the question... The docs for this are awful, inadequate, incomplete. My strong suspicion is that this is NOT intended to be a distro-wide feature beyond v2 support minimum, but rather is for specific compile options for a package or daemon or server or whatever that can benefit from this type of fine-tuning. One thinks of Gentoo for example back when such fine-tunings could actually deliver noticeable differences in performance. A per system type feature that is, not a distro-wide feature. At least that's my initial feeling, but this is probably about all the time I will spend on it since inxi can't get it more accurate anyway. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUGS: 1. Bug in monitor position logic, the horizontal/vertical sorts were being done alphanumerically, leading to absurd results where 800 > 2560 or whatever. Basically all x / y positions less than 1000 would have forced the smaller number to be considered as the greatest value. Another corner case find by mrmazda. Thanks mrmazda! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXES: 1. Added i350bb sensor to network sensor type. 2. Small glitch with some scenarios with missing fan1 in sensors, showed fan1 0 rpm, but then showed fan 3: empty. That was a slight error in how undefined vs '' empty was treated. 3. Added fix for defective fan speeds, skip fan item if > 15000, which is a bug in the fan speed report, making it useless. Seen 65535 reported RPM. Could probably make it 10000 upper limit but suspect that is a simple bug that creates an absurd value, 2^16 so won't be anything high unless bug active. This fix runs for ipmi, linux, and sysctl fan data. 4. Trying for fix for dynamic gpu voltage, assumed always mV, but might be V. 5. Inadequate or obscure or non-existent redhat/suse documentation led to some fixes for cpu v levels. Note that level v3/v4 can't be fully determined by cpu flag tests, but who cares? Certainly not me. Added 'note: check' for v3/v4. 6. Nvidia device arch id was too loose, false id for non existing lovelace arch. Note that due to array reverse, the newest ids will always run first, which leads to possible false positives with first string match tests when no product IDs are available yet. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS: 1. Elbrus CPU arch, process, year, arch data made more complete using new data resource. Thanks Elbrus guys! 2. Finally, raw, basic /sys/class/hwmon temp data. Linux kernel docs note supports temp, fan, volts, amps, energy. But have only seen temps so far. Can force /sys use with --force sensors-sys / --sensors-sys, though there's no point to doing that except to test. Also changed --recommends to note lm-sensors not required for sensor data now. 3. Adding device temp for -Gx, -Nx. Will only work for Linux and when found, and only for free drivers (I think). 4. Added xdriinfo based dri drivers (with fallback to Xorg.0.log as data source, not as accurate), that will show if and only if that driver is not the same name as a detected X or gpu driver. 5. Another big upgrade to cp_cpu_arch, added and corrected many AMD/Intel matches. 6. A few more gpu product ids, Intel, added. 7. More disk vendors, ids, the list, as we are now well aware, is endless, reflecting perhaps the futility of pursuing the infinite using finite means. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES: 1. Slight changes in how inxi supplies no sensor data messages, and in the fallback cases and handling. More accurate and precise, and more robust overall. 2. Due to complexity of understanding level: and the fact not all cpu flags are exposed that are required, moved -Cxx level: to -Ca. 3. Changing slightly inaccurate Sound Server for ALSA/OSS to Sound API, which is the closest I can come to explaining clearly what it is. Note that you can only load one API type audio subsystem/driver, so you will be running one or the other, never both, from what I understand. Since OpenBSD sndio includes sndiod, calling that a sound server is basically fine, since it's both the server and the interface, if I understand it right, and there won't be a second sound server listed, actually won't be for any BSD that I know of, it's going to be sndio or OSS or nothing, unless something has changed. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTATION: 1. Man page, updates for /sys/class/hwmon based sensor data. 2. Small update for cpu level v3/v4, added note: check explanation, though it's too hard to really explain this stuff since the docs are... not wonderful, when they even exist and don't contradict each other. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CODE: 1. Refined significantly sensors missing data and error messages to be much more accurate and granular. Also enables more sensors tools, though hopefully they won't appear since those are a real pain to implement, but it's more open to being sensor tool agnostic now due to these refinements than before. 2. Added xdpiinfo to debugger. 3. Switched x_drivers to return ref of array of refs, use join for output only, that lets us use the drivers to test dri stuff also (if we want or need to), and keeps it consistent with how most of inxi does that type of data handling/testing. If undef, it means no array ref exists, which makes testing easy. Not truly understanding hash/array refs when inxi rewrite to Perl started is probably one of the bigger causes of glitches and ongoing optimizations. Basically, in all but very small array cases, it's almost always better to start with a ref from the start as soon as the hash/array moves between functions, with one exception, when it's a globally stored data item. Then it depends. But this requires a consistent testing for null data as well, which is harder if you did it in different ways from the start. But slowly and surely chipping away at these.	2022-10-07 19:43:17 -07:00
Harald Hope	915c7efa34	A small point release, some nice enhancements, a few bug fixes, and some fixes ... to correct or update some issues. Main new features: * -rx,-rxx,-ra/-Ix,-Ixx,-Ia: enhanced Packages: report * -Cxx: microarchitecture level. This is a relatively new convention, used to set various compile flags. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN ISSUES: 1. Can't safely look for pm tool KDE Discover because apt calls it plasma-discover, but other packaging systems call it discover, which is already a non-related program (hardware data). Since it's not really core to any package manager, it's not really a necessary thing to report anyway, though gnome-software is added because that appears to be more like syntaptic than anything else. There's also a qt variant of the rpm packagekit, packagekit-qt, which is available in for example Arch, but again, it's too granular, and not really core. 2. At some point, sensors should add /sys hwmon sensor data, then switch to using lm-sensors as a fallback, and remove one recommended tool from newer linux systems. I don't think that's too hard, just a bunch of little steps to integrate that into the main logic. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUGS: 1. For Slackware slackpkg/pkgtool: a: Failed to show package counts at all because of bad globbing path, forgot /*. b. Failed to show lib counts for packages due to having wrong counter for path. 2. If no ipmi sensor data was found but the tools are present, could result in an undefined hash reference error for sensors. The most likely cause for this is that one of the ipmi commands: "ipmi-tool sensors" or "ipmi-sensors" had an error, and since errors are sent to /dev/null, inxi saw null data, then returned an undefined value instead of the hash reference it was supposed to. This is the first time I've seen this happen with ipmi, but there have not been a lot of ipmi samples. Thanks issue poster #274 for having systems that triggered this scenario. 3. $source for ipmi was set to lm-sensors by accident. 4. For sensors, with > 1 sensor type, like lm-sensors + ipmi, sensor data from second sensor type was getting written to first sensor type row. See Fixes 9 for more sensors fixes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXES: 1. Force CPU bits to 64 if LM flag is present, if it reports as i686. This fix only runs for non RISC CPUs that show as 32 bit, so it won't run very often. If no LM found, remains 32 bit. This fix goes along with enhancement 1, which only applies to 64 bit CPUs. 2. In --recommends, JSON::PP module package names were wrong, they were copied from JSON::Cpanel::XS and hadn't been changed to the right package names. Note that for most distros, this is in Perl Core Modules, but not all. 3. Samsung ram vendor id was too tight, loosened it up a bit. Missed this one: K3LK7K70BM 4. With Bug 1, extended possible package manager tool detection for slackware type systems. Slackware is kind of unique in that it is not actually made out of a core package manager as a collection of packages, but uses package managers as a kind of layer on top of that, but none of those tools is required to run the system. 5. Found another corner case indentation glitch, was adding in level 2 on -I which is has no second level indentation. 6. Forgot to add $force{'pkg'} to -v8. 7. Small fix, if -Z is used, forgot to force --zl, --zu, --zv to false as well as -z. 8. Small fix, for saphire rapids, alder lake, added + to year built, since those are ongoing. 9. Sensors: a. in one case, with an array of fan speeds, set to '' instead of undef, which made test fail, and showed empty fan item. b. added wildcards for possible voltage/power matches, was too restrictive for ipmi sensors values. c. added better space regex for ipmi temps [\s_-]? d. DIMM voltage/temp excluded > 9 numbering, like DIMM 19 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS: 1. New feature: -Cxx shows for AMD / Intel 64 bit CPUs the microarchitecture level (v1,v2,v3,v4). v1 is baseline. GCC supports this I believe in latest versions, and some distros use it to determine CPU support levels for compile time optimizations. This was introduced in 2020 via a collaboration between AMD, Intel, SUSE, and Redhat. Now you know. This is a simple test based on which CPU flags/features are present. These levels can be used for Go language optimization (GOAMD64), GCC optimization switches (GCC -O2 for example), and probably more. 2. Expanded YMTC (Yangtze Memory) RAM vendor ids and detections. 3. Added [unverified] window managers CDE and NsCDE. No data, only using ps aux method. 4a. Added slax ID to distro id, added slax to system base support. Currently only work on slackware based 15.0, not debian based 11.4. 4b. Added SteamOS debian/arch for system base. 4c. Added os-release VERSION_CODENAME to enhance distro ID data (eg steamos) 5. Added to -ra/-Ia package tools installed report, this goes along with change 2, which changes apt to dpkg, the low level tool. Now with -a, shows the package manager tools installed, like slackpkg, apt, apt-get, dnf, yum, zypper, etc. rpm installed as secondary pm requires some further tests. Currently known pm that have tools (and rpm tests if detected): All these are known to support rpm secondary pm: * dpkg - Debian, Ubuntu, and apt-rpm based distros like PCLinuxOS, Alt Linux * pacman - Arch based distros * pkgtool - Slackware based distros * tce - TinyCore Linux 6. A few more pci product IDs for GPU matches. Slow going. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES: 1. Changed --pkg to --rpm, the original intention was that this could apply to more than RPM package manager, but that's the only one that it's used for. This leads to unclear output for other distributions where the user might have rpm installed alongside their standard package manager. 2. Changed package pm: 'apt' to 'dpkg', to go along with type rpm (suse,redhat) and pkgtool (slackware). Note that dpkg is the actual package manager of Debian, inxi had this wrong, apt interacts with dpkg. 3. Changed -h -a section, to follow after -x, -xx, -xxx, like on man page. 4. For rpm notes, after running some tests to determine whether to use rpm or not, will show the rpm note: see --rpm in pm: rpm note:... This allows for more granular errors which will be more useful to users. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTATION: 1. Docs were wrong for -ra/-Ia packages, from original when it package report was only an -a option, but it got moved to -rx, -rxx for basic features, and -a for advanced features. 2. Updated for --pkg/--rpm and --force rpm/pkg 3. See change 3, I think people tend to miss the sequence of -x, -xx, -xxx, -a because -a came before -x, -xx, -xxx in -h menu, but on man page, -a correctly comes after the -xxx options. Better to be consistent. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CODE: 1. Switched force{pkg} to force{package} internally, and added converts to change --force pkg/rpm to switch on $force{package}. 2. Refactored package PackageData to be more granular.	2022-08-22 17:55:45 -07:00
Harald Hope	a17d1b958a	man fix	2022-07-27 14:10:52 -07:00
Harald Hope	a980e17a18	man page fix	2022-07-27 14:03:40 -07:00
Harald Hope	ff81310652	A good bug fix, and several very good indentation fixes that had always been ... around, and some of them known. More fine tuning of CPU process/built data. Bit by bit it's getting filled out. Thanks again mrmazda for all the suggestions and watchful eyes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN ISSUES: 1. CPU built, process are not perfect and complete and always right. Like life, it's not perfect, but it is ok. Help complete the feature if it bothers you. 2. Intel Raptor Lake and related APUs are trickling out, but I have not found cpuid data for the cpu, or generation data for the apu. Was hoping to squeeze that into 3.3.20, but looks like it will have to go into 3.3.21 or later. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUGS: 1. MrMazda pointed this out, the printer was not correctly indenting long values in specific cases, not adding indentation level 1 when the key: value pair was not the last item on the logical line. Subtle, but could hit Device, OpenGL, and a few other cases. 2. When SMT is disabled, cpu speed from /sys can return <unknown>, which is a string, not the numeric value inxi expected. This trips multipe errors when speed cleaner is used. Thanks issue #273 reporter iamc for this one. My guess is all during all cpu testing, none of us thought to disable smt to see what would happen. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXES: 1. On disk vendors, Initio isn't a vendor, it's either a misconfigured ide hdd, slave/master wrong, or bad usb controller. Initio is a default controller, not a vendor. Added pre-filter in disk_vendor() to remove that string if it appears. 2. Going along with bug 1, finally fixed long standing weakness with long value wrapping, now continues to build line until it's done, and does not force a new line after the last long value item. 3. Another glitch where last key: value pair was less than working width, but total width was greater, was not wrapping correctly. 4. Saw a corner case Intel Core name: Core i7-1165G7 which did not use the expected intel (core number)(3 digits), modified to look for 3 digits after core numer OR 2 digits + letter + digit. 5. Added 'tar' installed test for debugger, found cases in actual distros that shipped without it in their minimal installs. Times sure have changed! 6. Another Centos type change, amazingly, this was shipped without lspci as well! No idea what went into the install ISO if this stuff didn't include the most elementary Linux tools. Added lspci missing error if linux and not risc and no pci_tool detected. I have to admit this is really surprising to me, I mean, I thought the entire purpose of the rhel family was to provide enterprise solutions, but to leave out such elementary tools required by every sys admin is very difficult to understand. This was centos 7.5. I believe Alma and Rocky 9 minimal have those basic tools, so that's an improvement, though they didn't have tar. 7. Added a '-' between gen and gen number for Intel GPU generation output. Even though it's documented as for example gen9.5, it looks odd to see it that way, it's easier to read it as gen-9.5 I think. 8. Did same for AMD arch/codes, for numbered arch/codes like Rage 9, easier to read as Rage-9. 9. Extreme corner case spotted by mrmazda, if KDE is started by TDE, inxi showed Trinity, not KDE-Plasma as the desktop. Further, it failed to show Trinity version, maybe because Trinity was not installed? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS: 1a. More or less completed verification of AMD cpu microarch/built/process, and added more accurate fallback cases for stray model IDs. * family 5h: K5, K6 * family 6h: K7 * family 7h: K8 - mostly done, needs some checks. * family 10h: K10 * family 11h: K11 Turion X2. Note there is some uncertainy about this family name. Built years n/a yet. Mix of K8/K10 * family 12h: K12 Fusion, K10 based, first APU type? 1b. Extended Intel cpu data a bit more as well. Thanks linuxdaddy from slackware for the research help there. * family 4: mostly new, fine tuned, granular * family 5: more granular, better date/process info. * family 6: built dates added * family F: corrected some overly specific stuff 2. Tentative support for finit init system (fast init). Runs in /proc/1/comm, uses initctl, which may have been revived from its upstart days, not sure. Added potential support for nosh, linux only, don't know how to detect other bsd init system. 3. Added amd/intel gpu product IDs. 4. Added shortcut --filter-all/--za, activates all filters: -z, --zl, --zu, --zv. Why not? 5. Added support for dm types kdmctl and xdmctl, opensuse and maybe redhat use the latter to start the actual dm running the desktop/wm. You want to see that because you need to do systemctl restart xdm to restart the actual dm. Thanks mrmazda for pointing out this one. 6. Added AlmaLinux, RockyLinux, CentosStream to system base (RHEL derived). 7. Basic Raptor Lake gpu/apu support added, with patterns to detect since few product ids yet. Same applies to Arctic and Alchemist, which still have no product IDs. 8. More disk vendors and disk vendor ids, never stops - the waters flow on, the rain falls, then the sun comes out. Until one day it doesn't. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES: 1. Deprecated --gpu, now it works the same as -Ga, that was too granular and nobody would use it I think. Now that the new gpu features are solid, no need for this special feature. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTATION: 1. Updated docs/inxi-values.txt, it didn't have all the --debug-xxx options listed. 2. Split out some BSD data into docs/inxi-bsd.txt. 3. Big update on docs/inxi-init.txt, moved data to it from other files, updated the init/service tool data. 4. Renamed init-data.txt to inxi-init.txt, renamed cpu-flags to inxi-cpu-flags.txt to be more consistent. 5. Updated help, man for new --filter-all option. 6. Updated help and man for --gpu deprecation. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CODE: 1. Moved required perl modules and system programs checks to check_required_items() in debugger, why not? Also added an error handler for missing required programs, this is really the only one, and only for --debug >= 20 This is the only required program test inxi has in it I believe, really amazing that such a core tool would be left out of an OS today. 2. Removed this redundant block of code from Network device_output() end section, that repeated in the main get() so didn't seem to serve any purpose. The test in get() is if n!@rows and if !%risc, same as here, so can't see any use for it. I'm leaving this here in case that did have some use, but I don't see it. if (!@$rows && !%risc){ my $key = 'Message'; my $type = 'pci-card-data'; if ($pci_tool && $alerts{$pci_tool}->{'action'} eq 'permissions'){ $type = 'pci-card-data-root'; } @$rows = ({ main::key($num++,0,1,$key) => main::message($type,'') }); }	2022-07-27 12:02:36 -07:00
Harald Hope	25b2d2edb9	This is a quick bug fix release, and one other fix, the bug only impact Debian/ ... Ubuntu distros. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN ISSUES: 1. Nothing new. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUGS: 1. Two repo_builders could create an undefined array ref situation, one in Antix I have no idea was triggered since it requires an apt file be not readable but existing, which just isn't a normal debian/ubuntu situation. Void linux was the other. Since those were the only two with a -r file test, there must be some case where the file was not readable, though I have no idea what that case might be. Further examination showed this can hit all apt based systems, the cause is no /etc/apt/sources.list file, which is a possible scenario across all apt systems. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXES: 1. Blacklisted all apcitz sensors that are not acpitz-virtual, which is the cpu temp. This may help resolve issues for some users where for example using acpitz-acpi, which is not the cpu sensor. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS: 1. A few more AMD family F empirical IDs made. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES: 1. None. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTATION: 1. Started to split/merge inxi-data.txt and inxi-resources.txt into topic specific files, like inxi-sensors.txt, inxi-graphics.txt, etc. inxi-values and inxi-resources have just gotten too big over the years. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CODE: 1. Corrected in RepoItem possible use of undefined array references. 2. Finally, a full releawse tool!! inxi-perl/tools/release.pl. Validates man, verifies pinxi commands to avoid errors, then updates man/options/changelog html pages for smxi.org/docs, and then syncs pinxi* files to inxi*.	2022-06-16 16:04:35 -07:00
Harald Hope	80522b55b1	Bug release, replace 3.3.17 asap, most users will not experience the bug, but if ... they do, inxi stops right before the -D line. Failed to do an if defined test on an array ref that could be undefined or an array ref. That makes Perl very unhappy! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN ISSUES: 1. AMD family F, K8 series, will need more granular treatments to get the data to be more accurate and less generic. We got 2 IDs nailed from raw visual data confirmations and cpuid values, which leaves many, but good start. We will chip away (pardon the pun) at these more ambiguous IDs over time, but don't need to get them all done instantly, just eventually. Thanks slackware person linuxdaddy for doing really good research and actually looking at the cpu to find dates etc. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUGS: 1. Bug, fatal, caused by internal hash/array ref refactor of 3.3.17. Thanks alaymari github issue #271 for reporting this one. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXES: 1. None except for code fixes to try to avoid the cause of the bug in Bugs 1. 2. Fixed nvidia eol try --gpu, it was showing backwards, with --gpu, not without, sigh. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS: 1. Added slimski dm data. That's a new fork of SLiM. Also guessing that brzdm has same version -v output: brzdm version x.xx -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES: 1. None -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTATION: 1. Refactors of core docs, ongoing, but will list those next release. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CODE: 1. Cleaned up some array ref handling in subs, returned as: ($var1,$var2) = @{block_data(...)}, skipped initializing and creating scalar to hold the ref, just use it directly for DiskItem::block_data(). 2. Also switched to local ref scalar array in DiskItem::scsi_data(), DiskItem::block_data(). Not set local array, set local array ref, to keep it clear. Also made DriveItem::drive_speed() return straight ref, not array then ref. Same for many other subs, switched to ref assignment so it's the same ref all through all the sub and return. 3. Fixed a redundant return \@$data to simply assinging to @$data ref, no return needed, in DiskItem::smartctl_data(). 4. Tightened some returns of ref so that tests if good test @$ref, not $ref. Trying to avoid more cases like issue #271. 5. Going along with array ref local/return, switched all hash refs to local hash ref returning ref, and working local with ref. More efficient, avoids creating new refs over and over, dugh. This made a particularly large difference in CPU because in certain parts, new references were being created over and over, and subs were returning like \@arr or \%hash instead of declaring to start: my $arr = []; my $hash = {}; Then working with the data from there on as an array or hash reference, to the same original reference, rather than creating new ones over and over, which Perl then has to track til they expire.	2022-06-13 16:32:32 -07:00
Harald Hope	35e8a95055	Rollout of advanced microarchitecture info continues, added AMD/Intel gfx ... devices, CPU built dates, process nodes, generation (in some cases, where it makes sense), etc. Please note: the 3.3.16 > 17 releases require manual matching table updates. If you think disk or ram vendor, CPU or GPU process, release date, generation, etc, information is not correct: * FIRST: do the research, confirm it's wrong, using wikichips, techpowerup, wikipedia links, but also be aware, sometimes these slightly contradict each- other, so research. Don't make me do all your work for you. * Show the relelevant data, like cpu model/stepping, to correct the issue, or model name string. * There are 4 main manually updated matching tables, which use either raw regex to generate the match based on the model name (ram, disk vendors), or vendor id matching (ram vendors), product id matching (gpu data), or cpu family / model / stepping id matching. Each of these has its own matching tool at: inxi-perl/tools/[tool-name].pl which is used to generate either raw data used by the functions (ids for gpu data), or which contains the master copy of the function used to generate the regex matches (cp_cpu_arch/set_ram_vendors/set_disk_vendors). * Please use pinxi and inxi-perl branch for this data, inxi is only released when next stable is done, all development is done in inxi-perl branch. All development for the data or functions these tools are made for occurs in the tools, not in pinxi, and those results are moved into pinxi from the tools. * Saying something "doesn't work" is not helpful, provide the required data for the feature that needs updating, or ideally, find the correct answer yourself and do the research and then provide the updated data for matching. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN ISSUES: 1. GPU/CPU process node sizes are marketing, not engineering, terms, but work-around is to list the fab too so you at least know which set of marketing terms you're dealing with. As of around 7nm, most of the fabs are not using nm in their names anymore, TSMC is using n7, Intel 7, for example. While these marketing terms do reflect changes from the previous process node, more efficient, faster, faster per watt, and so on, and these changes are often quite significant, 10-30%, or more, they do not reflect the size of the transistor gate like they used to up until about 350nm. Intel will move to A20 for the node after 4 or 5, 2nm, meaning 20 angstroms. Intel suggested million transistors per mm^2 as an objective measure (currently around 300+ million!! as of ~7nm), but TSMC didn't take them up on it. GlobalFoundries (GF) stepped away from these ultra small processes at around 14nm, so you won't see GF very often in the data. AMD spun off its chip fabs to GF aound 2009, so you don't see AMD as foundry after GF was formed. ATI always used TSMC so GPU data for AMD/ATI is I think all TSMC. Intel has always been its own foundry. 2. Wayland drops all its data and can't be detected if sudo or su is used to run inxi. That's unfortunate, but goes along with their dropping support for > 1 user, which was one of the points of wayland, same reason you can do desktop sharing or ssh desktop forwarding etc. This means inxi doesn't show wayland as Display protocol, it is just blank, if you use su, or sudo start. This makes some internal inxi wayland triggers then fail. Still looking to see if there is a fix or workaround for this. 3. In sensors, a new syntax for k10-pci temp, Tctl, which unfortunately is the only temp type present for AMD family 17h (zen) and newer cpus, but that is not an actual cpu temp, it's: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.12/hwmon/k10temp.html "Tctl is the processor temperature control value, used by the platform to control cooling systems. Tctl is a non-physical temperature on an arbitrary scale measured in degrees. It does _not_ represent an actual physical temperature like die or case temperature." Even worse, it replaced Tdie, which was, correctly, temp1_input, and, somewhat insanely, the non real cpu temp is now temp1_input, and if present, the real Tdie cpu temp is temp2_input. I don't know how to work around this problem. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUGS: 1. Fallback test for Intel cpu arch was not doing anything, used wrong variable name. 2. A very old bug, thanks mrmazda for spotting this one, runlevel in case of init 3 > init 5 showed 35, not 5. Doesn't show on systemd stuff often since it doesn't use runlevels in this way, but this bug has been around a really long time. 3. SensorItem::gpu_data was always logging its data, missing the if $b_log. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXES: 1. Fixed some disk vendor detection rules. 2. Failing to return default target for systemd/systemctl when no: /etc/systemd/system/default.target file exists. Corrected to use systemctl get-default as fallback if file doesn't exist. 3. Fixed indentation for default: runlevel, should be child of runlevel: / target: 4. Fixed corner case where systemd has no /proc/1/comm file but is still the init system. Added fallback check for /run/systemd/units, if that exists, safe to assume systemd is running init. 5. Fixed subtle case, -h/--recommends/--version/--version-short should not print to -y1 width, but rather to the original or modified widths >= 80 cols. Corrected this in print_basic() by using max-cols-basic. 6. Forgot to add --pkg, --edid, and --gpu to debugger run_self() tool. 7. Fixed broken sandisk vendor id. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS: 1. Added AMD and Intel GPU microarchitecture detections for -Gx. These are not as easy as Nvidia because there is no one reliable data source for product ids. 2. Going with the -Ga process: .. built: item, -Ca will show process: [node] and built: years and sometimes gen: if available. Geeky, sure, not always perfect, or correct, but will generally be close. Due to difficultly in finding reliable release > build end years for example, not all cpus have all this data. Using CPU generation,where that data is available and makes sense. Like AMD Zen+ is zen gen: 2, for example,. Because Intel microarch names are often marketing driven, not engineering, it's too difficult to assign gen consistently based only on model names. Shows for Core intels like: gen: core 3 That will cover most consumer Intel CPU users currently. 3. Added initial Zen 3+ and Zen 4 ids for cp_cpu_arch(). There is very little info on these yet, so I'm going on what may prove to be incomplete or wrong data. 4. Added GPU process, build years for -Ga. 5. Added fallback test for gpus that we don't have product IDs for yet because dbs have not been updated. Only used for cases where it's the newest gpu series and no prodoct IDs have been found. 6. Added AMD am386 support to cp_cpu_arch... ok ok, inxi takes 9 minutes to execute on that, but there you have it. 7. Added unverified Hyprland wayland compositor detection. 8. By request, added --version-short/--vs, which outputs version info in one line if used together with other options and if not short form. With any normal line option, will output version (date) info first line, without any other option, will output 1 line version info and exit. 9. More disk vendors, ids! Much easier with new tool disk_vendors.pl. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES: 1. Deprecated --nvidia/--nv in favor of more consistent --gpu, that's easier to work with multiple vendors for advanced gpu architecture. Note for non nvidia, --gpu only adds codename, if available and different from arch name. For nvidia, it adds a lot more data. 2. Changed inxi-perl/tools tool names to more clearly reflect what function they serve. 3. Going with runlevel fixes, changed 'runlevel:' to be 'target:' if systemd. Also changed incorrect 'target:' for 'default:'. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTATION: 1. Updated man, help, docs/inxi-data.txt for new gpu data and tools, and to indicate switch to more generic --gpu trigger for advanced gpu data, instead of the now deprecated --nvidia/--nv, which probably will go down as the shortest lasting option documented, though of course inxi always keeps legacy syntax working, behind the scenes, it's just removed from the -h and man page in favor of --gpu. Also updated to show AMD/Intel/Nvidia now, since the data now roughly works for all three main gpus. 2. Updated pinxi README.txt to reflect the tools and how to use them and what they are for. 3. --help, man, updated for target/runlevel, default: changes for init data. 4. Updated configuration html and man for --fake-data-dir. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CODE: 1. Upgraded tools/gpu_ids.pl to handle nvidia, intel, or amd data, added data files in tools/lists/ for amd. First changed name from ids.pl to gpu_ids.pl 2. New data files added for amd/intel pci ids, and a new tool to merge them and prep them for gpu_ids.pl -j amd|intel handling. All work. Took a while to get these things sorted, but don't want to get stuck in future with manual updates, it needs to be automated as much as possible, same as with disk_vendors.pl etc, if I'm going to try to maintain this over time. 3. Made all gpu data file names use consistent formats, and made disk data files also follow this format. 4. Changed raw_ids.pl to gpu_raw.pl, trying to keep things easy to remember and consistent here. 5. Refactored core gpu data logic, now all types use the same sub, and just assign various data depending on the type. 6. Changed vendors.pl name to disk_vendors.pl 7. Big redo of array/hash handling in OutputHandler, was partially by reference, now is completely by reference. All Items now use and return $rows array ref as well, from start to finish, unlike previously, where @rows was copied repeatedly. 8. Going along with 7, made most internal passing of hash/arrays use hash/array references instead, where it makes sense, and doesn't make the code harder to work with. 9. Refactored WeatherItem, split apart the parts from output to be more like normal Items in terms of error handling etc. 10. Added 'ref' return option for reader() and grabber(). Only useful for very large data sets, added also default 'arr' if no value is provided for that argument. 11. Switched some features to use grabber/reader by ref on the off chance that will dump some execution time. 12. A few places added qr/.../ precompiled regex, in simple form, for loops, maybe it helps a little. I don't know. 13. Added global $fake_data_dir, this can be changed via configuration item: FAKE_DATA_DIR or one time by --fake-data-dir. 14. Created data directory, and initial data items. cpu is the fake data used to test CPU info. More will be added as data is checked and sanitized.	2022-06-10 12:40:18 -07:00
Harald Hope	6023702097	A nice release, some good corner case bug and glitch fixes, along with some much ... needed documentation fixes to bring inxi-values.txt up to date for changes that have been evolving steadily. And a useful option for nvidia legacy card info. I'm hoping that will help support people and users as nvidia open source driver gets more usable in the future, since that will never support legacy cards, only the current series supported by 510/515 drivers. Also, in inxi-perl/tools, new tools and data so you can reproduce certain arcane data assembly features like disk vendors and nvidia product ids. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN ISSUES: 1. Not known yet if you can get Wayland display drivers along with kernel gpu drivers. In other words, is a similar use of kernel/display driver as in Xorg found with Wayland? Hard to dig up actual answers to questions like this. 2. Similarly, unknown if it's possible to get current active xorg display driver, not just the list from Xorg.0.log file. No idea how to discover that, there are cases where past use of Xorg leaves log file present, but drivers are not used with Wayland, leading to confusing driver reports. Issues 1 and 2 are similar but probably have similar solutions. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUGS: 1. Very subtle failure caused by odd mount point in partitions: a too loose regex rule designed to capture spaces in device names was running loose to the end of the string, where it was triggered by a number in the mount point. Fix was to make rule much more strict, now needs to match 3 number space in a row after the initial part, and then a number% 2. Bug in corner case, with Monitors, if > 2 connected monitors, and 1 disabled, inxi was trying to test numeric position values for the disabled monitor, which with xrandr, has no position values, thus tripping undefined pos-x and pos-y errors. Thanks to fourtysixandtwo for spotting this corner case. 3. Bug in wan IP, if dig failed, set_dowloader() is not set unless other parameters were used, which results in failing to set parameters for downloader, which leads to screen errors spraying out. Thanks to Manjaro user exaveal for posting this issue, with error outputs, which helped pinpoint the cause. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXES: 1. More absurd xorg port ID variations: DP-1 kernel, DP1-1 X driver. Wny? Trying to add in XX-?\d+-\d+ variation, which I think will be safe, made the first - optional, though it's just idiotic for this amount of randomness to be allowed to exist in the 21st century. If this reflects other discipline failures in Xorg, it starts to get somewhat more obvious why Wayland was considered as the only forward path, though that's just as chaotic and disorganized... but in different ways. 2. Removed darwin distro version detection, which of course broke, and using standard fallback for BSD made out of uname array bits. If it works, it works, if not, who cares. This should handle issue #267 hopefully. 3. Trying for more monitor matches, now in cases where 1 monitor display ID remained unmatched, and 1 sys kms id remains unused, assume the remaining nonitor ID is a match and overwrite the unmatched message for that ID. This will cover basically all single monitor match failure cases, and many multi monitor failures with only 1 out of x monitor ids unmatched. While guessing a bit, it's not a bad guess, and will slightly expand the number of matched monitor ids. This extends the previous guess where if single monitor and unmatched, use it to cover > 1 monitors, with 1 unmatched. 4. LINES_MAX configuration item did not assign to right variable when -1 value. Used non-existing $size{'output-block'} instead of correct $use{'output-block'} 5. Forgot to add pkg to --force, goes with --pkg. 6. Finally! Added in busybox shell detection, it's not of course reliable if they change internal light shells, but all the docs say they use ash, so now it will show shell: ash (busybox) to make it clear. Hurray!! This means that tinycore users will get this long awaited feature! Ok, ok, long awaited by probably only me, but since I package inxi for busybox, it was on my todo list. 7. Cleaned up and re-organized many disk vendor matching rules, made them easier to read and debug, going along with Code 3, vendors.pl development and release. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS: 1. New feature: in -Ga, if Nvidia card, shows last supported nvidia legacy series driver (like 304.xx), status, microarch. If --nvidia and EOL, shows last-supported: kernel: xorg: info. This should be useful for support people, we'll see. -Gx shows nvidia microarchitecture, if it was found. This is based on matching tables so will go out of date if you have non current inxi's, but that's life. If --nvidia or --nv shortcut is used instead, triggers -Ga and shows much more nvidia driver data for legacy, and for EOL drivers, last supported kernel, xorg, and last release version. --nvidia also adds process node if available. More important perhaps is the fact that as of May 2022, nvidia is starting the process of open sourcing its current latest driver (515, but Turning, Ampere architectures only so far), which will only support non legacy nvidia cards, making detection of legacy cards even more important to support people and end users, since that will be a common question support people will have: does my card support the open source driver?" Read about the new open sourcing of the 515 nvidia module: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-releases-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/ https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia-open-kernel&num=1 2. Going along with new and upgraded tools in Code 3, massive, huge, upgrade to disk vendors, 100s of new matches, biggest upgrade ever for disk vendors. This feature should work much better now with the new backend tools. 3. Added shortcuts: --mm for --memory-modules, --ms for --memory-short. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES: 1. None. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTATION: 1. Big update to docs/inxi-values.txt. This had gotten really out of date, with incorrect hash and other internal data assignments, all updated to be current, along with sample greps to make it easier to locate changes in the future as well. This makes this document fairly up to date and useful again for dev reference purposes, should such a dev ever appear, lol. Many values had not been updated after global refactors, like switching to the %risk data for all arm/mips/ppc platform types, and making %load, %use, %force, %fake uses more consistent. Doing this helped expose some subtle bugs and failure cases in inxi as well. 2. Added to -h and man -Ga Nvidia option info. Fixed some typos and glitches. Includes new --nvidia / --nv options for full data. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CODE: 1. Changed $dl{'no-ssl-opt'} to $use{'no-ssl'} and $dl{'no-ssl'}, that was a confusing inconsistency. 2. Added comma separated list of --dbg numbers, since often > 1 is used. Saves some debugging time, otherwise nothing changes. 3. Huge new public release of some back end tools in new section: inxi-perl/tools * vendors.pl - disk vendors tool, with data in lists/disks*.txt * ids.pl - nvidia product id generator tool, with data in lists/nv_* 4. While doing vendors.pl, I noticed that the use of array ref for $vendors was not done correctly, that's fixed now, simplifies it slightly.	2022-05-19 14:17:33 -07:00
Harald Hope	8e0b7b5ccf	Bug fix, it's a bad edid data bug, rare, but when it trips, kills inxi execution ... dead right before -G/Graphics shows. Also some nice fixes and enhancements. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN ISSUES: 1. Possible case of Gnome Wayland failing to set any gnome environmental variables, making wayland detection not possible. This was in anonymous dataset inxi-proBook4540s dataset. Person never appeared in real life so can't follow up on it. This cascaded down to other failures in display detection, and desktop detection, though in theory much of the data needed was present. I expect similar issues may appear with kde wayland. This is/was probably a configuration or build error I believe, though not enough data yet. It appears that sudo start disabled the display environmental variable detections, which is unfortunate, and the fallback loginctl tests do not appear to work for unknown reasons. I've confirmed this on Fedora stock Gnome as well. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUGS: 1. Forgot to test that return from get_display_manager is array ref, this impacts only a tiny handful of distros probably, TinyCore was one, but it is a fatal failure, so fixed it. Also fixed in 3.3.14 inxi branch. Never trips in console, only on tiny linux where no dm is used at all, I think Xvesa might be the only case this would have tripped. 2. EDID errors and warnings had several bugs, errors a fatal critical bug which made execution stop. Had forgotten to pass the $edid hash reference to the error constructor. Also had used wrong hash key in output so would never have shown. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXES: 1. Corrected ram device indentation levels. 2. Made memory width more clear with: width: data: total: which more accurately reflects the source data. Also in cases where no data or total values, only show width: N/A, not the data: total: sub items. 3. Made edid errors/warnings output to numbered list of warnings/errors instead of using join() to made one long list. Much more consistent that way. This fixes issue #266 - thanks SheridanOAI for finding this bug. 4. In --slots, -x wasn't loading the bus ID so it showed N/A, unnecessary data collection granularity, removed. 5. For Display, if no X or gpu driver, show: driver: N/A. Showed driver: gpu: N/A before. 6. For Display, remove filters for Xwayland tests, we always want to see xwayland data if it's installed. This was actually an error to not show it since display_server_data already had the correct tests to not redo Xorg data if found previously, which would be glxinfo based data. This is a partial fix also for Known Issue 1, at least we'll see Xwayland is present even if Wayland detections failed for unkonwn reasons. 7. Added some ram value dmi filters, found some that had 'none' or 'unknown'. 8. Show display protocol out of display!! Also handles most common root use cases as well, so in most cases, if the initial protocol detections failed, this will result in a decent attempt, though if root it is less reliable. sudo or regular user will be fine since looks for not tty/pts TTY type and username. This should also help narrow down Known Issue 1 failures, though there are more cases to be dealt with, but can only chip away since not enough data. 9. Made info: item in slots more robust, and able to handle more diverse scenarios. 10. Added alternate syntaxes for dmidecode permissions errors. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS: 1. Added brzdm clogin mlogind xlogin display managers. Not verified. Version for brzdm is probably like slim since brzdm is a fork of slim. 2. Added voltages to ram module report, that had been left out. Note that it's common for voltages to be either 'unknown' or not present at all. This is as close as inxi can get to handling issue #265 since there is no other source for the requested data type (show DDR3L, low voltage DDR3, which doesn't exist as a type in dmidecode). 3. Added voltages to --slots report, --slots -xx. Only shows if present. 4. Added for --slots -a for Linux, if detected, the PCI children of the bus ID of the slot. This is recursive, so supports as many levels as are present, though it would be rare for there to be more than one level of children. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES: 1. In -m ram report, moved ram type before size/speed/voltage, that makes more sense. 2. Also in -m ram report, make type: the default value (was an -x options before), which contains the no module found messages etc, making the order: Device-1: DIMM 0 type: no module installed Device-2: DIMM 1 type: DDR4 size: 16 GiB speed: 2400 MT/s This puts all the speed/size/voltage data together, and stops putting the no module found message in speed, which never made any sense. 2. In -m, changed width data to more clearly reflect the data source: width (bits): data: 64 total: 72 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTATION: 1. Man page, added a TABLE OF CONTENTS section which lists all the primary sections. Can help since the man page has gotten so darned long and man doesn't as far as I know support clickable internal links, sadly. 2. For -m, updated for revised output syntax and -x levels. Note that the help and man actually had the type: as default for -m, not -mx, but for some reason, the code had it wrong. Oops. 3. For -m, fixed some legacy output syntax in the examples. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CODE: 1. Some refactors of slots, ram, as well as a bit more refactoring of edid stuff for graphics. 2. Added $ENV{'DISPLAY'} to debugger data collector, no idea why that was left out.	2022-04-07 22:49:36 -07:00
Harald Hope	b3cdcd979a	New version, man. Continuing development of EDID and monitor features, bug ... fixes, normal fixes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN ISSUES: 1. Failed to handle case for monitor positions of array type: 2-2, 3-1, 1-3, 4-4. I'm not sure what structure those are really arranged in, but might be worth adding in the x+y pos values along with the row-col values. 2. For Monitors and graphics Device ports, if using non free nvidia driver and: nvidia-drm.modeset=1 not set in grub kernel boot parameters, there will be no /sys/class/drm data for the nvidia device, and thus no ports data, and no monitor data. 3. A class of high count DP or DVI port IDs are changed by Xorg drivers to for example: DP-6 > DP-2-3. This is very difficult to handle and will in general probably fail unfortunately because that level of port ID abstraction is just reazlly hard to deal with dynamically. 4. A to-do item: add bus ID children on --slots. This will probablby be in next inxi. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUGS: 1. None outside of the various fixes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXES: 1. In sensors, failed to pull out BAT sensor data. In most cases, this would not lead to any issues, but it could have. 2. This one just slipped my mind, I'd meant to do it, but in Montitor-x:, the primary ID should have been the 'real' kernel ID, not the mapped: ID, which is the X.org ID when different from the kernel ID. So mapped should be the Xorg version when they are different from the kernel version. 3. In Graphics, monitors can show > 1 ratio, failed to set all to :, resulting in: ratio: 3:2 or 16/10 modes:. Also fixed ParseEDID to output an array of ratios, which can then be processed as wanted. 4. Monitor map fixes: * Handle case in monitors where display ID: eDP and sys ID: eDP-1, this only works if 1 monitor in array. There's a variety of this type of failure, when X.org or its drivers decide to call the port ID XYZ with no number at all. All those possible cases are now handled, like eDP > eDP-1, VGA > VGA-1, and so on. * Added fallback, if no match, and if only 1 monitor, just map them to eachother if other mappings failed. Prompted by things like: s: DP-6 > d: DP-2-3; s: eDP-1 > d: DP-4, which are just impossible to create logic to map. 5. Removed 'ati' driver from xorg drivers list, it's simply a wrapper for r128, mach64, or radeon (and maybe amdgpu), and shows as failed, unloaded, or loaded, because of this. ati basically assigns the correct driver, that is, but is not itself a driver. Thanks mrmazda for spotting this issue. 6. Typo on QDI => Quantum Data. 7. Added fallback for monitor model, now using vendor code plus product code if nothing found for vendor nice name or model. This will show as 'model-id:' instead of model: to help differentiate the two. 8. Added Monitor product_code to manufacturer if no model name is found. 9. get_pci_vendor was trimming at ' / ' if the product string also contained ' / '. Fix is to ignore 1 character 'words' in the logic. 10. In Slots, failed to remove_duplicates in the slot info field, leading to redundant output strings. See Enhancement 3 and Code 4. 11. See Change 3, finally made -S section use full key: value pair, which makes stuff more explicit, like: System: Host: yawn Kernel: 5.16.0-11.1-liquorix-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0 Desktop: Xfce v: 4.16.0 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm v: 4.16.1 vt: 7 dm: 1: LightDM v: 1.26.0 2: SDDM note: stopped Distro: Debian GNU/Linux bookworm/sid 12. Fix for mageia and lsb distro data, force use of os-release for mageia if detected. That overrides the forced use of lsb release for mandrake/mandriva, because for some reason mageia has decided to carry ALL the legacy distro files: '/etc/lsb-release', '/etc/lsb-release.d', '/etc/mageia-release', '/etc/mandrake-release', '/etc/mandrakelinux-release', '/etc/mandriva-release', '/etc/os-release', '/etc/redhat-release', '/etc/system-release' which is really not what this stuff is intended for, if it's an actual derived distro from a living base, then yes, include the base file, but all these have the same distro id data for mageia, none for the derived distros. Also, fixed an lsb release thing to avoid using codename if codename contains release number as well. Since lsb_release is totally legacy at this point, who cares if we might miss a specific codename here and there on legacy system. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS: 1. Added Color Characteristics to EDID parser, for some reason that had been left out. 2. Added advanced EDID output option --edid, that allows for showing more advanced EDID data than is appropriate for most users cases. Ihcludes errors, color characteristics chroma: (chromacity), full modes, not just min/max. 3. In --slots, added bus-ID. Also extended report quality, made more granular, got rid of single blob from Type and Designation and now get more accurate and useful data. 4. In cases with > 1 DM, check to see if one or more are stopped or disabled, = and add (stopped) if it was detected in running service as stopped. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES: 1. Reversed monitor ID and mapped: ID values, that was a mistake, the mapped: item was supposed to contain the X.org mapped name, and the primary ID was supposed to be the actual real ID the kernel uses. Not a huge deal either way, but there it is. 2. Include disabled but connected Monitors. This works around nvidia bug showing monitors disabled when they are enabled, but also allows for showing connected monitors, though without as much data. 3. Made the last holdout -S > -Sa use strict full key: value pair output, like Desktop: XFCE v: 4.14.12 and so on. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTATION: 1. Added help/man for --edid info. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CODE: 1. In ParseEDID: made new key: edid_error, which contains an array ref of 1 or more edid errors. The previous version did a poor job and returned only the first error found, so there could have been > 1 error, and you'd never know it. This changes check_parsed_edid to _check_parsed_edid(). and adds a utility tool _edid_error, which grabs the message from main::message, giving better output integration. This also allows for future error handling expansion quite easily. 2. In map_monitor_ids() fixed matching pattern, made more robust and explicit, to catch things like s: eDP-1 d: eDP or eDP-1-1, both have been seen. Also added fallback for single monitor, just map them to eachother if mapping failed. 3. get_pci_vendor() added test for using anything that is 1 character length, to not break on 1 character length string matches. 4. Fully refactored --slots, that was originally written purely as a proof of concept in terms of adding a new feature during the original inxi 2.9 rewrite, and was never actually touched after that.	2022-03-24 11:45:05 -07:00
Harald Hope	cd1e29b0af	Just as 3.3.10 > 3.3.11 were a huge set of CPU upgrades, including significant ... internal refactors, so too is 3.3.13 a significant Graphics upgrade, featuring significant upgrades to Wayland (and Xvesa/TinyX!) support, and allowing for much more granular output controls. The legacy -Ga showing Display/Screen/Monitors is now split apart, and can now work for some features in and out of display. This upgrade should be of significant interest to any Wayland using distro, as well as the tiny Xvesa based distros like TinyCore, Slitaz, and Puppy. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE TO MAINTAINERS AND PACKAGERS: If you had Cpanel::JSON::XS or JSON::XS Perl modules as dependencies, you can remove those, inxi now can use JSON::PP, which is in Core Modules since Perl 5.14 (unless for some reason your distro removed that module from Core Modules). Basically inxi will simply look for whichever of the 3 is installed, and use that one. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN ISSUES: 1. The free drivers for xorg like amdgpu, modesetting, alter the the internal kernel IDs for monitors/gfx device ports, which is somewhat bizarre since the ideal role of any ID is to be an identifier that always works. Due to this situation, inxi has to map the kernel ids to the x driver monitor IDs in order to show the advanced monitor data, like model: mapped: and modes:. This may not always work as expected since if the mapping fails, the data will fail to match to the monitors. While not enough data is in to make any conclusions, hoping that this issue does not exist on Wayland compositors. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUGS: 1. Not sure if this was a bug, but I believe RAM vendor ID matches would never have generated results, and might have generated errors. That's corrected as part of Code fix 1. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXES: 1. Tiny indentation level issue, for -Ga, Monitor was not set to be a container for its data. This would only impact -y 1 or json and xml output cases, and would be subtle, but it was an oversight. 2. Small fix for monitor dimensions, failed to switch the mm dimensions for monitors placed in a vertical, portait mode, instead of standard landscape mode. Now switches mm x and y if that is detected, which corrects dpi as well. 3. For Xvesa: * Show vesa as display driver, Xvesa == vesa, dugh,lol. * Show better Interface and Screen resolution data missing messages. * See FIX 5 for adding in display-ID:. * Show TinX Xvesa string for server data, not just Xvesa. 4. For Wayland, which currently has no EGL support in inxi, if no glxinfo present, show EGL Wayland specific Messsage: for advanced EGL data, not the generic glxinfo that were shown previously. 5. Display was relying on xdpyinfo or a Wayland environmental variable to set display-ID:, now falls back always to $ENV{DISPLAY} if nothing else was found and that exists. I hadn't realized how much was depending on those x tools, which many people never had installed in the first place. This also supplies that for Xvesa as well, which has features that need the Display-ID to use. 6. Intel family 6, model 17h, supposed to be yorkfield, was penryn, fixed. 7. Small fix for remove_duplicates, it was not case insensitive so missed things like DELL Dell in strings. 8. Failed to detect or get Xfree86 X server version number. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS: 1. Extensive Graphics Upgrades: * -Gxx Devices: For some gpus / drivers, show vram total and used for -Gxx. amdgpu supports this, I believe it's the only one, but don't know for sure. * -Gxx Devices: (Linux only): Show active, off (connected but disabled, like a closed laptop screen with attached moniitor), and empty ports on devices. Not tested for USB yet. * -Gxx Devices: Show device ports (like VGA-1, DVI-I-1, HDMI-A-1), active, off (off is connected but disabled) and empty (linux only). * -G Display/Screen: Removed strict dependency on xdpyinfo to show advanced xorg screen and display data. Now it will show most of the data if xrandr is available, and all if xrandr and xdpyinfo are installed. More granular error messages as well. * -G Wayland Display: new type, d-rect: for > 1 monitor Wayland display layouts. Works roughly the same as Screen: s-res: does, except since Wayland has no 'Screen' concept, that goes into Display. This is sort of a rough algo, basically it takes either the dimensions of the total of x and y resolutions, or the greatest x or y resolution found for any monitor, whichever is greater, and uses that to create the display rectangle resolution composite value. * -G Display, Monitors: Extended display tool options from just xrandr to swaymsg, wlr-xrandr, weston-info, wayland-info. Still nothing on kwin_wayland or gnome-shell and mutter data. *. -S, -G: compositors, full redo of list, now supported: asc awc cage cagebreak cardboard chameleonwm clayland comfc dwc dwl epd-wm fireplace feathers fenestra glass gamescope greenfield grefson hikari hopalong inaban japokwm kiwmi kwinft labwc laikawm lipstick liri mahogany marina maze motorcar newm nucleus orbital perceptia phoc pywm qtile river rustland simulavr skylight sommelier sway swc swvkc tabby taiwins tinybox tinywl trinkster velox vimway vivarium wavy waybox way-cooler wayfire wayhouse waymonad westeros westford weston wio+ wio wxrc wxrd xuake * -G Enhanced Interfaces/GL item, previously only type OpenGL forX, now has: * X - OpenGL, requires glxinfo , same as before. * Wayland - EGL, currently no tool available, stub in place. Allegedly this data can be found but have no idea how or if a tool does that yet * Xvesa - Interface: interface type (VBE/GOP). GOP not confirmed, no data samples; v:, source:, dac: (no idea what it is, show it though), controller:, and ram: items. This is based on TinyX/Xvesa as found in TinyCore, but should work in Slitaz and Puppy TinyX as well if those projects are still around. * -G Display/Screen/Monitor data: Created structures and abstractions that allow for Wayland/Xorg/Xvesa data, most new features will work with any of these. Or Arcan, if that actually makes it, and we get data for it. We'll wait on Arcan, heh. * -G Display server: For Xvesa, added type TinyX to server if detected. Added Xwayland, which was not handled previously. For Xwayland, if wayland running, and if Xorg also installed, shows: server: X.org v: 1.20.14 with: Xwayland v: 21.01 Otherwise shows: server: Xwayland v: 21.01 * -G Compositors: fixed a long standing weak spot, if > 1 compositor detected running, not common, but could happen, shows all detected compositors. Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.13 compositors: 1: Mutter v: 41.1 2: xfwm v: 4.16.1 driver: X: loaded: modesetting gpu: radeon * -G drivers: now shows if X or gpu driver, in each its own section. This makes it more obvious what is going on: Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.13 driver: X: loaded: modesetting gpu: radeon resolution: * -Gxx Monitors: Show primary monitor with pos: primary,right. Uses either xrandr 'primary' value, or if no 'primary' found in an Xorg Screen, uses +0+0 positioned monitor. Position is based on the row and column number in the rectangular grid of monitors when monitors per Xorg Screen are > 1. For most common multi-monitor layouts, text positions are used, which are in general more clear and easy to understand than their internal numeric counterparts, that is, unless the layout is too complicated, it will show left, or top-left, instead of 1-1, and so on. Text mode positions are available for the following grid styles currently: 1x2, 1x3, 1x4, 2x1, 2x2, 2x3, 3x1, 3x2, 3x3. 'top' means the top row if > 1 row, 'bottom' means the bottom row, 'middle' is the middle row if 3 rows, 'left' is the first column, 'right' the last, 'center' if 3 columns, and 'center-l' (1-2), 'center-r' (1-3) are the 2 center columns if 4 columns. 'bottom-l', 'bottom-c', 'bottom-r'; 'middle-l', 'middle-c', 'middle-r'; 'top-left', 'top-center', 'top-right' complete the possible values. If the grid of monitors is greater than the supported rows or columns, it will switch to numeric row-column mode, with column-row numbering starting at 1-1, top left. * -Gxx Monitors: show (if detected, Linux only) monitor model, and if the display ID (from Xorg or Wayland) is different from the /sys monitor ID, show mapped: to show the /sys id. * -Gxxx Monitors: show modes: max: XxY min: XxY, or mode: XxY (if only 1 mode found). Shows hz: * -Ga Monitors: shows serial, built year, gamma, ratio, if detected. 2. Added impish 21-10 and jammy 22-04 to ubuntu id. That's for Mint base ID. Not huge point in updating if Mint doesn't update inxi, but there it is. 3. For -Axx, -Exx, -Gxx, -Nxx, shows PCIe speed and lanes. With -a, shows max speed / lanes if different than current speeds/lanes. Note that for unknown reasons not all devices in a PCIe slot show this data. 4. -Ixx: terminals added: foot, ate 5. -Sxx: login/display managers added: emptty, greetd, qingy, tbsm. See CODE 5 for more info on how this change was done. 6. -Sxxx: status/dock/panel bars added: i3-status-rs, luastatus, nwg-bar, nwg-dock, nwg-panel, rootbar, sfwbar, wapanel, waybar, yambar 7. Added a Tyan board IPMI sensor data set. 8. Added support for fruid_print for Elbrus -M Machine data. Those boards don't have dmi tables, but do ship with Elbrus OS which has fruid_print. 9. More disk vendors! Yes, you know the drill, the world turns, and with every turn, a flock of new vendors appears, like baby rabbits emerging from their warren, endlessly, a stream that is the life essence itself... or something. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES: 1. When xdpyinfo is not installed, user will still see advanced -Ga Monitor and Screen data as long as xrandr at least is installed. Better error messages as well now to explain which tool or tools missing caused the missing data. 2. -Gxx will show basic Screen and Monitors, id, mapped, pos:, model, res, dpi, diag; -Gxxx adds Monitor modes; --Ga adds screen/monitor size, Screen diag. 3. -ba/-v2 no longer show the full screens/monitor report, now it remains basic mode output, which it should have always done, unless -G is also explicitly added. 4. Split apart x-server version to v:, which should always have been the case. 5. Xvesa and Wayland no longer show glxinfo messages for no glxinfo for GL data. Now they show their own custom messages, appropriate to the case. 6. json features now test for JSON::PP, JSON::XS, or Cpanel::JSON::XS modules, and use whichever is found. Note I did not realize JSON::PP was in core modules as of 5.14 so that makes sense to use, and will allow inxi to start using json data sources, which are a lot easier to parse. 7. Changed -G drivers to show subsections for X and gpu drivers, and updated missing driver messages to account for this change. X drivers now show the sub sets of loaded/unloaded/failed/alternate, and gpu shows active gpu drivers, assuming such are detected. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTATION: 1. Help and man page updates for -G Display/Screen/Monitor changes. Redid -G, -Gx, -Gxx, -Gxxx, -Ga. Added monitor layout position feature. 2. Updated -Ga for xrandr/xdpyinfo changes. 3. Updated --recommends to more accurately show function of xdpyinfo and xrandr for -G and -Ga. 4. Reorganized and added complete table of contents to docs/inxi-data.txt -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CODE: 1. Slightly optimized use of array loads on disk_vendor() and ram_vendor() based on how it's now done for monitor layouts, which is more efficient, use a scalar to hold a reference to the array, that avoids having the array ever exist in more than 1 place. Part of the ongoing process of avoiding extra hash and array copies globally. 2. Moved to consistent undef behaviors. * For lists of variables use () to undefine, changed all of the the following: 1. (@a,$b,$c,%d) = (undef,undef,undef,undef); 2. (@a,$b,$c,%d) = (undef); 3. (@a,$b,$c,%d) = undef; to use: (@a,$b,$c,%d) = (); This undefines all the variables in the list. Note that assigning undef to @a in the first example creates an array of 1 key, with the value undef, and (@a,@b) = (undef,undef) creates arrays of 2 indexes, or something like that. Not what was wanted. Examples 2 and 3 assign undef to @a: an array of 1 index, value undef, and undefine the others variables in the list. This was not the desired behavior! * For most scalars, arrays, and hashes, use: undef @a; undef $s; undef %h. * For some hash and array index values, use $h{a} = undef. These cases may want the key itself to exist, with the value of undef, though I believe: undef $h{a}; is synonymous, but still have to verify that. I did some testing, and realized that some of the undef I had used in the various previous ways of using undef were not actually resulting in the expected behaviors. 3. Refactored display_data_x into 3 functions, added display_data_xdpyinfo and display_data_xrandr, which allows for more granular handling of those dependencies, now inxi can show most advanced display data with only xrandr installed. 4. Significantly improved all error handling and missing data for Wayland/Xorg. 5. Refactored get_display_manager() to better handle corner case dm file or directory names, and to avoid endless loops. Much cleaner now. Required because greetd had varying file names, greetd.run, or just greet-546.sock. With some other dm's that use similar, or unreadable directories in /run, now just doing a glob of /run/ /var/run, /var/run/rc.d as detected and checking for the dms in the names, then just using the dms that were found. Simpler. 6. Massively simplified and integrated compositor logic in Graphics, now using program_values() and program_data() as appropriate, and simple matching list to ps_gui data to get detected compositor[s], much simpler, far more efficient code, less to maintain. Also fixed long-standing weak spot of exiting on first detected compositor, now shows all detected, with version etc for each if available. 7. With 6. also significantly simplified and optimized get_ps_de_data() for desktop data, that's the ps aux fallback case for wm desktop detections. 8. Made $wl compositors list global to avoid having to update each section, that's now used in -G compositor, -S desktop/wm, and wm sections. It is set in ps_gui() on initial load. 7. Settled on one and only way to do multiline conditionals, now use no space, use same indent level as starting if/elsif etc. I've been debating this one, but can't find any real way to handle that elegantly so I think best to just not try, and leave it up the code flow to show when it's wrapped condition tests. 8. Refactored previous gl_output, expanded it to handle all interface types, OpenGL, EGL (not currently active due to no known tool to get EGL data for Wayland, and Interface: VBE type data for Xvesa. This roughly completed the breaking apart of the X.org centric logic for Display, Monitors, and GL data, and make all sections now fully agnostic to display server or protocol type. Should new display servers appear, it will now be far more simple to add support for them, since they would just plug into the existing abstraction layers. 9. Added --debug-arg to allow for passing specific custom args to the debugger. 10. Refactored display_server version, now works much better, creates lists of server/version, and xwayland as well if found.	2022-02-22 15:58:37 -08:00
Harald Hope	1da75146cc	Small point release with some useful fixes, some bugs corrected, small ... enhancement. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN ISSUES: 1. Note on KNOWN ISSUES 2 from 3.3.10, I realized that the second level indentation actually takes care of that hanging parent, since now it's quite clear that its children are indented on the following line. So that issue took care of itself. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUGS: 1. In $bsd_type cases, specifically SunOS triggered this, where sysctl was not present (which it always is in all other BSD types), it tripped an error due to failure to update to revised $alerts{'sysctl'}->{'message'}, instead was using the old method. Failed to update that in refactor of CheckTools logic. Would impact no supported operating systems, but is a bug. 2. Corner case, a combination I never used, inxi -a, triggers error in the RAID logic because the mdadm test was not run, generating an undefined eq error. Only happened when mdraid was present and used on system. 3. Tiny bug, for st+mt cpus, like alder lake, was printing out second tpc by accident which made it look like it said st: 4 tpc: 2. Just a small output glitch. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXES: 1. Added some fallback 32 bit system tests, [2345]86, like i386, i686. 2. Changed shell: Unknown Shell to shell: N/A, that was a legacy use, and was obviously redundant. N/A is more consistent with rest of output no value found handling. Due to requirement of doing empty tests, this is set in the data, not output, generator component. 3. Refactored partition data logic to get rid of bsd tests for df -kTP, -kT, -k. Now tests only to see if returns data, cascades down until it gets something. Now will attempt to reconnect hanging lines when no -P feature available prior to main partition data processing. This makes it agnostic to os issues, and it just pays attention to feature support. Also adds in dynamic column count instead of hard-coded, this avoids oddities and future proofs to some degree. Now systems will adapt seamlessly if support for -P appears, or -T, or whatever. 4. Partitions corner case, where has zram, but has no partitions, failed to show partitions no data found message since @partitions had data in it, but nothing for partitions output to print. Seen in TinyCore for example, but might happen in other ram based systems. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS: 1. Added Slint to distro ID, and slint/slackware to system base. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES: 1. None -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTATION: 1. Typo in man page fixed. 2. A few more edits and corrections on 3.3.10 changelong. That thing was written concurrently with the development, and thus had lingering errors when things were changed in midstream. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CODE: 1. Added --cygwin and --android fake system type flag. Switches on $b_android/ $b_cygwin flags.	2022-01-18 14:08:04 -08:00
Harald Hope	ec8ab3c213	Quick bug fix release. With as many changes as we got in 3.3.10, there were ... bound to be a handful of oversights that were not caught in testing simply because those hardware scenarios were not present in the tested systems. Also minor feature enhancement for CPU scaling min/max speeds. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN ISSUES: 1. Due to the huge amount of changes, and the speed of change, while the new code is working as intended, it's somewhat lacking in coding elegance since a lot of it was hacked out very quickly, in near real time. This will get cleaned up and refactored to be less redundant if it does not impact execution speed, but is not pressing since there should be no functional difference. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUGS: 1. Tiny oversight, in single case CPU model id would fail because it was using an undefined test from previous tests, not the right test, that is. Tripped error on Elbrus for example. 2. Typo in battery secondary type status, created undefined value error. This was I believe an older bug. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXES: 1. PPC revision change broke Elbrus revision test for stepping. Added in more tests to show stepping for elbrus revision. 2. Single core Elbrus in cpuinfo fallback mode failed to assign core multiplier so L1 cache failed. 3. In cpuinfo fallback mode, Elbrus E2C3 cache data failed to appear, that data in not per block in cpuinfo, but is the last block, so those tests had to run on each block, not just the first one. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS: 1. Show for -Ca scaling min/max speeds if different from CPU min/max speeds. 2. If no cpuinfo_min/max_freq speeds found, and scaling_min/max_freq found, set overall min/max to use scaling min/max instead of cpuinfo min/max. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES: 1. None. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTATION: 1. Cleaned up and proofread better 3.3.10 changelog, it had a lot of errors because stuff kept changing. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CODE: 1. Small code optimizations.	2021-12-16 16:17:02 -08:00
Harald Hope	c3d0e551a4	lintian edit	2021-12-14 10:42:16 -08:00
Harald Hope	4c3ab65d46	Huge refactor of CPU physical/core/cache logic. That was some very old logic ... with a lot of hacks and patches, but it had never been actually rewritten to take advantage of Perl's far more powerful and robust data structures and logic. This caused a continuous stream of error cases in subtle ways, or not so subtle, and fixes were just changing how the errors manifested. Tnanks very much to linuxquestions.org Slackware forum people for massive help, and also to linux.org forum members for ongoing help and data and debugging. Note Changes 5, change of default widths in display to 80 columns, and out (aka, console, or ssh into remote system), 100. You can still use other widths if you like something wider using the configuration options shown. Also upped max columns wrapping line starters to own rows to 110 columns from 90, again the idea being to make output more readable to other users when posted in public. I've been thinking of this change for a long time, but was hoping -y would register with users, but it hasn't gained enough traction, so the result is way too many super hard to read issue reports, forum posts, linux kernel issues, etc, it's honestly gotten sort of embarrassing because they make it look like inxi has bad output. Sidescrolling code blocks in forums in particular are absurdly hard to read and scan rapidly for data. Going along with the width and indentation changes, for most main row types, if they wrap to a second row, they are further indented 2 column2, to make it easier to see what they belong to. The two levels of indentation contain more useful visual cues as to what belongs to what. There was a temptation to release this as either 3.4.00 or 4.0.00 but in the end, I decided to follow the numbering rules, and to just roll it to 3.3.10 since there aren't really any primary new features even though CPU was basically rewritten in large part, and big parts of inxi were also changed, upgraded, and enhanced. But no truly new features, just some display control items like -Y, --indent, --indents. I hope this refactor meets its primary goals, and that the new defaults for display help resolve public posting issues which have grown increasingly annoying for anyone trying to read those pasted in too long outputs. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN ISSUES: 1. Android seems to have CPU cache data, but does not show any 'size' item. But it does have the other data for each cache type internally, which is odd. 2. In some instances, the parent key:value pairs with '' as value, those are parents of children key:value pairs, are left hanging at end of line, with the children on the following line. This can look awkward, but in other cases, actually looks very good, it depends if it's at the start or end of the line. I won't say this is not correctable, but it would be very difficult, and outside the scope of this release, but that is something that I may look at for a future release now that the output generator logic was reworked slightly for Change 5b. It's tricky though, because in cases where it's the first item on the line, you want that behavior, but when it's last, you don't. But this may be worth revisiting in the future. 3. In some cases, -Y + -y1 may lead to the start of the block scrolling off the top of the visible screen. This isn't really correctable, so if that's an issue for you, just don't use -y1 with -Y and all the output will wrap nicely. 4. There is an unaccountable ~10-20ms delay reading cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq, per thread/core, which really adds up on high thread count CPUs. There is a workaround in inxi to use cpufreq_cur_freq if it is readable, ie, if you are root or use sudo, but to fallback to scaling_cur_freq if can't read cpuinfo_... This is a drag, and really looks like a kernel bug, or a frequency driver bug. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUGS: 1. 3.3.09 and 3.3.10 CPU bug fixes: * Failed to filter out certain virtual machine CPU core speeds, and showed more speeds than the instance actually has. Noticed this with KVM running on Xeon CPUs. * For many cases, L2 cache, particularly for Intel, was completely wrong, it was showing L3 caches, or L3+L2. Failed to handle cases where L2 cache belongs to more than 1 core, except for using a crude hack for AMD Bulldozer microarch. Older Intel Core 4 core CPUs would sometimes be 1 L2 per die, and the 4 cores were actually 2 core duo cpu dies, with one L2 cache per die. * Shows wrong core count for complex core complexes like those found in Intel Alder Lake, now shows correct count of actual cores, regardless of the MT or ST state of each core. * Showed invalid L3 cache values in some legacy cpus that had no L3 cache, that is due to a bug in the dmidecode data itself. Solution is to never use dmidecode cache data if any other valid L1, L2, or L3 cache data found for Linux, and to only use dmidecode data for bsds if no L1, or L2, or L3 data found. Or if forced with --dmidecode. 2. An unfortunately long standing bug found and fixed, thanks slackware users! cp_cpu_arch was, and has been for a while, failing to convert hex stepping to decimal, or test if the string it gets is even a possible hex value, this resulted in all Intel CPUs with stepping > 9 failing to ID correctly for cpu arch. 3. In a related bug, hex to decimal tool used to create --admin hex/decimal output for family/model/stepping was also not testing if the string was an actual valid hex number. Case in particular, power pc with revision field contained a long string, which was of course not a valid hex number, and that tripped a Perl error when it was asked to convert a non hex string to decimal. 4. Long standing bug found while doing Change 5: inxi actually never applied separate in/out of dispay to widths because using a legacy boolean that was not updated, so it was always using out of display widths. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXES: 1. Incorrectly calling PowerPC 'revision' 'stepping' for -Ca, that is now stored as $cpu{'revision'} to avoid mixing up the logics there. For PowerPC shows as rev: [string]. 2. Microarch: * AMD family 15, model 2 as bulldozer, actually piledriver. * AMD family 17, model 18, was supposed to be zen/zen+, since I can't tell those apart, seen stepping 1 is zen+, but had incorrect match. * Intel family 6, model 25, stepping 2 as nehalem, should have been westmere. * Changed Penryn to Core Penryn, intel family 6, model 17 * misc other micro arch fine tunings. 3. Code fix 8, switched to global %risc for arm, mips, ppc, riscv, sparc. This corrects many sloppy handlers, and makes all risc processing the same, and calls device tree readers for all risc systems, not just arm or arm and mips. 4. In cases where bogomips were 0 due to false values in risc results, show N/A. 5. Removed all attempts to guess at what /proc/cpuinfo cache size: refers to, it can literally be anything, a per core L1, a per core or cpu L2, or an L3. So applying any math to it is just a random guess at that point. If any L1,2,3 cache data is found, don't use the cache: value at all, but that will only be present if no /sys data was found anyway, and if cpuinfo had no specific cache type fields, only generic cache. 6. Added failsafe tests for stepping and model id before doing conversion to hex. Make sure integer! 7. Added L1 D cache, was only using I cache for BSDs. Output will show total for L1 A + L1 D. No idea why I didn't use L1 D, makes little sense, but that's how it goes. 8. Made bogomips tests more granular, now only rejects low sub 50 bogomips values if %risc cpu type. Legacy ancient cpus like 486 could and did have bogomip counts below 50. https://tldp.org/HOWTO/BogoMips/bogo-list.html 9. See Enhancement 12 as well. If OpenBSD, which has no per core data or physical cpu data, is running on MT capable cpu, but for security OpenBSD has disabled MT, will now force MT to be not shown via the hw.smt value. This removes a small glitch that would have bothered OpenBSD users who know that OpenBSD has disabled MT for security purposes. 10. Changed BSD hack to use L2 cache totals to deduce > 1 physical cpus, that was flat out dumb, since we can just use dmidecode type 4 to iterate physical cpu counts and skip the pointless logic. Thus, if dmidecode, and if > 1 dmidecode type 4 found, and if physical cpu counts equal 1, then replace the found counts with the dmidecode physical cpu counts. 11. Corrected bad assumption that threads would always be 2 per core for MT tests. Still no way to reliably determine threads per core for non x86 cpus like powerpc however, but those are very fringe and should rarely be an issue since that data is only missing on very old linux now I think. 12. Fixed 'parameters:' going to its own line with -Sa, that wasn't supposed to. -S is two lines, the kernel / host stuff, and the desktop/console/distro stuff. 13. Fixed case when key: value first word plus other parts of line longer than max width, failed to wrap as expected. 14. Added start/end ' and " start / end \s to main filters. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS: 1. CPU: most Linux will now show L1 and L3 cache with -Cx without needing sudo/root, and it will be more accurate than ever before. 2. CPU: shows per CPU L1/L2/L3 totals, and shows actual full system physical processor count * L1/L2/L3 total in parentheses, like: L2: 1.5 MiB (3 MiB). 3. CPU: A long standing annoyance, previously for main CPU 'Speed:' item, showed the fastest core speed found, now shows avg: [speed] and with -Cx, shows the 'high:' as well if > 1 cores, and if 1 or more cores have a higher speed than the other(s). 4. CPU: Handles advanced cases of new architectures, like Alder Lake with Performance and Efficiency cores, future Zen, and existing ARM CPUs with 2 or more different core sets, with different max/min frequencies. Previously a hack was used to handle only ARM CPUs with this type of architecture. Will show correct CPU core counts, which previous inxi versions would fail to do for Alder Lake type scenarios of 8 single threaded CPUs and 4-8 multithreaded )MT) perforance cores. This should also in theory show different the different min/max speeds if they were detected. Those did not seem to be set correctly in Alder Lake sample data I saw however, P and E cores were set to the same min/max speeds. 5. Added CPU types MST (Multi+Single Thread), AMP (Asymmetric Multi Processing), and AMCP (Asymmetrical Multi Core Processor). This will be applied to any CPU that has this type of complex topology that has been dynamically detected, like Alder Lake or different core count or min/max speed RISC CPUs. 6. CPU: shows with -Ca for cases where different L1/L2/L3 caches found per physical CPU, as with Alder Lake, but also many other variants that were poorly or not at all handled before, how many of each cache type (L1 Data, instruction) were found, otherwise will show how many of each cache were found. 7. CPU: shows with -Ca in Topology: report, for cases like Alder Lake with different core types in one physical CPU (type: MST AMCP), the number that are single threaded (st) and number that are multi-threaded (mt). 8. Basic support for rsyc-v systems, going along with code fix 8, fix 3, now it's easy to add this type of support. 9. Added shortcut options for --filter-label (--zl), --filter-uuid (--zu), and andded new filter option, --filter-vulnerabilities (--zv). The latter is added by request, a decent idea to have option to not show cpu vulnerabilities. 10. Going with fix 7, switched to a sort of pseudo L1 d/i with desc report for any BSD with L1 I/D cache found, or elbrus cache0 (icache) / cache1 (d cache). Elbrus should hopefully be handled by the /sys tool. Guesses on the L1 are ok, since those are almost always per core, so it's fine. Didn't expect to enhance any BSD cpu data this time around, but there you go!! If they have the data, then it will be used. Not going to go overboard though in that, quite useless overall since usually can't see how many CPUs are present, at least not usually. 11. For -Ca, full CPU topology report if any complex topogy is detected, otherwise shows the same basic Info: 2x 6-core or Info: dual core as before, no point in wasting a line for something with no more data than the short string. Complex types include MT CPUs since they will have different thread counts etc, and will have 2 or more threads per core, which will also be listed. 12. If smt status is defined (0/1), shows smt: enabled|disabled in Topology section, can be useful for systems with disabled MT, but supporting it. If no topology data found (OpenBSD for example), for -C shows 'smt: disabled' after 'type:' section, and enabled if -Cxxx (since MT really already tells you that). 13. For -Ca Speed: report, added 'governor:' item, if found. Can show 1 or more active governors. 14. Output height (in lines) control: -Y [-2|-1|0|1-xxx]]. This lets you break up any of the output into whatever number of lines you want. Also useful out of DISPLAY for reading -h options menu items etc. It came tp my attention that the long standing shift+pgup/pgdown (aka 'softscrollback) behavior had stopped working, and in fact has been removed from the current Linux kernel, at least until it is rewritten to be more clean and understandable. Read more about it in these kernel post/commit messages: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=50145474f6ef4a9c19205b173da6264a644c7489 https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/CAHk-=whe4ZdTdCebneWqC4gSQZwsVJ5-Emg0BucOGCwPhOAJpw@mail.gmail.com/ Options for -Y are: * -Y 0 or -Y: Set maximum block height to terminal line height. * -Y [1-xxx]: Set maximum block line height to given integer. * -Y -1: Print out one primary data block item at a time, with -F for example. * -Y -2: Restore default unlimited height if LINES_MAX configuration item used. 15. And finally, more disk vendors/vendor ids. As usual. As expected. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES: 1. If /sys or /proc/cpuinfo speed data available: * For -b CPU item: speed: [speed MHz] min/max: [min]/[max] MHz becomes: speed (MHz): avg: [speed] min/max: [min]/[max] * For -C, Speed item Speed: [speed MHz] min/max: [min]/[max] MHz Cores (MHz): ... becomes: Speed (MHz): avg: [speed] min/max: [min]/[max] cores: ... * For short form, shows speed/min/max but uses average speed if available. For -b and -C, only shows one MHz in Speed line starter, which slightly shortens the line even with the added 'avg:' item since 3 MHz are replaced with 1. 2. Going with change 1, now the 'avg:' item shows not the fastest cpu speed found, which was the case before, but shows an average of all cpu speeds found. Showing the fastest made some sense back in the days of single core, or even dual core CPUs, but makes little sense today with many core/threaded cpus. With -x, it will show the high: [speed] item as well, after 'avg:'. 3. By suggestion, wrapped first Type item in Vulnerabilities to its own line, that's a verbose --admin option after all, no need to save lines! 4. Going along with Fix 5, give up on trying to pretend we can guess at L2 cache, now if only 'cache' data was available from cpuinfo, will just say: cache: [cache size] note: check and call it a day. 5a. Change default width to 80 columns, in and out of display. Too many users are posting horribly wrapping inxi output in forums, issue trackers, etc, and it frankly makes inxi look really bad, creates awful side scrolling code boxes, etc. So now default widths in and out of console are 80 (since often data is generated in SSH or out of X/Wayland) for issues. This essentially makes -y 80/-y the default width. This is what I've been using for a few years now, and after seeing far too many side scrolling or badly wrapping inxi outputs online, I think it's probably time to just force 80 column widths as default and call it a day. You can change these new defaults using configuration options (these are the previous options, though due to a bug, COLS_MAX_CONSOLE was never being used): COLS_MAX_CONSOLE=115 # in display, terminal client max width COLS_MAX_IRC=100 COLS_MAX_NO_DISPLAY=130 # not in display, no X/Wayland running 5b. Changed output wrapped indent to 1 column from 2, and make second and greater rows of a line indent +1 to make it more clear that it is a child row of its parent row. Note that because no arg short form, -S, and -I are special types of rows, this behavior is not used, they just print out as usual. This 1 column indent also applies to -y1, making for a little more data per line but more readable and easy to follow. 6. If > 1 physical cpu detected, no longer uses single/dual/triple/quad core strings, rather uses: 2x 2-core. Also uses lower case -core, not -Core. 7. Only show die counts for CPU (on rare occasions > 1 found) with -xx. Not particularly important bit of data afterall. 8. Make L1, L3 cache data show with -Cx, not -Cxx, now that it's working well. 9. Removed CPU die for -Cxx, that's only going to show with -Ca now. 10. If -Ca, and if certain complexity conditions are met, shows a separate Topology line rather than the Info: 6-core type item. For -b, short, -Cx, -Cxxx shows the Info: topology short form. 11. Bogomips always shows before flags data, whether -f or just -Cx trips flag output. 12. Flags/Features now shows in the same place, under Speeds: always, whether -Cx shortlist, or -Cf full list. Makes more sense that way, and code is much cleaner too. 13. Bogomips, being essentially bogus units of speed for cpu, are moved into Speed: report. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTATION: 1. Updated man/help for new CPU extra data options and output changes. 2. Cleaned up and added sample outputs for man CPU items. 3. Now that doas is getting into Linux distros, removed all mentions of doas as a BSD option, and made it a general doas/sudo item. Glad to see doas making it into linux distros, it's a good tool, much easier to configure and use than sudo. Good job OpenBSD guys. Note that inxi already has had full doas support for a while now, but this finalizes it, and makes it fully agnostic. Internally doas is actually preferred over sudo, by the way. 4. Added documention items for INDENT (--indent), INDENT_MIN (--inident-min). 5. Re-ordered help menu and man page, created new Filters and Output Controls sections to make stuff easier to find. In man page, also added on top a list of OPTIONS sections to make finding stuff easier. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CODE: 1. Removed legacy /sys cpu functions: cpu_bugs_sys(); get_boost_status(); set_cpu_speeds_sys(). cpu_speeds() is deprecated and now will only be used for legacy Linux and BSDs if they had any per core speeds found; get_caches() was only a placeholder for the full featured cpu_sys data source, and was removed; cpu_speeds() no longer needed, integrated into other logic; cpu_dies_sys() removed, integrated into other logic. This logic is now integrated into cpu_data_sys() data generator. 2. Changed the main CpuItems functions to use array/hash references, not passing full hashes or arrays in most cases now. 3. For machine_data_soc(), switched to CpuItem::cpuinfo_grabber() which then sets the global @cpuinfo and %cpuinfo_machine items, which will be used again in Cpu if cpu data is requested. This gets rid of a full parsing of cpuinfo just to get the machine data section, and also makes it so cpuinfo in cpu does not need to worry about the machine data block, which is not related to the processor blocks anyway, that was always a hack done by the kernel guys to toss that SOC data somewhere as far as I can tell. 4. New tools: * either_or() - takes a list, and returns the first defined element of list. * regex_range() - generate ranges from comma, space, or ranges like 2-29, or any combination of those, like 3,6,12-29 5. Added --force cpuinfo to bypass all /sys based cpu logic, useful for testing to see what would have happened using old logic. 6. Added --dbg switches 39, 40, 41, for the new cpu sys data features, also made more consistent --dbg 8 and --dbg 38 switches. 7. Added sys/cpuinfo pair debugger to support debugging complex sys/cpuinfo issues. 8. Got rid of $b_arm,$b_mips,$b_ppc,$b_sparc, replaced with global %risc, also added $risc{'riscv'} type. this makes general risc type feature testing a lot easier since inxi can either test for %risc defined, or for a specific type of risc cpu. This is much cleaner, and use $risc{'id'} for print purposes, which got rid of a lot of tests. Also made all risc tests consistent, some were ARM only, or arm/mips, but were supposed to be for all risc cpus. 9. Set help menu code to roughly 80 columns width assuming 2 space tab indentation. 10. Changed all xxx_cleaner subs to clean_xxx, all filter subs to filter_xxx, and row_defaults() to message(). 11. Dumped redundant fallback logic in get_kernel_bits, if first getconf method fails, use $sys_bits, and call it good, it was repeating the 32/64 bit tests pointlessly. 12. Cleaned up print_data() to allow for more fine tuned indentation for the new 2 indent levels. 13. Made help menu code more or less wrap to 80 columns, or close. Ongoing to bring to 80 columns where practical, but never at expense of clarity or logic. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Harald Hope - Tue, 13 Dec 2021 10:25:49 -0800	2021-12-14 10:35:42 -08:00
Harald Hope	2feaf0b853	Thanks manjaro user alven for finding a bunch of corner and not so corner case ... errors, glitches, documentation oversights, etc. This is a point release between the coming full CPU refactor and the current set of bug fixes and issue handlings. This release also contains the debuggers for the new CPU data logic, which are important to get this CPU refactor stable and reliable across old/new systems, different operating systems and platforms. Wanted to do this intermediate releaase to get the current fixes out, which make inxi overall better for CPU issues, but do not handle the core requirement to do a full refactor. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CORRECTION: 1. On release notes for 3.3.08: due to a long delay to get real debugger data from the person who had the issue, but finally getting it after the release of 3.3.08, there was NO bug in ps wwaux output. Something else was creating the linewraps, maybe the subshell, it's basically impossible to know since we never got a real debugger data set, which is the only real way to get the actual same data inxi will see. Was it a subshell wrapping the output? We just can't know, nor are we likely to ever find out. This highlights very well however why some issues are essentially impossible to ever fully resolve without the --debug 22 dataset. This bug/fix is definitely in that class of issues. It's never good to accuse another program of having a bug when it doesn't, so sorry to ps authors, no bug or issue exists for ps in this area. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN ISSUES: 1. wiryonolau issue #259 points out that if --tty is used, default IRC filter rule is still active and on. Because his case appears to be from an autostart using Bash, which then gives up to find the parent at dash, which then makes inxi believe it's in an IRC shell client, that issue doesn't appear to be resolvable. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUGS: 1. Documentation, help menu and man page showed wmctl instead of wmctrl, which for someone who reads the help man, leads to command --fake wmctl failing. Thanks manjaro user alven for finding this typo. 2. For dmidecode cpu data, had global total values for cache that could result in wrong output values, 2x or more wrong for L1 / L3 cache on linux. Difficulty is preserving that data for bsd, which in general do not show phys cpu counts, and thus make showing totals off. Created new '-total' item for each L cache type, which will handle > 1 cpus, and also can be used to determine if > 1 cpus present!. 3. Manjaro user pointed out that hub types were wrong, this is because inxi was using the INTERFACE ID values for hubs instead of the TYPE values. For all other device types, INTERFACE is correct, but for hubs, we needed TYPE, so fix is to detect INTERFACE 9/0/0 and if TYPE present for that, swap. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXES: 1. For > 1 cpu systems, with dmidecode sourced cpu cache data, can now determine physical cpu count based on comparing L2 and L2-total values. This means that when dmidecode is used on BSD for CPU data, inxi may now be able to deduce that it is a > 1 cpu system. 2. Forgot to set $run{'filter'} to 0 for whitelist start client detection. 3. Going along with bug 3, changed 'Full speed (or root) hub' to: Full speed or root hub, to make more clear that it's one or the other, or both. 4. For apply_filter(), added test if <superuser required> just return the string. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS: 1. Going with bug 1, and fix 1, for > 1 cpu systems, will now show for all cache: items L1: 2x 1.5 MiB (3 MiB), same for L2 and L3. This is far less confusing than showing the totals without explaining what they are. 2. Going along with 1, now root is not required to show L1 and L3 -Cxx on Linux as long as the system is reasonably new, about after 2008, and has getconf -a supported. That support is came in somewhere around 2.10, not sure exactly when. Debian Etch had it, Sarge did not, Ubuntu 9.10 had it. Tinycore does not have getconf at all. This will probably be replaced by a more robust full cpu /sys data tool. 3. Added ht to default short -Cx flag list, that should show, and it's short. 4. Added --no-filter to activate -Z, --filter-override isn't consistent with other --no-xxx options, even I forgot it. No changes, just another way to use -Z. 5. For issue #260 added pch as a new sensor output type, it's kind of a builtin southbridge / northbridge in the CPU die, but it's not a core, and has a different temp. Will anyone even know what pch is? probably not, but who cares. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES: 1. No longer showing for > 1 physical cpu systems the sum total of L1/2/3 cache data. Now shows per cpu L1/L2/L3, and if > 1 cpu, shows for example: cache: L1: 2x 512 KiB (1024 KiB) L2: 2x 2 MiB (4 MiB) L3: 2x 20 MiB (40 MiB) For single physical cpu output remains the same: cache: L1: 576 KiB L2: 3 MiB L3: 16 MiB -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTATION: 1. Updated help/man for L1/L3 cache -Cxx changes. 2. Updated man and help to suggest -Z for --tty. 3. Forgot to note -v 7 adds -f, added to man/help. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CODE: * Added 'getconf -a' to debugger, that may be usable for cpu cache data, need to gather data on that to confirm. that's regading issue #257 cache glitches. 2. Removed all * $physical_count for cache data in cpu_properties, that is now handled by creating string with cpu count, per cpu caches, and total in parens. 3. Added in fallback failure case for the ZFS file system issue exposed by accident in issue #258 - will now log in debugger the error, so we can try to find what is going on there, impossible to reproduce until we find what zfs or more likely, freebsd, changed there. Could be hyper specific, some weird thing like a person making a zfs device name with space, impossible to guess. Note that since the freebsd user declined to supply any data to help resolve this issue, then closed it, we're back where we usually end up with FreeBSD issues, either a Linux user (or worse, me) willing and able to find the issue and supply the debugger data required shows up, OR the issue is ignored as valid but impossible to resolve. RANT: Note that this also confirmed to me that in order to preserve my own sanity and not waste endless hours trying to get data, from now on, unless utterly trivial, if a FreeBSD user refuses to promptly supply the required data, the issue will be closed with a freebsd-closed-no-data-supplied label, which means, valid but not possible to solve due to user refusing to help me help them. Come on FreeBSD users!! If you want help, and inxi to support your distro, help me help you!! If not, then why are you even filing an issue in the first place? Do you expect faeries to spread magic bug / issue fixing faerie dust over inxi and then activate it with their little wands? This is growing tiresome to be honest because it's so utterly predictable. 4. Shuffled order of sensor type detections, there was a slim chance that a non gpu sensor type could have string intel in it, so put the gpu sensors second to last, before 'main'. 5. Started refactor of cpu core/cache logic. Added feature to cpu_arch, and changed it to cpu_info since now it gives by vendor/family/model/stepping both micorarch and cache/core math array returns. Also started refactor to make more predictable, with increased comments, about what is going on in cpu_properties to avoid breaking existing correct results. 6. Added to --debug /sys cpu data globber tool, that will help debugging the new /sys cpu data feature, will let me insert the file data directly into the logic. 7. Added CpuItem::cpu_data_sys() with debuggers, that will now start collecting user cpu data whenever the debugger is run, though it's not active yet. 8. Set $Data::Dumper::SortKeys = 1; dugh, could have saved big headaches if had found this before. Makes all keys sorted cleanly, gets rid of random hash sorts.	2021-11-22 12:47:54 -08:00
Harald Hope	385e91e602	Bug fix release. 2 bugs that can impact all users under the right circumstances ... were detected and fixed. Thanks manjaro users there for finding and reporting those. No other changes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUGS: 1. Manjaro user ben81 located a critical bug in hardware raid output, this bug impacts ALL users of hwraid that run inxi with -xx option. Bug was a bad copy paste, the classic, had updated all the pci type data blocks at once, and hw raid unfortunately had a slightly different logic due to being part of the more complex RAID block of logic. Was trying to use an array, not a hash, reference. Thanks ben81, I would never have spotted this one, and it would impact 100% of all inxi users with hwraid on their machine who ran inxi with -xx option. 2. Also, ps wwaux parser was spitting out an undefined index error. This is caused by one of two things: * ps has an issue, and is apparently at times failing to respect ww, unlimited line length, and wrapping anyway. This is the likely cause. * the user terminal for some inexpicable reason has decided to hard wrap long lines. This is very unlikely, but has to be considered as a possible cause. Since these commands run in a subshell, this is VERY unlikely. Workaround this failure by double checking that line split item is defined, if not, next row. Thanks Carpenter for finding that one. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CODE: 1. Added workarounds for bug 2. Corrected silly copy/paste error for bug 1.	2021-10-21 12:26:48 -07:00
Harald Hope	a6c1c46db2	-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ... RELEASE NOTES: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some very nice issue reports have helped correct various corner case issues. Mint users helped find a big one with lspci. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN ISSUES: 1. Unsure how to handle Android case where inxi correctly does -r test, see bug 3 fixes 6, but android incorrectly claims it is readable when it is not readable, then the reader tool can't read the file and fails with permissions error. This is one of those weird android errors that are pretty much impossible to fully work around, but we can get rid of the readline() errors when reader() was trying to work on a file handle that did not exist, that part was an inxi bug. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUGS: 1. dm detection was not using case sensitive search for duplicates, leading to cases where dm like slim / SLiM failed to get detected and then repeated in output. Anonymous BSD debugger dataset exposed this issue, thanks. 2. In certain corner cases, like ARM Android, sub reader got passed a file that had passed the is readable -r test, but it still failed with permissions error, which then led reader to try to keep working with a null $fh. While in theory nothing non readable should be passed to reader(), that fails when the OS fails to actually follow correct readable rules, as in this case. Added protections in reader() to handle this case, now will show error, but will not try to work with $fh, that is how it should have been all along, but this is a very corner case. Exposed by an anoymous ARM debugger dataset. Thanks Termux user for creating the debugger dataset that exposed this issue. 3. lspci parser didn't null port value each iteration, resulting in all pci items getting port values. Not a big deal, port is only used one place, but good to find and correct that error. 4. Not an inxi bug, but would appear so to end users: lspsci -nnv implements a truncating routine and breaks the first line for each bus id. See Fix 6 and Code fix 3. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXES: 1. -S and -I would show Console: tty pts/3 even though pts device is a pty, not a tty. The only time this happened was when connecting to a remote system using ssh or something like that. Local console still shows Console: tty 2 since that was correct, but Console: tty pts/2 was confusing since technically it's not a tty, it's a pty, pseudo terminal. Now shows, when relevant: Console: tty 2 OR Console: pty pts/2. 2. Issue #252 notes that Emacs (and possibly other code/text editors with native embedded terminals) includes a native virtual terminal that also follows configuration rules from the editor to highlight trailing spaces. This created odd looking screen output in Emacs vt mode since inxi always sets key/value pairs with a white space ending as separator for next key value pair for screen output mode, resulting always in a trailing space on each vt screen line. Fix was to remove the last trailing space just prior to the print line point to avoid this issue. As a general thing, I'm curious to learn if any editor other than Emacs actually contains its own virtual terminal that also follows the editor rules for output. Or if any virtual terminal has such a highlight trailing space rule, which would be imo so annoying it's hard to understand why a vt would implement it. Easy to understand why Emacs (or any editor) does it, but an editor also being a vt AND applying certain editor display configurations to the vt is a very specific and unique circumstance I'd say. Odd, historical, but there it is, why not handle it? 3. ARM / Android case where certain files passed the read -r test, but failed with permission denied error. This tripped a further glitch where reader() would then try to work with the failed $fh, see bug 2. This was really more a fix than a bug, since the bug in this case was in android permissions tests, not inxi, but it appears to be a bug to end users, so it's handled now. 4. Another ARM/Android, there was a voltage regulator IP that contained the term wlan so it tripped false positive for network match. Added a new type, regulator, to filter out those, like codec and dummy do already. 5. For issue #254, fix for cygwin ERR-102 in partitions, add cygwin test, new dev type, 'windows', dev base then becomes E: or whatever. To avoid confusing D: for a key: with no value, added D:/ slash. 6. Mint people discovered lspci issue, lspci -nnv has a bug where it will truncate the output of the first line per bus ID if it's over some arbitrary amount, then tack on rev and other items to end of that string, which leads to the block: [vendorID:productID] getting truncated or removed altogether. Clearly an oversight, at least I hope it's an oversight on lspci's part, but have to work around the issue anyway since it may never get fixed, and has been around a long time. Bug is in lspci 3.7, 3.6.4, and probably earlier. Also added in a fillin tool for this rare case, lspci -n data is used to replace the missing values. Note that while lspci recommends using -mmv, for machine parsing, apparently nobody noticed that -mmv doesn't have the same data items as -nnv, sigh. 7. Issue #255 noted that the combination of: GoogleDrive Hogne: fuse.rclone 15728640 which is two word remote fs AND a fs type with a '.' in it would fail to trip the handler for that multi word remote mount name. Also failed to detect as remote fs, added fs specific test since the actual mount name doesn't permit reliable detection as remote type. Testing for trailing ':' isn't safe since ':' alone is not an invalid character in a file system name as far as I know. Further, this exposed that the ^^ space replacements for $row[0] fs > 1 word name were not being reset soon enough in the logic, that's also corrected. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS: 1. Neglected to support standard package config file override /etc/inxi.d/inxi.conf item. This is mainly useful for packaged inxi's who want to override the distro maintainer /etc/inxi.conf file. Test priority is the same except /etc/inxi.d/inxi.conf comes right after /etc/inxi.conf now in the test sequence. 2. Added basic cygwin id, yes, inxi works in cygwin, apparently, with some issues. Added cygwin os id to distro ids. 3. Added --version info for debugger, sometimes we want to know what verion of a tool, like lspci, in case it has a bug or something. 4. Added exfat and apfs to unmounted fs types. 5. More disk vendors!! New vendor ID matches!! Yes, yes, you've heard it all before, the list never ends!! The eternal chaos of existence manifested in just how many IDs can be generated for new and old disk vendors alike!!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES: 1. No changes this release. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTATION: 1. Pull request #253 corrected typos, urls, and other errors in man page, inxi/pinxi comments, pinxi.1/inxi.1, README.txt, and updated LICENSE.txt to current gnu wording. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CODE: 1. Forgot to add lspci debugger fake data option, that's corrected. That's --fake lspci, now works, didn't before, only the bsd pci tools had fake switches previously, since lspci never needs debugging really, but did now to test an issue report. 2. Added -CYGWIN to debugger file name. Added -ANDROID if ARM and if android. 3. With Fix 6, refactored entire lspci_data block, added lspci_n_data item, which matches bus id of lspci -nnv when corruption occurs and replaces vendor, product, and if also missing, rev version. I kind of knew I'd have to do this fix one day, that was the same fix logic used on the BSD pci tools, which have similar issues with consistency in output, or lack thereof. This refactor is long term very good because it avoids an entire class of possible errors, and makes pci detections far more robust. 4. Created new repo, for legacy code, inxi-legacy. Moved branch inxi-c to inxi-legacy/xorg-c, moved branch xiin to /xiin, moved branch inxi-legacy (binxi) to inxi-legacy/inxi-legacy. Those directories each contain all the files each branch had in it. This gets rid of some branches clutter, and nobody needs to see those anymore, but if they care, they can look at them. Note that to do this, I had to merge their histories, which was not that nice, but git is just really bad at this type of stuff, so that's how it goes. Times like this really make me miss svn's directory based branch approach... 5. Simplified sub fs_excludes, simplified regex constructors for all function that use this data, made list more fault tolerate by adding global (fs)?(\d{0,2} which means all file systems can have or not have 'fs' at end, and all can have or not have a version number in string. 6. Exposed by issue #255, refactored slightly ordering of partition filter logics and variable resets in the df output processing loop. 7. Added --fake partitions, to help debug odd corner cases like cygwin glitches.	2021-10-11 18:56:00 -07:00
Harald Hope	73d9643907	redid patches, I think	2021-08-24 20:39:33 -07:00
Harald Hope	b737838957	small fix	2021-08-24 20:32:53 -07:00
a1346054	06aba8cd5a	fix whitespace alignment in manpage	2021-08-25 02:14:11 +00:00
a1346054	e09ec42630	fix spelling	2021-08-25 02:13:54 +00:00
Harald Hope	f571b45973	New version! Fixes!! Bug fixes! More bug fixes!! Cleanups! ... Most of these were exposed by issue #251 filed by LukasNickel, then further revealed via his debugger data set, which showed two more bugs. Well, bugs, changed syntaxes, same difference to end users. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN ISSUES: 1. Work is ongoing to add btrfs support to -R (similar to softraid or zfs), basic stubs and debuggers added, but reporting tools are not as robust (and often require sudo/root for reasons that escape me) as I would have hoped, so it's slow. One of these days... Normally would not release with working stubs, but there were enough real issues/bugs to warrant just getting 3.3.06 out the door, then going on with the btrfs feature for -R. But so far I view the reporting tools as inadequate, unfortunately. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUGS: 1. As initially discovered in issue #251 there are alternate syntaxes which had never been seen before for remote mounts, fuse mounts, etc. In this case, it was fuse.sshfs that was not removed from the Disk total:... used: leading to silly 1000+% used percentage. Note that while technically inxi could try to be clever about reporting impossible percentages, so far those have led to bugs getting reported, then fixed, so I think it worth leaving it as is. 2. When --swap/-j is used with no other arguments, failed to show uuid or label. Discovered this while testing fix 2. 3. Bug which is not a bug but will appear as such to users, nvme temps were failing in -Dx due to a change in how those values are located in /sys. See fix 3. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXES: 1. Going along with Bug 1, and considering that only in 3.3.05 was the nfs4 remote fs failure to identify/exclude, the entire section involving remote/ fuse etc file systems was refactored, and extended to add many more previously non-handled remote and fuse type file systems. Significant extension of known remote filesystem types, distributed file systems, overlay file systems, all to try to avoid having more distributed/remote/fuse file system issues. Also added test to support fuse. or fuseblk. type prefixes for any of these. Hopefully there will be fewer issues related to distributed and remote and overlay type file systems in the future. 2. Made all label/uuid triggers global, that is, -ol shows unmounted with labels, -ju shows swap with uuid, and so on. This may require a bit more tweaks to get exactly right, but in general, this is a purely cosmetic fix, that is, try not to show label/uuid for partition/mounts that probably can't have those values. 3. There was a change in the way nvme /sys temperature paths were handled, an actually understandable, albeit as always annoying, one, because inxi actually had to do a sort of convoluted hack to get the nvme block devices temperatore paths before, now that hack is not required for newer kernels (5.12+), though for kernels that had the old paths (5,8, 5.9 at least, don't know when paths changed) left in the old method. Now tests are more granular, and inxi should find temperatures regardless of which method is used for nvme and sd type drives. 4. Another somewhat irksome random change, again, understandable since the new syntax is more consistent in output than the previous one, but still breaks all existing parsers that use the changed field names. Lsblk did NOT change the -o input field names, but DID change the output field names, which broke the internal inxi parser, and led to null lsblk data. Changes were - or : separators in input values are output as _ always. that is, MAJ:MIN becomes MAJ_MIN. Also corrected the debugger lsblk to use the same output fields for -P -o as the actual lsblk parser uses internally so these failures can be spotted more readily, as it was, it was literally only because someone submitted the debugger dataset, and was running lsblk 2.37, where I believe this behavior change happened. Solution was to just use regex patterns instead, [:_-], in the parser. Big fear now is that they will randomly stop supporting the -o input field names that contain - or : and change that too without any real warning or deprecation notice. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS: 1. Going with bug and fix 1, added avfs, afs, archivemount, avfs, ceph, gfs, glusterfs, gmailfs, hdfs, ipfs, kosmos/kfs, lafs, mergerfs, mhddfs, moosefs, ocfs, openafs, orangefs, overlayfs, pvfs, s3fs, sheepdog, vmfs, and several others to the exclude list for disk used and show label/uuids for partitions. 2. A smattering of disk vendors added. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES: 1. Going with fix 2, -l and -u no longer will trigger -P by default, now if -l or -u are used without -j, -o, -p, -P, an error will explain that you must use one of those together with -l or -u. This was the only way to get the -l and -u switches to turn off/on label/uuid reports in swap, unmounted, and partitions consistently. Triggering -P was really a legacy behavior from when the only options were -p or -P, and --swap and --unmounted did not exist. I found it increasingly odd that unmounted would show label/uuid always but partitions only with -l/-u. 2. This was a pet peeve, sometimes field names just bug me (like 'Topology: did for CPU, now corrected to Info:), the Drive: rotation: was one such annoyance. I had recycled that to indicate SSD, which was a feature request, but that was always a sloppy solution, and made no sense, since SSD isn't a rotation speed. Now it reports a much more logical: ID-1:...... type: HDD rpm: 7200 or ID-1:...... type: SSD or ID-1:...... type: N/A This also corresponds to the intended meaning much better. The HDD type was always present internally if rotation speed is detected, but was not used. Now will also show type: N/A if reliable type detection failed, which will also be more consistent. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTATION: 1. Brought most of inxi.changelog (this file) into a consistent state, re whitespaces, readability, consistent use of various header / section names. Ideally while I don't expect anyone to ever sit down and read this changelog, it will be now much easier to scan to find whatever interests you. This change goes along with ongoing changes in docs to in general try to be usually 80 columns wide. 2. inxi-resources.txt, inxi-data.txt are updated with more raid, partition, file system values and data to go along with bug, fix, enhancement 1. 3. Man and help updated to indicate -u and -l no longer trigger -P by default. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CODE: 1. Ongoing refactors, bringing the codebase to the point that matches current coding styles. Removed remainder of whitespaces in conditions and for/while loops, for example: if ( condition ) { becomes: if (condition){ and if ( ( test set 1 ) && ( test set 2 ) ) { becomes: if ((test set 1) && (test set 2)){ and so on. That dropped over 2 KiB of whitespaces. This went along with fixes that have been ongoing to change to this whitespace use style, but previously it was only being done when that situation was hit in a local block, now it's been completed globally. This continues the style refactor that has been ongoing for a while now, to bring inxi into a consistent state, since when it started, it was more pressing to get the bash/gawk mess translated to Perl than it was to get the Perl itself to be as good/consistent as possible, so now those issues are being slowly unravelled, and hopefully will set inxi on course for its next 10 years. It was starting to get annoying, because some parts of inxi used those spaces, and all newer ones didn't in general. Now it's one behavior throughout the whole program file. 2. Refactored the entire fs exclude for disk used data, and integrated those values into a global tool that is used either to exclude file systems from disk used totals, or to not show uuid/labels for the excluded remote/distributed/overlay type file systems, which in general don't have uuid or labels.	2021-07-21 20:30:58 -07:00
Harald Hope	55ca175e5a	Many small updates, enhancements, bug fixes!!! We've been saving them up!! Here ... they are!! Don't wait!! Thanks mr. mazda for many issue finds, and suggestions. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN ISSUES BUT CAN'T OR WON'T BE FIXED: 1. Due to unfixable rpm slowdowns, removed package counts for default output for rpm based systems. We were seeing delays of up to 30+ seconds just to list the rpm package count, which is absurd, even after the rpm optimizations inxi already runs. To allow rpm users to get excluded by default for rpm package list counts, added --pkg flag plus a short message telling them to use that flag to get the installed package count if they want it. Changes like this are very unfortunate, but in 2021 for a package manager at times to require over 30 seconds to generate a trivial installed package list is just not acceptable. One of the reasons this release was delayed was this was not an easy decision to make, it's very rare support for a feature is removed for specific tools due to how badly the tools may perform. Note that whatever higher level tool is used, like dnf, zypp, it's still the same speed, they all appear to use the same core engine. Basically this decision was forced since either inxi looks really bad and slow, when it's not, or the actual cause was removed from default outputs. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUGS: 1. Small bug in nfs blacklist for disk used led to nfs used being added, which leads to silly used percents. This is corrected. 2. If ram vendor ID failed, inxi would delete the part number. Oops. This was related to the Mushkin failures. 3. Close to a bug, though not one internally, but to users would appear as one: ZFS does not act as expected, zpool list did not in fact return the pool size, which I had always assumed to be the case, but in a very strange decision, does return something very close to the pool size for mirrors, but NOT for z1 or z2 pools, then it returns the total size of the drives that make up the pool. To call this strange behavior would be an understatement. The fix was to modify the logic to use zfs list instead to get the size data. This also makes the drive total report far more accurate, since it lists usable space now for ZFS as was always intended. The cause of this was simply that I'd always had access to zfs mirrors, not z1 or z2 arrays. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXES: 1. OpenSuse and maybe others use kdm3 for Trinity, not kdm, so dm was failing. 2. Going along with fix 1, made kde version detection more robust so may catch more fringe / corner cases for kde desktops. These were mainly added to correct Trinity desktop version detections. 3. Mushkin ram vendor ID was failing, that is or should be corrected. 4. Added in /dev/disk/by-id handlers for zpool components, there are several variants, wwn-, pci-, scsi-, ata-, but they all map to the real /dev drive IDs. Failure to unmap these led to failing to match components and get size info etc for zfs. 5. See DOCUMENTATION: 2, language changes for weather feature abuse. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS: 1. Going along with the rpm issues, added dnf.conf support to yum/dnf repo types. Not sure how that one was missed, but there it is. This should tighten repo reports for dnf/yum/zypp types. 2. Added LeftWM. LeftWM confirmed working. Added unverifed detections for: penrose, 2bwm, 5dwm, catwm, mcwm, monsterwm, snapwm, uwm, wingo, wmfs, wmfs2. 3. Added xfwm as a compositor type, that had bee left out, somewhat on purpose, since xfwm can run in compositing or non compositing mode. But should show since many users use compositing mode now. 4. Added OpenMediaVault distro ID and systembase handlers. 5. Going along with zfs bug fix 3, using zfs list data for free, size, allocated. Trying to understand how zfs developers actually thought about this is nearly impossible so just used what seems to correspond to reality most. Also shows raw values for zfs data in RAID along with regular ones to make clear which is which value. 6. Added more CPU architecture ID matches for AMD Zen and a variety of Intel. Both vendors finally released some new CPUs and the data became available, which doesn't always happen quickly. 7. A bunch of new disk vendors and vendor IDs added. Never stops, like the sands of time, like the ocean waves, like the scuttling crabs scrounding around in the seaweed in the foam where the outgoing wave left its mark... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTATION: 1. Added leftwm keybindinigs to inxi-data.txt desktop/wm section. Updated more wm in that section as well, and list more info on wms for future reference etc. Also reorganized and more more readable wm section. 2. Help/Man now make more clear that automated requests or excessive use of the inxi weather feature are not under any circumstance permitted. There had been some ambiguity and lack of clarity about what abuse is, now it should be more clear. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CODE CHANGES: 1. Refactored uptime parser logic, the code and regex was just getting too messy and difficult to work with and debug, now it works similar to how the revised BSD parsers run, the regex are pulled apart and made more granular so a small syntax change ideally won't break the detections as easily. 2. Cleaned up sub cpu_arch() and made all the arch values line up nicely, over time I notice that almost invariably stuff done to save lines of code makes code harder to read as the feature expands, so it's generally worth just unravelling it so it all stacks and is easy to scan/read. Also removed extra white space in parens, which is something I'm leaning more towards but it's not worth fixing all at once so it's just done where it's noticed. That's using: if ( /test/ ){ rather than: if (/test){ I believe using more white space helped with Perl comprehension in the intermediate stages, but is not required anymore and just looks like extra whitespace now.	2021-07-11 19:32:13 -07:00
Harald Hope	991a35d665	Enhanced features!! Huge BSD upgrades! Bug Fixes!! Elbrus Fixes!! More bluetooth ... fixes!! What are you waiting for?!!? A special thanks for significant help, ongoing, leading to a huge boost to BSD support, Stan Vandiver, who did a lot of BSD testing, and setup many remote access systems for testing and development of the latest BSD upgrades. If you're a BSD user, you can thank him for helping to expand BSD support! Take special note of the code folding fixes in Fix 1, those open up possible free software code editors that can be used to work with inxi to more than just Kwrite/Kate, to include scite and geany, nice lightweight code editors. You can't do real work in inxi without code folding, so getting this finally resolved was I think worth it. Also, for the first time ever!! inxi is now using Pledge, well, if OpenBSD::Pledge module is available, which is currently only in OpenBSD, since that's the only system that supports Pledge security, except for Serenity, but inxi doesn't support Serenity. Note that OpenBSD was smart and added OpenBSD::Pledge and OpenBSD::Unveil to Perl Core modules, thus removing any hoop that might stop a Perl program from implementing it. Nice going OpenBSD guys! The addition of OpenBSD softraid support for RAID and CRYPTO types highlights the problem with --raid and --logical, where --raid is really just a subset of Logical volume management. Note that while the hardware RAID feature only lists the actual PCI RAID device, OpenBSD bioctl supports hardware RAID out of the box, something I'd thought of doing in inxi for a few years, but it's too much work, but bioctl has done the work, which is impressive. Can't do much without a lot of debugger data there though, but it's worth being aware of. In this case, since softraid is the primary device, I opted to call Crypto and RAID types all RAID, same as with linear zfs. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN ISSUES BUT CAN'T OR WON'T BE FIXED: 1. FreeBSD: USB drivers. I really gave this a try, but could not get any logic to be stable across systems and varying syntaxes used. Will wait for FreeBSD to add drivers to usbconfig -vl. Note that this makes it not possible to correctly match USB networking devices to their respective IF data, so USB networking IF will fall back to the undetected IF-ID, which means it was found but not connected to a specific hardware device. 2. FreeBSD Battery Report: there are non-objective values for Battery state data in sysctl output, as in minutes remaining, which has no meaning, and percent charge (percent of what? original design capacity? current actual capacity?). If data with voltages, design/current capacity in Ah or Wh, is made available, support will be added. Note that there are 3rd party tools that do supply this data in a usable format, but they are not in core so no point. 3. BSDs All: have found no way to get physical CPU counts. this will lead to odd outputs in some cases, like a 2 cpu system reporting itself as a 2x the actual core counts single CPU, but the data just isn't there as far as I know. Dragonfly in some cases appears to have that data. 4. BSDs All: so far no way to get live per core cpu speeds using a file or fast command query. Thought I'd found a way in FreeBSD but that was not the correct clockrate values, or inconsistently right/wrong, so not using it. Also saw the same issue with max/min frequencies in FreeBSD so removed that item, it's better to show nothing than data that is not reliable or actually not even referring to what it seems to be. 5. BSD SOC Support: An issue poster asked why FreeBSD (but really BSD in general) SOC ARM device, like RaPi, support, was so weak in inxi. The reason is simple: to do SOC ARM device data in a meaningful way requires a complete path based data structure, which the BSDs do not appear to have, at least from what I've seen so far. See Linux's /sys data structures for examples of what is required to add or expand inxi SOC device support in inxi. It's hard even with that type of rich path based data, and without it I won't try. The bright side is inxi runs perfectly on such devices, no errors, which was amazing to see, and spoke volumes of the recent work done to extend support for the BSDs. 6. Perl / inxi, when run as root, shows read error when trying to open a 200 / --w------- permission /sys uevent file for reading. The test works as expected as user, but not as root. Perl will try to read it when run as root even though it has no read permissions, only write. This in reality only manifests on very old /sys, from Debian Etch kernel 2.26 days. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUGS: 1. tput + urxvt / FreeBSD: There appears to be a bug in Arch Linux urxvt that leads to failed terminal/console size from tput. Also while trying to resolve this bug, discovered that if you use "tput cols 2>/dev/null" in FreeBSD, for some inexplicable reason tput puts out defaults 80 cols x 24 rows. Why? Who knows. Added in non numeric tests of output to handle errors from tput instead. The bug appears to be what rxvt reports itself as vs what it is actually running as. This issue isn't present in any other distro I tried, but could just be a new bug in urxvt, don't know. 2. Elbrus CPU: Ongoing issue #197 Elbrus poster gave sample of new 2C3 cpuinfo, that exposed some bugs internally in inxi Elbrus handling, I was using integer values instead of hex for model IDs in the Elbrus logic, which would fail after model 9. 3. BSD dmesg.boot: The logic used for dmesg.boot data processing had errors, and had to be fully redone because of the need to detect in a reliable way the current state of USB drives. This logic now is much more robust and reliable, and no longer relies on using 'uniq' values per line, which would fail in all kinds of situations. 4. OpenBSD USB Speeds: bugs fixed for OpenBSD speeds, these were found during the USB data refactor testing process. 5. BSDs: in some cases, wrong memory used values were being generated, this should be largely corrected now. Also pulled the weird NetBSD use of /proc/meminfo which had wrong data in it, and now use vmstat for all BSDs, which after the used bug fixes, is more reliable for BSDs. 6. All systems: CPU stepping would report as N/A if stepping 0, luckily I came across some systems with an actual stepping: 0, which are not common. 7. FreeBSD: dmidecode sourced L2 cache data failed to show correct totals in some cases. Due to no MT detection possible for FreeBSD currently, these totals will still be wrong, but now it says note; check to let users know. 8. dmidecode: some cases were getting the wrong failure error message, this bug became exposed due to OpenBSD locking /dev/mem even to root, which then failed to show the expected message. This was a bug, and is now corrected. 9. FreeBSD: partition swap size didn't show in at least some cases, that's corrected. 10. Linux Partitions: partitions would let doubled swap items through in several cases, and also failed to create in rare cases matches for hidden partition mapped id's. Finally tracked down the actual cause, when moving the partition filters I'd forgotten to add swap into the filter list, oops. But now it will catch duplicates in several different ways, so that's fine. 11. Unmounted: Failed to properly handle detecting RAID components in the case of lvm, mdraid, it was only working for zfs. This was an accident, and should now be corrected. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXES: 1. Code Folding: Note that this was NOT a bug or failure in inxi, it was a bug in scintilla/scite geany code editors with folding, basically if you commented out logic, without using a space or other marker after the comment #, folding would break in weird ways. Obviously the core scintilla engine should IGNORE the darned # commented out lines, but it doesn't, which is a real bug. But not in inxi. This was however worth working around, because without folding, you can't work on or learn how inxi works, and the only editor I know of in the free software eco-system that can handle folding reasonably accurately was until now Kwrite/Kate code editors, and those have some real, long standing, weaknesses, and bugs around folding that have never been resolved, and yes, did notify them about them, and no, they remain unfixed after years, or they were fixed briefly, then broke again. So it was important to expand the base of possible code editors to more than just the KDE stuff. Fixing this was tedious, but I think worth it. On the bright side, geany/scite folding / unfolding is FAST, and once the code issues that triggered folding failures were resolved, very accurate, much better than Kate's to be honest, though Kate isn't as picky, but Kate's unfold top nodes has been broken more often than it's worked. To avoid this issue, it's also important to configure geany/scite to use a space after the comment when using keyboard shortcuts to comment out lines/blocks. Same goes for Kate/Kwrite, by the way. 2. Battery: Forgot to add battery-force to -v7, which means you would never see the battery line in full output if there was no battery present, this is similar to how raid-forced worked, it was just an oversight which I hadn't noticed until testing the new BSD battery logic. 3. Indentation: small indentation fixes on Sound Server data. Those are visible with -y1, that is. 4. OpenBSD PCI: enabled Device matching to PCI networking device, this required an odd little hack, but seems to be pretty reliable, and allowed me to add driver to PCI device reports as well. Not sure why driver isn't in pcidump -v but it probably will be in the future. Note to self: add in support for that so if they include it in a future release, it will suddenly 'just work', assume they use the same basic syntax as usbdevs -vv output. 5. BSDs: Added in some null data protections for BSDs, which do not always have all the data types found in Linux, those would trigger Perl undefined value errors, which are warnings that inxi failed internally to test for null data in that, but it's hard to know when to do that when the data is basically always there in Linux. 6. Debugger: Added test for required Net::FTP module in debugger, had forgotten to make that test explicit, which led to odd failures. 7. BSDs: nvme detections should be better now. But I have seen no live test system to confirm the fixes work as expected, plus, at least, OpenBSD swaps nvme0 to sd0 internally, so I'm not actually sure how that data will even work, we'll see how that goes. 8. BSDs: oddly, despite using 0x hex numbers almost everywhere, for CPU stepping, the stepping is in decimal, which is even odder because CPU makers list their steppings as hex in many if not most cases. In case this is corrected in the future, if 0x appears before stepping number, will not then try to convert to hex since it already is. 9a. CPU L3: Subtle, probably won't change behaviors, but L3 cache is per physical CPU in every case I've found, so never multiply value by cores for L3. Like everything, this may lead to corner cases being wrong, but that's life, it will also lead to the data being right for most users. 9b. CPU L1: Different L1 syntaxes found so inxi now uses more loose detections, should cover most OpenBSD L1 variants at least. 10. BSDs: inxi was using internal 'sleep' right before reading /proc/cpuinfo, but that was silly for BSDs since cpu speeds there come from sysctl, so the BSD sleeps are now running before sysctl if CPU data feature is required. 11. Too many to remember, but lots of subtle message output changes to make more clear, more accurate, shorter, whatever. 12. USB: a very subtle fix, some devices can be both audio and video, like cameras, but inxi would default to the first detected. Now it checks for both before going to the list of checks, and correctly assigns a type that is both audio and video to the audio and video hashes so both features will show the USB device, not just Audio. 13: BSD: fixes for BSD ifconfig IF status, it was slicing off the full status string, like 'no network' to 'no', which is silly. Now shows full string. 14. OpenBSD: restored USB Hub ports: xx item, I hadn't realized that the data was still there with usbdevs but it required an extra -v, like: usbdevs -vv to trigger, so now the OpenBSD USB ports works fine again. 15. Fedora Xorg: updated --recommends to use the newer split apart xorg utils package names, only xrandr I think needed updating. Thanks Mr. Mazda for keeping up with that stuff! 16. OpenBSD SMART: the actual device being queried turns out to the 'c' partition, the one that represents the entire disk, NOT the main device ID, like sd0, so now inxi tacks on 'c', sd0c, when smartctl runs, and it works fine. So previously SMART report would never have worked in OpenBSD. 17. Partion labels/uuids: in Partitions and Unmounted, does not show label/uuid if fs type is ffs or if fs is a logical type one, like zfs, hammer, and remote fs mounts etc. This cleans up output, since these file system types will never have labels or uuids. 18. Mr Mazda inxi was missing data and showing errors if run in Debian Etch with Perl 5.008, and I realized I'd slipped up and had used the -k option without testing lspci version, but -k was only available in 3.0 in Lenny. But -v turns on -k automatically, so the easy solution was just to remove the -k and leave the -nnv, which is the same thing, but does not cause errors in early lspci. There are also errors with reading as root some /sys uevent files, but upon examination, those had only root write permission, so the perl -r test isn't right. Don't think that can be fixed. See Can't/Won't fix for more. Another issue I noticed was that in some cases Perl seemed to lose track of some hash values in local %trigger in OptionsHandler, and just lose them, thus leading to things like --help --version --recommends not working. Moving %trigger to globals %show and %use fixed that one, but that's weird, no idea what happened, but it works now. Tested in Sarge 3.1, where core modules have to be explicitly installed, they were not included in base Perl install. Kernel 2.4 had some key differences, different lspci syntax, different /proc/partitions, so the block device output and device output is flawed, but otherwise inxi worked fine in Sarge, from 2005! But these issues will not be corrected, kernel 2.24 is just too old, lol. inxi should always run ok in very old systems, like Etch, back to when Perl 5.8 was standard, so bugs like this are always welcome, it's easy to slip up and use something that didn't work in those old systems, then forget to test. 19. Corner case SMART errors, sometimes occur much later in output than inxi expects, this is now corrected and errors should show in smart data no matter where the main error type occured. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS: 1. Elbrus: Going along with Bug 2, Updated Elbrus microarch to use family 6, assuming models 10, 11, are the same, which they should be since 12 is the same as in family 4. 2. IPMI Sensors: More sensor syntax detections, sensors will never be stable... 3. OpenBSD: Rolled out live battery state feature, they have very good data, simple, but solid, that allows for a quality battery state report. Handles both Wh/Ah, though I am slightly suspicious of the reality of the arithmetic for Ah > Wh conversion, it seems to be too high. That's Ah * Design Voltage. But Linux battery data has the same issue, though I think in most cases, the data is in Wh, so this issue isn't BSD specific. My suspicion is that the voltages used to determine Ah may actually be slightly lower than the listed design voltage, which inxi calls min: but it's actually the design voltage. Unknown if NetBSD data is the same as OpenBSD for battery, was unable to locate any samples, so can't say, if you have a NetBSD laptop that correctly reports battery state in sysctl -a, please file an issue with some sample battery charge/voltage syntax and values, ideally from > 1 system. If the data is complete, it's easy to add support. 4a. BSD USB rev: inxi now emulates USB rev versions for BSD USB speed/rev version data. Note that this is not guaranteed to be right, because USB devices can be different rev versions than the speed they run at, but as far as I could find, the USB revision data is not available in any practical sense, unless I create a complicated recursive tool to build up a snapshot of the usb system and devices from dmesg data, but I already blew a day on that attempt, so will wait for more complete data in the usb tools in future. The rev version is based on the device/hub speed, using a standard USB rev speed mapping. But a 12 Mbps device can be rev 2, not rev 1.1, for example, that is, it's actually a USB 2.0 device, but a slow speed one. 4b. USB Type: Expanded fallback USB device type tests, these are useful for cases where it's either a vendor defined type, or for Open/NetBSD, which do not yet show USB class/subclass data. But it's a good fallback tool, added Mass Storage, expanded detections. 5. BSD Sensors: Going along with Enhancement 3, rolled out live sensors data. Confirmed working in OpenBSD and FreeBSD, not sure about NetBSD, no data, problem with vm testing is no sensors, but don't have any NetBSD hardware installs to verify. Stan gave it a good try, but could not get NetBSD running so far, maybe later. This basically means the -B and -s features are largely feature complete for the BSDs as far as practical, though due to difficulties in getting the data in a consistent clear way, some more advanced features, like gpu temps, which are now available in Linux kernel values and lm-sensors, do not yet appear to be present in the BSDs, though if this changes, the structures are in place to make updates to these logics very easy to implement now. Note that the --sensors-include and --sensors-exclude items, or config items, work fine with this BSD logic, though you have to figure out what exact syntax to use, but that's the same in Linux. 6. OpenBSD Pledge: Yes, that's right, inxi is now Pledged!!! In OpenBSD, anyway, they did a really good job, and the OpenBSD Perl packager made a very nice Perl modules, OpenBSD::Pledge, which was very easy to implement. Now I know what inxi needs to run its features!! So far OpenBSD only, but Pledge seems like a really good idea, so I figured, let's give it a spin, even if it will only currently work on OpenBSD, but that's fine, inxi is pledged as tightly as I could make it, including unpledging features not required post options processing, once inxi knows what it's actually going to be doing. Note that I'm aware of OpenBSD::Unveil, but that's a lot harder to implement due to never really being sure about what files inxi will need to be looking at until well into the logic. I may look at that in the future. 7. Bluetooth Rfkill: Due to ongoing failures in current inxi to show consistent Bluetooth hci report on Linux, added in one last fallback, rfkill state, which allows inxi to always fallback to at least that basic data. Also added in which tool is providing the report mostly, like: Report: bt-adapter ID: hci0 and so on. Also integrated into -xxx data, or for down state, the full rfkill report, since that can be quite useful. Note that bluetooth is a real pain for users to debug because you can have: * Bluetooth Service: enabled/disabled * Bluetooth Service: started/stopped * bluetoothctl: start/stop * bt-adapter: start/stop * hciconfig: start/stop * rfkill: software: block/unblock; hardware: block/unblock - however, for hardware, that means a physical button has been pressed to disable it, on the laptop that is. To make matters worse, one tool does not always even know when another tool has changed something, for example, if I rfkill blocked hci0, then unblocked it, hciconfig would keep seeing it as down until it was switched to on with hciconfig explicitly. This is I suspect one reason hciconfig is being dropped, it doesn't know how to listen to the newer tools like bluetoothctl, bt-adapter, or rfkill. 8. OpenBSD: Going along with Code Change 1, now has disk serial (doas/root), more consistent physical block size data, more reliable disk data, and for -Dxxx, duid, if available. Also added disk partition table scheme, aka MBR / GPT. Some of these new items may also work with NetBSD. See also Fix 17, SMART fix for OpenBSD. 9. OpenBSD/NetBSD/FreeBSD: the DiskDataBSD refactor now allows Unmounted partitions report. 10. OpenBSD: added in CPU MT detections using siblings data, I think only OpenBSD and Dragonfly support proper MT cpu core counts. Still no way to get physical cpu counts in OpenBSD or FreeBSD or NetBSD that I am aware of. 11. OpenBSD: added in cpu speed min/max data, that was available in most cases, didn't realize that. 12. BSDs: expanded and made more robust cpu L1/L2/L3 cache detections, now for example, OpenBSD will report its L1/L2/L3 cache without root. FreeBSD requires root since that data is coming from dmidecode. This logic update made BSD L-cache data much more reliable and consistent, and, important, easy to work with. This was directly connected to Code Changes 2 and 3, which made dealing with those data sources a lot easier. Note that L1/L2 cache data if not from OpenBSD will show note: check because it's not possible to determine if it's a multithreaded MT cpu or not, and thus if L1/L2 * core count would so often be totally wrong that inxi won't try to guess, it will just list the single value found, and tell the user to check it themselves. 13. OpenBSD: Added rcctl tool to init tools, I hadn't known about that one, that replaces the fallback default used before, /etc/rc.d. 14. RAM Vendor: Issue #245 raised the point that it would be good to try to show RAM vendor data when the manufactorer field is empty, and since that logic is already present in disk_vendor, it was just matter of researching the product IDs to find the matching patterns for the RAM vendors, the initial list is pretty good, but will need updates now and then to correct errors. Also will override only vendor ID 4 character hex value and see if it can find a better value. 15. OpenBSD RAM: data quality is decent (no vendor/product no, unfortunately). The data is often, but sadly not always, available. I'm not clear why sometimes it isn't, but since OpenBSD also defaults to blocking /dev/mem to even root user, which then blocks dmidecode, this is the only practical way to give basic RAM data for OpenBSD, so that's running fine now, when the data is available, with the added bonus of not needing doas/root. Note that due to the way that this data is present, I can have inxi deduce some things like how many arrays there are, and then guess at overall capacity, max stick size, and so on, but all Array-x: values are followed by note: est because they are never based on hard data, just extrapolations. I debated if inxi should even show the guesses, but I think by saying note: est after each Array-x: item, it's pretty clear that it's not hard data, and it does give an idea roughly. I made an initial guess at > 1 ram array but found no data samples to let me see if my guess was right or not, so > 1 array remains roughly theoretical until shown to work or not work empirically. While NetBSD sometimes has the system ram data in a similar way that OpenBSD does in dmesg.boot, it varies too much, and is too inconsistent. There are not enough data samples with good consistent data, and the samples I did see suggested that it would take too much code and convoluted logic to handle the variations, so I'm leaving this one alone. Also, NetBSD probably doesn't block /dev/mem so dmidecode should work fine. 16. Using system clang version info for OpenBSD kernel compiler, the assumption being that a BSD is an OS, so the Clang version it shipped with would be the clang version that compiled the kernel. Please correct if this is wrong. 17. OpenBSD RAID: support added for softraid, including for drive storage totals, unmounted raid component detections. Plugged in pretty smoothly, able to generate a partial report for non root, and shows message if not root. 18. VM detections upgraded, particularly for BSDs, now includes vmm, hvm, hyper-v, kvm. Not all of these would have been detected before. Also cleaned up vm logic, moved all vm detections into $dboot{'machine-vm'}, and only use the first found item. 19. Disk Vendors!!: Yes, last, but not least!! More disk vendors, vendor ID matches!! Yep. What else can I say? Eternity? Man's quest for something that cannot be found, yet these strivings never cease, here manifested by always new vendors and ID matches! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTATION: 1. Very significant ongoing upgrades to the docs in inxi-perl/docs/, particularly in inxi-values.txt, inxi-resources.txt, and inxi-data.txt. These are now increasingly useful, and I am trying to keep in particular inxi-values.txt up to date as a primary reference for various features, though it will always lag, because that's how it is, lol. 2. Cleaned up changelog, made 80 cols wide for text, bars, etc, made numbered lists and headers consistent, but otherwise did not change any of the actual content. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CODE CHANGES: 1. Complete rewrite of BSD disk/partition data tools, now there is one core tool that generates a mega-disk/partition hash, which is then used for all features that need partition/disk data. This worked out super well, and allowed new features like BSD Unmounted disk data to be generated for the first time ever, along with filling in various block device fields that were missing before. 2. Change 1 also went along with a refactor of dmesg data tool for BSDs, which allowed for much more granular data generation, along with a complex %dboot hash which stores all sub types as well as the main full dataset. This allowed inxi to stop looping through all of dmesg data each time a feature needed it. Now all the data types are assigned if required by a feature, and only then. This, along with change 1, worked really well. See also Bug 3, which mandated completely changing how dmesg.boot and dmesg live data were / are merged, the result is far more robust now, and far less prone to error. 3. Similar to dmesg changes, used same methods for sysctl data, now all the data is assigned to %sysctl data structure based on if needed or not, so it only does the assignments one time, in one location. Much cleaner code this way, and allows for testing set/unset substructures, like $sysctl{'cpu'}. 4. The %dboot and %sysctl refactors went so well that I switched the core USB and Devices to also use %usb and %devices structures. These updates let me dump a lot of global hashes and arrays, and leaned everything down a lot, and also removed basically all the testing loops for these data types, now the Item features just test to see if a reference to the specific type exists, if it does, it has data, if not, it doesn't, this is a lot easier to manage. 5. Ongoing: moving related subroutines to Packages, the goal is to have pretty much all related subroutines (functions) contained in parent classes/packages, makes it easier to maintain. 6. Ongoing: making all internal package tools have similar sub names, getting rid of the specific names for output and data generator functions. This makes each Item Generator increasingly like all the others, as much as practical. 7. A big one, renamed all the feature generators to be XxxxxItem, instead of XxxxData, which was colliding as a package name with actual data generator tools, now all the Feature generators are [Feature]Item, and all the Data generators have Data type names where relevant. This avoided in particular the silly case where I was relying on case to differentiate UsbData and USBData, feature vs data generator. 8. As part of the move to data hash global structures, also moved as many of the top global scalars and hashes and arrays to these now much more heavily utilized global hashes, like %alerts, %use, %fake, %force, and so on. There are now far fewer globals running than before, and where it makes sense, I keep moving them into global hashes, and giving the global hashes more work to do. 9. Significantly expanded list of debuggers for specific data types always available, see docs/inxi-values.txt for list of options there. Decided for rapid development, it was too much of a pain to always be uncommenting the debuggers, so now am uncommenting, adding to @dbg supported items, then documenting. I guess this means the @dbg items are more or less stable and consistent now, give or take. 10. Refactored UsbData and DeviceData, for in particular the BSDs, to be much more robust and to rely less on very fragile regex parsing patterns, takes more lines of code, but better than having the detections break every other BSD release. This was part of the %device and %usb refactors as well. 11. Fixed system_files() too, which was really silly logic, it used a global packed hash of system files, then would do a function call for the paths when required, which was redundant since the values were already in a hash which could be used directly. This was a throwback to inxi gawk/bash, where hashes were not really used in this way, and the logic had been translated to Perl without thinking about it, but once I thought about it, I realized how silly that was. This must have knocked off a good 50 or more unnecessary, and always expensive, function calls.	2021-04-16 20:41:58 -07:00
Harald Hope	3d4d1f533c	Bugs!! Fixes! Spring cleaning! ... Because these are either newly created, or newly discovered, bugs, this release was pushed as early as possible to get them fixed asap. BUGS: 1. Desktop: Lumina detection had a syntax error which made it not work. This has been broken for a while. 2. Logical: if not root, and if LUKS / bcache detected, failed to load proc_partitions, which generates error on --logical --admin since the required components data was not loaded. This was an oversight. 3. The 3.3.02 ShellData refactor created a bug for console IRC, showed shell, not irc client, name, and set default shell data which also showed. 4. Console IRC tty: there was also an older bug that made -S, -G not work consistently, and there were errors that had been missed for many years in that logic. These should all be corrected, console irc out of display, or in display as root, should now show tty info, tty size in -G. FIXES: 1. Memory: restored $bsd_type block on /proc/meminfo and force NetBSD to use a corrected vmstat. This leaves that block of logic to correct the NetBSD oddities in meminfo, but it may fix future isses that popup. 2. -Sxxx man page item incorrectly said XDG_VTNR was systemd/linux, it's not, it's various things, GhostBSD has it, for example. See what you get for believing what people say! 3. Logical: added in N/A for null maj-min in --logical report. While bug 2 triggered those errors, there could be future cases where maj-min are null, like BSD lvm data etc. ENHANCEMENTS: 1. Going along with Fix 1, added '--force meminfo' in case you really want that. 2. Distro: System Base: Added TrueNAS detection. 3. Package Data: Added mport [MidnightBSD] type. That requires root to run for some odd reason, so won't see the best output if not root. CHANGES: 1. Moved logical to -v7 from -v8, it's stable enough now. CODE CHANGES: 1. Moved get_tty_number and get_tty_console_irc to ShellData:tty_number and ShellData::tty_console_irc. ShellData::tty_number was being loaded several times, added $loaded{'tty-number'} test, and made client{'tty-number'} to store value. tty_console_irc changed to console_irc_tty, which is what it gets, removed hacks and made it load once and store result in client hash. 2. Optimization: retested sub vs package::method and they run at exactly the same time, give or take, so moving more stuff into packages to make it easier to maintain.	2021-03-17 19:39:02 -07:00
Harald Hope	75433a383a	Huge upgrade!! Bug Fixes!! Refactors!!! BSDs!!! More BSDs!!! ... raspberry pi!! New Features!!! Enhanced old features!!! Did I mention bluetooth?! USB? Audio? No? well, all hugely upgraded! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BUGS: 1. Sadly, 3.3.01 went out with a bug, forgot to remove a debugger, resulted in hardcoded kernel compiler version always showing. Note that there is a new inxi-perl/docs/inxi-bugs.txt file to track such bugs, and matched to specific tagged releases so you know the line number and items to update to fix it. 2. Typo in manjaro system base match resulted in failing to report system base as expected. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ KNOWN ISSUES BUT CAN'T OR WON'T BE FIXED: 1. OpenBSD made fvwm -version output an error along with the version, and not in the normal format for standard fvwm, this is just too complicated to work around for now, though it could be in theory by creating a dedicated fvwm-oBSD item in program_values. But that kind of granularity gets too hard to track, and they are likely to change or fix this in the future anyway. Best is they just restore default -version output to what it is elsewhere, not nested in error outputs. 2. Discovered an oddity, don't know how widespread this is, but Intel SSDs take about 200 milliseconds to get the sys hwmon based drive temps, when it should take under a millisecond, this may be a similar cause as those drives having a noticeable SMART report delay, not sure. This is quite noticeable since 200 ms is about 15% of the total execution time on my test system. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FIXES: 1. For --recommends, added different rpm SUSE xdpyinfo package name. 2. Distro Data: added double term filter for lsb-release due to sometimes generating repeated names in distro. 3. Packages: fix for appimage package counts. 4. Desktop: fixed ID for some wm when no xprop installed, fallback to using @ps_cmd detections, which usually work fine. 5a. When swap used was 0, showed N/A, fixed to correctly show 0 KiB. 5b. If no swap devices found, BSDs were not correctly showing no swap data found message. Corrected. 6a. Bluetooth: Removed hcidump from debugger, in some cases, that will just hang endlessly. Also wrapped bluetoothctl and bt-adapter debugger data collection with @ps_cmd bluetooth running test. Only run if bluetooth service is running. 6b. Bluetooth: running detections have to be very strict, only bluetoothd, not bluetooth, the latter can show true when bluetoothd is not running, and did in my tests. 7. USB: with Code Change 1, found a few places where fallback usb type detections were creating false matches, which resulted in say, bluetooth devices showing up as network devices due to the presence of the word 'wireless' in the device description. These matches are all updated and revised to be more accurate and less error prone. 8. Battery: an oversight, had forgotten to have percent used of available capacity, which made Battery data hard to decipher, now it shows the percent of available total, as well as the condition percent, so it's easier to understand the data now, and hopefully more clear. 9a. OpenBSD changed usbdevs output format sometime in the latest releases, which made the delicate matching patterns fail. Updated to handle both variants. They also changed pcidump -v formatting at some point, now inxi will try to handle either. Note that usbdevs updates also work fine on NetBSD. 9b. FreeBSD also changed their pciconf output in beta 13.0, which also broke the detections completely, now checks for old and new formats. Sigh. It should not take this much work to parse tools whose output should be consistent and reliable. Luckily I ran the beta prior to this release, or all pci device detections would simply have failed, without fallback. 9c. Dragonfly BSD also changed an output format, in vmstat, that made the RAM used report fail. Since it's clearly not predictable which BSD will change support for which vmstat options, now just running vmstat without options, and then using processing logic to determine what to do with the results. 10. It turns out NetBSD is using /proc/meminfo, who would have thought? for memory data, but they use it in a weird way that could result in either negative or near 0 ram used. Added in some filters to not allow such values to print, now it tries to make an educated guess about how much ram the system is really using based on some tests. 11. Something you'd only notice if testing a lot, uptime failed when the uptime was < 1 minute, it had failed to handle the seconds only option, now it does, seconds, minutes, hours:minutes, days hours:minutes, all work. 12. Missed linsysfs type to exclude in partitons, that was a partner to linprocfs type, both are BSD types. 13. Added -ww to ps arguments, that stops the cutting width to terminal size default behavior in BSDs, an easy fix, wish I'd known about that a long time ago. 15. gpart seems to show sizes in bytes, not the expected KiB, so that's now handled internally. Hopefully that odd behavior won't randomly change in the future, sigh. 16. Fixed slim dm detection, saw instance where it's got slim.pid like normal dms, not the slim.lock which inxi was looking for, so now inxi looks for both, and we're all happy! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ENHANCEMENTS: 1. Added in something that should have been there all along, now inxi validates the man page download as well as the self, this avoids corrupted downloads breaking the man. 2. Init: added support for shepherd init system. 3. Distro Data: added support for guix distro ID; added support for NomadBSD, GhostBSD, HardenedBSD system base. GhostBSD also shows the main package version for the distro version ID, which isn't quite the same as the version you download, but it's close. Also added os-release support for BSDs, using similar tests as for linux distros, that results in nicer outputs for example for Dragonfly BSD. 4. Package Data: added guix/scratch [venom]/kiss/nix package managers. Update for slackware 15 package manager data directory relocation, now handles either legacy current or future one. 5. Repos: added scratch/kiss/nix-channels; Added GhostBSD, HardenedBSD pkg repos. 6. USB Data: added usbconfig. That's FreeBSD's, and related systems. 7. Device Data: Added pcictl support, that's NetBSD's, I thought inxi had supported that, but then I remembered last time I tried to run netBSD in a vm, I couldn't get it figured out. Now debugged and working reasonably well. 8. Raspberry Pi 3, 4: ethernet nic now detected; wifi device, which is on a special mmcnr type, now works, that stopped working in pi 3, due to the change, now it's handled cleanly. Also added support for pi bluetooth, which lives on a special serial bus, not usb. For Raspberry Pi OS, added system base detections, which are tricky. Also matched mmcnr devices to IF data, which was trickyy as well. Note that as far as I could discover, only pi puts wifi on mmcnr. 9. Bluetooth: due to deprecated nature of the fine hciconfig utility, added in support for bt-adapter, which also allows matching of bluetooth data to device data, but is very sparse in info supplied compared to hciconfig. bluetoothctl does not have enough data to show the hci device, so it's not used, since inxi can't match the bluetooth data to the device (no hci[x]). This should help the distros that are moving away from hciconfig, in particular, AUR is only way arch users can get hciconfig, which isn't ideal. 10. New tool and feature, ServiceData, this does two things, as cross platform as practical, show status of bluetooth service, this should help a lot in support people debugging bluetooth problems, since you have bluetooth enabled but down, or up, disabled, and you can also have the device itself down or up, so now it shows all that data together for when it's down, but when the device is up, it just shows the device status since the other stuff is redundant then. In -Sa, it now shows the OS service manager that inxi detected using a bunch of fallback tests, that's useful to admins who are on a machine they don't know, then you can see the service manager to use, like rc-service, systemctl, service, sv, etc. 11. Big update for -A: Sound Servers: had always been really just only ALSA, now it shows all detected sound servers, and whether they are running or not. Includes: ALSA, OSS, PipeWire, PulseAudio, sndio, JACK. Note that OSS version is a guess, might be wrong source for the version info. 12. Added USB device 'power:' item, that's in mA, not a terrible thing to have listed, -xxx. This new feature was launched cross platform, which is nice. Whether the BSD detections will break in the future of course depends on whether they change the output formats again or not. Also added in USB more chip IDs, which can be useful. For BSDs, also added in a synthetic USB rev, taken from the device/hub speeds. Yes, I know, USB 2 can have low speed, full speed, or high speed, and 1.1 can have low and full speeds, so you actually can't tell the USB revision version from the speeds, but it's close enough. 13. Made all USB/Device data the same syntax and order, more predictable, bus, chip, class IDs all the same now. 14. Added in support for hammer and null/nullfs file system types, which trigger 'logical:' type device in partitions, that's also more correct than the source: Err-102 that used to show, which was really just a flag to alert me visibly that the partition type detection had simply failed internally. Now for detected types, like zfs tank/name or null/nullfs, it knows they are logical structures. 15. Expanded BSD CPU data, where available, now can show L1/L2/ L3 cache, cpu arch, stepping, family/model ids, etc, which is kind of nifty, although, again, delicate fragile rules that will probably break in the future, but easier to fix now. 16. By an old request, added full native BSD doas support. That's a nice little tool, and it plugged in fairly seamlessly to existing sudo support. Both the internal doas/sudo stuff should work the same, and the detection of sudo/doas start should work the same too. 17a. Shell/Parent Data: Big refactor of the shell start/parent logic, into ShellData which helped resolve some issues with running-in showing shell name, not vt terminal or program name. Cause of that is lots of levels of parents before inxi could reach the actual program that was running inxi. Solution was to change to a longer loop, and let it iterate 8 times, until it finds something that is not a shell or sudo/doas/su type parent, this seems to work quite well, you can only make it fail now if you actually try to do it on purpose, which is fine. This was very old logic, and carried some mistakes and redundancies that made it very hard to understand, that's cleaned up now. Also restored the old (login) value, which shows when you use your normal login account on console, some system will also now show (sudo,login) if the login user sudos inxi, but that varies system to system. 17b. BSD running-in: Some of the BSDs now support the -f flag for ps, which made the parent logic for running-in possible for BSDs, which was nice. Some still don't support it, like OpenBSD and NetBSD, but that's fine, inxi tests, and if no support detected, just shows tty number. Adding in more robust support here cleaned up some redundant logic internally as well. 17c. Updated terminal and shell ID detections, there's quite a few new terminals this year, and a new shell or two. Those are needed for more reliable detections of when the parent is NOT a shell, which is how we find what it is. 18. Added ctwm wm support, that's the new default for NetBSD, based on twm, has version numbers. 19. Upgraded BSD support for gpart and glabel data, now should catch more more often. 20. For things like zfs raid, added component size, that doesn't always work due to how zfs refers to its components, but it often does, which is better than never before. 21. To make BSD support smoother, got rid of some OpenBSD only rules, which in fact often apply to NetBSD as well. That may lead to some glitches, but overall it's better to totally stay away from OpenBSD only tests, and all BSD variant tests, and just do dynamic testing that will work when it applies, and not when it doesn't. In this case, added ftp downloader support for netBSD by removing the openBSD only flag for that item. There's a bit of a risk there in a sense since if different ftp programs with different options were to be the fallback for something else, it might get used, but that's fine, it's a corner case, better to have them all work now than to worry about weird future things. But limiting it to only BSDs should get rid of most of the problem. vmstat and optical drive still use net/openbsd specifics because it is too tricky to figure out it out in any more dynamic way. 22. For -Sxxx, added if systemd, display, virtual terminal number. Could be useful to debug subtle issues, if the user is for example not running their desktop in vt 7, the default for most systems. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHANGES: 1. Moved battery voltage to -Bx output, the voltage is quite important to know since that is the key indicator of battery state. If voltage is within .5 volts of specified minimum, shows voltage for -B since that's a prefail condition, it's getting close to death. 2. In partitions and raid, when the device was linear raid logical type layout, it said, no-raid, when it should be 'linear', that's now cleaner and more correct. 3. When running-in is a tty value, it will now show the entire tty ID, minus the '/dev/tty', this will be more precise, and also may resolve cases where tty was fully alpha, no numbers, previously inxi filtered out everything that was not a number, but that can in some tty types remove critical tty data, so now it will show: running-in: tty 2 [not changed]; tty pts/2 [adds pts/]; tty E2 [adds the E]; tty rx [would have not shown at ll before] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CODE CHANGES: NOTE: unlike the previous refactors, a lot of these changes were done to make inxi more maintainable, which means, slightly less optimized, which has been my preference in the past, but if the stuff can't be maintained, it doesn't matter how fast it runs! These changes have really enhanced the quality of the code and made it a lot easier to work with. It's also now a lot easier to add debuggers, force/fake data switches, etc, so it gets done, unlike before, when it was a pain, so it got skipped, and then caused bugs because of stray debuggers left in place, and so on. The bright side is while reading up on this, I learned that using very large subs is much more efficient than many small ones, which I've always felt was the case, and it is, so the style used internally in inxi proves to be the best one for optimizations. These refactors, ongoing, have now touched at least 1/3, almost 1/2, of the entire inxi codebase, so the stuff is getting more and more consistent and up to date, but given how old the logic is in places, there will be more refactors in the future, and maybe once the code is easier to maintain, some renewed optimizations!, if we can find anything that makes sense, like passing array/hash references back to the caller, already the first half is done, passing references to the sub/method always. The second part is started, using the Benchmark Perl module, which really speeds up testing and helps avoid pointless tweaks that do little re speed improvements. I could see with some care some areas where working on data directly via references could really speed things up, but it's hard to write and read that type of code, but it's already being done in the recursive data and output logics, and a few other places. 1. Large refactor of USBData, that was done in part to help make it work for BSDs better, but also to get it better organized. This refactor also made all the device items, like -A,-G,-N,-E use the same methods for creating USB output, previously they had used a hodgepodge of methods, some super old, it was not possible to add USB support more extensively for BSDs without this change. Also added in some fallback usb type detection tools using several large online collections of that info to see what possible matching patterns could catch more devices and correctly match them to their type, which is the primary way now that usb output per type is created. This really helps with BSDs, though BSD usb utilities suffer from less data than lsusb so they don't always get device name strings in a form where they can be readily ID'ed, but it's way better than it was before, so that's fine! Moved all previous methods of detecting if a card/device was USB into USBData itself so it would all be in one place, and easier to maintain. All USB tools now use bus_id_alpha for sorting, and all now sort as well, that was an oversight, previously the BSD usb tools were not sorted, but those have been enhanced a lot, so sorting on alpha synthetic bus ids became possible. Removed lsusb as a BSD option, it's really unreliable, and the data is different, and also varies a lot, it didn't really work at all in Dragonfly, or had strange output, so lsusb is now a linux only item. 2. Moved various booleans that were global to %force, %loaded, and some to the already present, but lightly used, %use hashes. It was getting too hard to add tests etc, which was causing bugs to happen. Yes, using hashes is slower than hardcoding in the boolean scalars, but this change was done to improve maintainability, which is starting to matter more. 3. Moved several sets of subs to new packages, again, to help with debugging and maintainability. MemoryData, redone in part to handle the oddities with NetBSD reporting of free, cached, and buffers, but really just to make it easier to work with overall. Also moved kernel parameter logic to KernelParameters, gpart logic to GpartData, glabel logic to GlabelData, ip data IpData, check_tools to CheckTools, which was also enhanced largely, and simplified, making it much easier to work with. 4. Wrapped more debugger logic in $fake{data} logic, that makes it harder to leave a debugger uncommented, now to run it, you have to trigger it with $fake{item} so the test runs, that way even if I forget to comment it out, it won't run for regular user. 5. Big update to docs in branch inxi-perl/docs, those are now much more usable for development. Updated in particular inxi-values.txt to be primary reference doc for $fake, $dbg, %force, %use, etc types and values. Also updated inxi-optimization.txt and inxi-resources.txt to bring them closer to the present. Created inxi-bugs.txt as well, which will help to know which known bugs belonged to which frozen pools. These bugs will only refer to bugs known to exist in tagged releases in frozen pool distros. 6. For sizes, moved most of the sizing to use main::translate_size, this is more predictable, though as noted, these types of changes make inxi a bit slower since it moved stuff out of inline to using quick expensive sub calls, but it's a lot easier to maintain, and that's getting to be more important to me now. 7. In order to catch live events, added in dmesg to dmesg.boot data in BSDs, that's the only way I could find to readily detect usb flash drives that were plugged in after boot. Another hack, these will all come back to bite me, but that's fine, the base is easier to work on and debug now, so if I want to spend time revisiting the next major version BSD releases, it will be easier to resolve the next sets of failures. 8. A big change, I learned about the non greedy operator for regex patterns, ?, as in, .*?(next match rule), it will now go up only to the next match rule. Not knowing this simple little thing made inxi use some really convoluted regex to avoid such greedy patterns. Still some gotchas with ?, like it ignores following rules that are zero or 1, ? type, and just treats it as zero instances. But that's easy to work with. 9. Not totally done, but now moved more to having set data tools set their $loaded{item} value in get data, not externally, that makes it easier to track the stuff. Only where it makes sense, but there's a lot of those set/get items, they should probably all become package/classes, with set/get I think. 10. Optimized reader() and grabber() and set_ps_aux_data(), all switched from using grep/map to using for loops, that means inxi doesn't have to go through each array 2x anymore, actually 4x in the case of set_ps_aux_data(). This saved a visible amount of execution time, I noticed this lag when running pinxi through NYTProf optimizer, there was a quite visible time difference between grabber/reader and the subshell time, these optimizations almost removed that difference, meaning only the subshell now really takes any time to run. Optimized url_cleaner and data_cleaner in RepoData, those now just work directy on the array references, no returns. Ran some more optimization tests, but will probably hold off on some of them, for example, using cleaner() by reference is about 50% faster than by copy, but redoing that requires adding in many copies from read only things like $1, so the change would lead to slightly less clean code, but may revisit this in the future, we'll see. But in theory, basically all the core internal tools that take a value and modify it should do that by reference purely since it's way faster, up to 10x.	2021-03-15 18:44:00 -07:00
Harald Hope	d11f2a7a89	small man fix	2021-02-08 17:15:46 -08:00
Harald Hope	2b49b32223	Bug fixes!! Fixes!!! Refactors!!! Edits!!! ... Bugs: 1. Big bug, 3.2 appears to have introduced this bug, for disks, rotation and partition scheme would never show, oops. 2. Tiny bug kept one specific smart value from ever showing, typo. Fixes: 1. Accidentally followed Arch linux derived distro page, which claims KaOS as arch derived, when of course it's not, it's its own distro, own toolchain, etc. I kind of knew this but had forgotten, then I believed the Arch derived distro page, oh well. Resulted in KaOS being listed with arch linux as system base with -Sx. Arch should fix this, it's not like it's hard, just remove the distro from the page. 2. Cleared up explanations for drivetemp vs hddtemp use, updated --recommends, man, and help to hopefully make this clear. Debian will be dropping hddtemp, which is not maintained, sometime in the coming years, sooner than later. Note that users unfortunately have to manually enable drivetemp module unless their distros enable it by default, but the man/recommands/help explain that. 3. Fixed smart indentation issues, that went along with code change 1, was failing to indent one further level for failed/age values like it's supposed to. Enhancements: 1. Added /proc/device to debugger, that will help track block device main numbers 2. More disk vendors, more disk vendor IDs!!! As noted, the enternal flow flows eternally, thanks linux-lite hardware database users!! and other inxi users, whose outputs sometimes reveal a failure or two. 3. Added loaded kernel module tests to --recommends, this was mostly to let users know that drivetemp is needed if you want non superuser fast drive temps, and that this came along with kernels 5.6 or newer. Hopefully word will start drifting out. Note that if inxi is using drivetemp values, drive temps will appear as regular user with -Dx, and will be to 1 decimal place. hddtemp temps are integers, and requires sudo to display the temps. 4. To handle issue #239 which I'd thought of trying off and on, but never did, added option to -Dxxx to show SSD if a positive SSD ID was made to rotation: So rotation will show either nothing, if no rotation or ssd data is detected, the disk speed in rpm, or SSD if an SSD device. There may be corner cases where this is wrong, but I don't have data for that, for example, if a disk is parked and has zero rotation but is a HDD, not as SSD. I don't know what the data looksl ike in that case. Note that if sudo inxi -Da is used, and smartctl is installed, it should be right almost all the time, and with regular -Dxxx, it's going to be right almost always, with a few corner cases. That slight uncertainty is why I never implemented this before. Legacy drives also sometimes did not report rotation speeds even when HDD, so those may create issues, but inxi will only call it an SSD if it's an nvme, mmcblk device, both are easy to ID as SSD, or if it meets certain conditions. It will not call a drive an SSD if it was unable to meet those conditions. INTERNAL CODE CHANGES: 1. Refactored the output logic for DiskData, that was messy, split it into a few subs, and also refactored the way smartctl data was loaded and used, that's much cleaner and easier to use now. Split the previous 1 big sub into: totals_output(), drives_output(), and smart_output(). Also split out the smart field arrays into a separate sub, which loads references to avoid creating new arrays and copying them all over when outputting smart data. References are weird to work with directly but they are MUCH faster to use, so I'm moving as much of the internal logic to use array raferences instead of dereferenced arrays/hashes assigned to a new array, or hash. 2. Redid all the output modules and renamed them to be more consistent and predictable, and redid the logic here and there to make the get() items be fairly similar on all the data builder packages. Now as with the data subs, which generally end in _data, now most of the output subs end with _output. 3. Roughly finished the process started in 3.2, got rid of redundant array loads, changed: @something = something_data(); push (@rows,@something); to: push (@rows,something_data()); which avoids creating an extra array, this also let me remove many arrays overall. 4. Missed a few hashes in machine data that were being passed directly, not as references, to other subs, corrected that. I think I missed those because they were %, so the search I did for @ in sub arg lists didn't catch the % hashes.	2021-02-08 17:07:34 -08:00
Harald Hope	a68b1e8358	Bug fixes!! New Feature!! Edits, cleanups!! ... Bugs: 1. Small bug, wrong regex would make mdraid unused report never show. Was looking for ^used, not ^unused. No idea how that happened, but it's fixed. 2. Big RAID bug. Due to never having seen an 'inactive' state mdraid dataset, inxi had a bunch of bugs around that. I'd assumed active and inactive would have roughly the same syntax, but they don't. This is now corrected. Thanks Solus user for giving me the required data. This case when not corrected resulted in a spray of errors as RAID ran, and a fairly incomplete RAID report for mdraid. 3. A bug that probably never impacted anyone, but in SMART the matching rules failed to match field name Size[s]? in the logical/physical block sizes. However, those were already coming in from I believe pre-existing /sys data for the drives but now it's fixed anyway. I had not realized that smartctl made it plural when logical/physical were different, and singular when they were the same. Fixes: 1. Going along with bug 2, fixed some other admin/non admin report glitches. Made patterns more aggressively matching, whitelist based to avoid the types of syntax issues that caused bug 2. 2. Added 'faulty' type to mdraid matches, that had not been handled. 3. Found even more of those pesky 'card' references in help and man page, replaced all of them with 'device[s]'. 4. Subtle fix, for debugger data collectors, added -y1 support, which can be useful at times. Enhancements: 1. In USB data grabber, added fallback case for unspecified type cases, now uses a simple name/driver string test to determine if it's graphics, audio, or bluetooth. This was mainly to make sure bluetooth usb devices get caught. 2. New feature! -E/--bluetooth. Gives an -n like bluetooth Device-x/Report. Requires for the 'Report:' part hciconfig, which most all distros still have in their repos. With -a, shows an additional Info: line that has more obscure bluetooth hci data: acl-mtu sco-mtu, link-policy, link-mode, service-classes. This closes the ancient, venerable issue #79, filed by mikaela so many years ago. Better late than never!! However, features like this were really difficult in legacy bash/gawk inxi 2.x, and became fairly easy with inxi 3.x, so I guess we'll slowly whittle away at these things when the mood, and global pandemic lockdowns, make that seem like a good idea... Includes a small lookup table to match LMP number to Bluetooth version (bt-v:), hopefully that's a correct way to determine bluetooth version, there was some ambiguity about that. -x, -xx, and -xxx function pretty much the same way as with -A, -G, and -N devices, adding Chip IDs, Bus IDs, version info, and so on. Since this bluetooth report does not require root and is an upper case option, it's been added to default -F, similar to -R, and -v 5, where raid/bluetooth shows only if data is found. With -v7 or -R or -E, always shows, including no data found message. Includes a fallback report Report-ID: case where for some reason, inxi could not match the HCI ID with the device. That's similar to IF-ID in -n, which does the same when some of the IFs could not be matched to a specific device. 3. For -A, -G, -N, and -E, new item for -xxx, classID, I realized this is actually useful for many cases of trying to figure out what devices are, though most users would not know what to do with that information, but that's why it's an -xxx option! 4. Yes! You've been paying attention!! More disk vendors, and new vendor IDs!! The cornucopia flows its endless bounty over the grateful data collector, and, hopefully, inxi users!! Thanks as always, linux-lite hardware database, and linux-lite users who really seem set on the impossible project of obtaining all the disks/vendors known to man. Changes: 1. Small change in wording for mdraid report: 'System supported mdraid' becomes 'Supported mdraid levels' which is cleaner and much more precise.	2021-01-28 20:02:42 -08:00
Harald Hope	1e2d470c69	That damned Kate editor bug where it randomly sprays out characters ... that were in the desktop clipboard caused 3 random pastes of the characters 'failed' into the man page. Kate needs to get their damned crap in order!!! It's becoming unusable.	2021-01-13 17:32:13 -08:00
Harald Hope	6e4cd28791	New version, man page, bug fixes, changes, adjustments and cleanups!!! ... Special thanks to mr. mazda for his ongoing suggestions, ideas, and observations. Bugs: 1. In certain corner cases, it appears that lsusb has blank lines, which tripped errors in inxi output when the usb parser was trying to access split keys that did not exist. Added in check to make sure split actually resulted in expected data. 2. A red face bug, I'd left the output debugger switched on with json output, so it was printing out the json data structure with Dumper, that's now switched off. Hope this doesn't mess anyone up, but it would have mattered only if the person was using: --output json --output-type print It did not effect xml output. Fixes: 1. Got rid of extra level of -L data structure and output handler. Not visible to users, but still irksome, so nice to get that fixed. Recursive structures are confusing, lol, but this extra level was pointless, but to fix it required redoing the logic a bit for both data generator and output feature. 2. Added in support for --display :0.0, previously it did not support the .0 addition, but why not, if it works for people, good, if not, makes no difference. 3. There were some missing cases for LVM missing data messages, so the following fixes were added: * In cases where lsblk is installed and user is non root, or lvs is not installed, but no lvm data is present, inxi now shows the expected 'Message: No LVM data found.' instead of the permissions or missing program error that showed before. If lsblk is not installed, and lvm is installed (or missing), with lvs not root readable, the permissiosn message (or missing program) will show since at that point, inxi has no way to know if there is lvm data or not. * Not an inxi, but rather an Arch Linux packaging bug, the maintainer of lvm has made lvs and vgs fail to return error number on non root start, which is a bug (pvs does return expected error return). Rather than wait for this bug to be fixed, inxi will just test if lvs and lsblk lvm data, it will show permissions message, otherwse the no lvm data message as expected. I think these cover the last unhandled LVM cases I came across, so ideally, the lvm data messages will be reasonably correct. 4. Some man page lintian fixes. 5. Changed usb data parser to use 'unless' instead of 'if' in tests since it's easier to read unless positive tests are true than if negative or negative etc. Enhancements: 1. Since I see too often things like -F --no-host -z which is redundant, the help and man now make it more clear that -z implies --no-host. 2. Even though it's not that pointful, I added in derived Arch Linux system base like Ubuntu/Debian have. It's not that meaningful because unlike Ubuntu/Debian, where you want to know what version the derived distro is based on, Arch is rolling thus no versions, but I figured, why not, it's easy to do, so might as well make the system base feature a bit more complete. Note that the way I did this requires that the distro is ID'ed as its derived distro nanme, not Arch Linux, that will vary depending on how they did their os-release etc, or distro files, but that's not really an inxi issue, that's up to them. From what I've been seeing, it looks like more of the derived distros are being ID'ed in inxi as the derived name, so those should all work fine. Note that seeing 'base:' requires -Sx. 3. More disk vendors!! More disk vendor IDs!!! I really dug into the stuff, and refactored slightly the backend tools I use, so it's now a bit easier to handle the data. Thanks linux-lite hardware database, as always, for having users that really seemt to use every disk variant known to humanity. Changes: 1. In -G, made FAILED: lower case, and also moved it to be after unloaded: It was too easy to think that the loaded driver had failed. Also to make it more explicit, made output like this, in other words, driver: is a container for the possible children: loaded: unloaded: failed: alternate: which should be easier to parse and read without mixing up what belongs to what. driver: loaded: modesetting unloaded: nouvean,vesa alternate: nv driver: loaded: amdgpu unloaded: vesa failed: ati Note that if there is no unloaded: driver, failed: would still appear to come after loaded:, but hopefully it's more clear now. Basically what we found was that the presence of the uppercase FAILED: drew the eye so much that it was sometimes not noted that it was a key: following the driver: item, which itself because it did not list explicitly loaded: was not as clear as it could have been. By making failed: the same as the other key names visually, hopefully it will be less easy to think that the loaded: driver failed: In a sense, this is a legacy issue, because the original use of FAILED: was for non free video drivers, to see when xorg had failed to load them, but over more recent years, the most frequent thing I have been seeing is odd things like failed: ati, when xorg tries to load the legacy ati driver when amdgpu is being used. 2. Likewise, for RAID mdraid and zfs changed FAILED: to Failed:, again, to make it more consistent with the other types. 3. In help menu and man page, removed legacy 'card(s)' in -A, -G, -N, and replaced that with 'device(s)', which is the more accurate term, since the days when these things were only addon cards are long behind us. I had not noticed that, but it caught me eye and I realized it was a very deprecated and obsolete syntax, which did not match the way inxi describes devices today. 4. It was pointed out how incoherent the naming of the item for setting wrap width, --indent-min and config item INDENT_MIN were super confusing, since it was neither indent or minimum, it was in fact wrap maximum, so the new options and config items are --wrap-max and WRAP_MAX. Note that the legacy values will keep working, but it was almost impossible in words to explain this option because the option text was almost the exact opposite of what the option actually does. Redid the man and help explanations to make the function of this option/config item more clear. 5. Made -J/--usb Hub-xx: to fit with other repeating device types in inxi output, before Hub: was not numbered, but it struck me, it should be, like all the other auto-incremented counter line starters, like ID-xx:, Device-x:, and so on. 6. Reorganized the main help menu to hopefully be more logical, now it shows the primary output triggers, then after, the extra data items, -a, -x, -xx, -xxx, separated by white space per type to make it easier to read. This also moved the stuff that had been under the -x items back to where they should be, together with the main output control options. For readability and usability, I think this will help, the help menu is really long, so the more visual cues it has to make it clear what each section is, the better I think. Previously -a was the first items, then way further down was -x, -xx, and -xxx, then under those was -z, -Z, -y.	2021-01-10 19:20:21 -08:00
Harald Hope	df45e6d4ae	Bug Fixes!!! Continuing internal refactor!! ... This bug report came in right after 3.2.00 went out live, but I would never have found it myself in testing so better found than not found! Bugs: 1. A bug was introduced to dmidecode data handlers in 3.2.00 resulted in the dmidecode data array basically eating itself up until errors appear. Quite difficult to trigger, but babydr from Slackware forums figured it out, using -F --dmidecode to force dmidecode use for all features that support it triggered thee bug always. This was a result of the refactor, previously inxi had worked on copies of referenced arrays, but in this case, it was working on the original array of arrays, subtle, but obvious. This method was only used on dmidecode arrays. 2. A second bug was exposed almost by accident, for -M --dmidecode data, there was a missing field and also a missing is set test on that field that led to an error of using undefined value in string comparison. This was strictly speaking 2 bugs, both very old, from 2.9 first rewrite, one failing to set/get the value, and the other failing to test if the value was set before using it. Fixes: 1. There were a few glitches in help menu and man page related to -L option, those are corrected. INTERNAL CODE CHANGES: 1. removed bug inducing splice use in some cases, and added parens to splice to make it fit the new way of with perl builtins, when taking 2 or more arguments, use parens. 2. Found many more instances to add -> dereferencing operator. I have to say, not doing that consistently made the code much harder to read, and created situations where it's somewhat ambiguous what item belongs to what, with everything consistently -> operator run, the code is more clear and obvious, and some of the hacks I'd added because of the lack of clarity were also removed. 3. Removed explicit setting of hash references with null value, that was done out of failure to use -> operators which clearly indicate to Perl and coder what is happening, so those crutches were removed. Also got rid of unnecessary array priming like: my @array = (); Some of these habits came from other languages, but in Perl, declaring my @array means it's an array that is null, and you don't need to do a further (). @array = () is obviously fine for resetting arrays in loops or whatever, but not in the initial declaration.	2020-12-17 14:51:11 -08:00
Harald Hope	5234e3903d	Huge upgrade, major rewrite/refactor, new features, everything is polished!!! ... Note that due to large number of internal changes to code, a separate INTERNAL CODE CHANGES section is at the bottom. Those are changes which in general do not impact what users see that much, but which definitely impact working on and with inxi! They also make errors less likely, and removed many possible bad data error situations. BUGS: 1. Obscure, but very old Tyan Mobo used a form of dmidecode data for RAM that I'd never gotten a dataset for before, this tripped a series of errors in inxi, which were actually caused by small errors and failures to check certain things, as well as simply never assigning data in corner cases. This system used only dmi handles 6 and 7, which is a very rare setup, from the very early days of dmi data being settled, but it was valid data, and actually inxi was supposed to support it, because I'd never gotten a dataset containing such legacy hardware data, the support didn't work. There were actually several bugs discovered while tracking this down, all were corrected. 2. Going along with the cpu fixes below, there was a bug that if stepping was 0, stepping would not show. I had not realized stepping could be 0, so did a true/false test instead of a defined test, which makes 0 in perl always test as false. This is corrected. 3. While going through code, discovered that missing second argument to main::grabber would have made glabel tool (BSD I think mostly) always fail, without exception. That explains why bsd systems were never getting glabel data, heh. 4. Many null get_size tests would not have worked because they were testing for null array but ('','') was actually being returned, which is not a null array. The testing and results for get_size were quite random, now hey are all the same and consistent, and confirmed correct. 5. In unmounted devices, the match sent to @lsblk to get extended device data would never work with dm-xx type names, failed to translate them to their mapped name, which is what is used in lsblk matches, this is corrected. This could lead to failures to match fs of members of luks, raid, etc, particularly noticeable with complex logical device structures. This means the fallback filters against internal logic volume names, various file system type matches, would always fail. 6. A small host of further bugs found and fixed during the major refactor, but not all of them were noted, they were just fixed, sorry, those will be lost to history unless you compare with diffs the two versions, but that's thousands of lines, but there were more bugs fixed than listed above, just can't remember them all. FIXES: 1. There was some ambiguity about when inxi falls back to showing hardware graphics driver instead of xorg gfx driver when it can't find an xorg driver. That can happen for instance because of wayland, or because of obscure xorg drivers not yet supported. Now the message is very clear, it says the gfx software driver is n/a, and that it's showing the hardware gfx driver. 2. Big redo of cpu microarch, finally handled cases where same stepping/model ID has two micorarches listed, now that is shown clearly to users, like AMD Zen family 17, model 18, which can be either Zen or Zen+, so now it shows that ambiguity, and a comment: note: check, like it shows for ram report when it's not sure. Shows for instance: arch: Zen/Zen+ note: check in such cases, in other words, it tells users that the naming convention basically changed during the same hardware/die cycle. 3. There were some raid component errors in the unmounted tests which is supposed to test the raid components and remove them from the mounted list. Note that inxi now also tests better if something is a raid component, or an lvm component, or various other things, so unmounted will be right more often now, though it's still not perfect since there are still more unhandled logical storage components that will show as unmounted when tney are parts of logical volumes. Bit by bit!! 4. Part of a significant android fine tuning and fix series, for -P, android uses different default names for partitions, so none showed, now a subset of standard android partitions, like /System, /firmware, etc, shows. Android will never work well though because google keeps locking down key file read/search permissions in /sys and /proc. 5. More ARM device detections, that got tuned quite a bit and cleaned up, for instance, it was doing case sensitive checks, but found cases where the value is all upper case, so it was missing it. Now it does case sensitive device type searches. 6. One of the oldest glitches in inxi was the failure to take the size of the raid arrays versus the size totals of the raid array components led to Local Storage results that were uselessly wrong, being based on what is now called 'raw' disk totals, that's the raw physical total of all system disks. Now if raid is detected the old total: used:... is expanded to: total: raw:... usable:....used:, the usable being the actual disk space that can be used to store data. Also in the case of LVM systems, a further item is added, lvm-free: to report the unused but available volume group space, that is, space not currently taken by logical volumes. This can provide a useful overview of your system storage, and is much improved over the previous version, which was technically unable to solve that issue because the internal structures did not support it, now they do. LVM data requires sudo/ root unfortunately, so you will see different disk raw totals depending on if it's root or not if there is LVM RAID running. Sample: inxi -D Drives: Local Storage: total: raw: 340.19 GiB usable: 276.38 GiB lvm-free: 84.61 GiB used: 8.49 GiB (3.1%) lvm-free is non assigned volume group size, that is, size not assigned to a logical volume in the volume group, but available in the volume group. raw: is the total of all detected block devices, usable is how much of that can be used in file systems, that is, raid is > 1 devices, but those devices are not available for storage, only the total of the raid volume is. Note that if you are not using LVM, you will never see lvm-free:. 7. An anonymous user sent a dataset that contained a reasonable alternate syntax for sensors output, that made inxi fail to get the sensors data. That was prepending 'T' to temp items, and 'F' to fan items, which made enough sense though I'd never seen it before, so inxi now supports that alternate sensors temp/fan syntax, so that should expand the systems it supports by default out of the box. 8. Finally was able to resolve a long standing issue of loading File::Find, which is only used in --debug 20-22 debugger, from top of inxi to require load in the debugger. I'd tried to fix this before, but failed, the problem is that redhat /fedora have broken apart Perl core modules, and made some of them into external modules, which made inxi fail to start due to missing use of required module that was not really required. Thanks to mrmazda for pointing this out to me, I'd tried to get this working before but failed, but this time I figured out how to recode some of the uses of File::Find so it would work when loaded without the package debugger, hard to figure it, turned out a specific sub routine call in that specific case required the parentheses that had been left off, very subtle. 9. Subtle issue, unlike most of the other device data processors, the USB data parser did not use the remove duplicates tool, which led in some cases to duplicated company names in the output for USB, which looks silly. 10. Somehow devtmpfs was not being detected in all cases to remove that from partitions report, that was added to the file systen filters to make sure it gets caught. 11. Removed LVM image/meta/data data slices from unmounted report, those are LVM items, but they are internal LVM volumes, not available or usable. I believe there are other data/meta type variants for different LVM features but I have added as many types as I could find.. Also explictly now remove any _member type item, which is always part of some other logical structure, like RAID or LVM, those were not explicitly handled before. 12. Corrected the varous terms ZFS can use for spare drives, and due to how those describe slightly different situations than simply spare, changed the spare section header to Available, which is more accureate for ZFS. ENHANCEMENTS: 1. Going along with FIX 2 is updating and adding to intel, elbrus microarch family/ model/stepping IDs (E8C2), so that is fairly up to date now. 2. Added in a very crude and highly unreliable default fallback for intel: /sys/devices/cpu/caps/pmu_name which will show the basic internal name used which can be quite different from what the actual microarch name is, but the hope is that for new intel cpus that come out after these last inxi updates, something may show, instead of nothing. Note these names are often much more generic, like using skylake for many different microarches. 3. More android enhancements, for androids that allow reading of /system/build.prop, which is a very useful informative system info file, more android data will show, like the device name and variant, and a few other specialized items. You can see if your android device lets inxi read build.prop if you see under -S Distro: Android 7.1 (2016-07-23) or just Android. If it shows just android, that means it can't read that file. Showing Android however is also new, since while inxi can't always read build.prop if that file is there, it's android, so inxi finally can recognize it's in android, even though it can't give much info if it's locked down. Inxi in fact did not previously know it was running in android, which is quite different from ARM systems in some ways, but now it does. If the data is available, it will be used in Distro: and in Machine: data to add more information about the android version and device. 4. A big one, for -p/-P/-o/-j now shows with -x the mapped device name, not just the /dev/dm-xx ID, which makes connecting the various new bits easier, for RAID, Logical reports. Note that /dev/mapper/ is removed from the mapped name since that's redundant and verbose and makes the output harder to read. For mapped devices, the new --logical / -L report lets you drill into the devices to find out what dm-xx is actually based on, though that is a limited feature which only supports drilling to a depth of 2 components/devices, there can be more, particularly for bcache, luks setups, but it's just too hard to code that level of depth, so something is better than nothing in this case, which is the actual choice I was faced, the perfect in this case really is/was the enemy of the good, as they say. 5. More big ones, for -a -p/-P/-o/-j shows kernel device major:minor number, which again lets you trace each device around the system and report. 6. Added mdadm if root for mdraid report, that let me add a few other details for mdraid not previously available. This added item 'state;' to the mdraid report with right -x options. 7. Added vpu component type to ARM gfx device type detection, don't know how video processing vcu had escaped my notice. 8. Added fio[a-z] block device, I'd never heard of that before, but saw use of it in dataset, so learned it's real, but was never handled as a valid block device type before, like sda, hda, vda, nvme, mmcblk, etc. fio works the same, it's fio + [a-z] + [0-9]+ partition number. 9. Expanded to alternate syntax Elbrus cpu L1, L2, L3 reporting. Note that in their nomenclature, L0 and L1 are actually both L1, so add those together when detected. 10. RAM, thanks to a Mint user, antikythera, learned, and handled something new, module 'speed:' vs module 'configured clock speed:'. To quote from supermicro: <<< Question: Under dmidecode, my 'Configured Clock Speed' is lower than my 'Speed'. What does each term mean and why are they not the same? Answer: Under dmidecode, Speed is the expected speed of the memory (what is advertised on the memory spec sheet) and Configured Clock Speed is what the actual speed is now. The cause could be many things but the main possibilities are mismatching memory and using a CPU that doesn't support your expected memory clock speed. Please use only one type of memory and make sure that your CPU supports your memory. >>> 11. Since RAM was gettng a look, also changed cases where ddr ram speed is reported in MHz, now it will show the speeds as: [speed * 2] MT/S ([speed] MHz). This will let users make apples to apples speed comparisons between different systems. Since MT/S is largely standard now, there's no need to translate that to MHz. 12. And, even more!! When RAM speeds are logically absurd, adds in note: check This is from a real user's data by the way, as you can see, it triggers all the new RAM per Device report features. Sample: Memory: RAM: total: 31.38 GiB used: 20.65 GiB (65.8%) Array-1: capacity: N/A slots: 4 note: check EC: N/A Device-1: DIMM_A1 size: 8 GiB speed: 1600 MT/s (800 MHz) Device-2: DIMM_A2 size: 8 GiB speed: spec: 1600 MT/s (800 MHz) actual: 61910 MT/s (30955 MHz) note: check Device-3: DIMM_B1 size: 8 GiB speed: 1600 MT/s (800 MHz) Device-4: DIMM_B2 size: 8 GiB speed: spec: 1600 MT/s (800 MHz) actual: 2 MT/s (1 MHz) note: check 13. More disks vendor!!! More disk vendor IDs!!! Yes, that's right, eternity exists, here, now, and manifests every day!! Thanks to linux-lite hardware database for this eternally generating list. Never underestimate the creativity of mankind to make more disk drive companies, and to release new model IDs for existing companies. Yes, I feel that this is a metaphore for something much larger, but what that is, I'm not entirely clear about. CHANGES: 1. Recent kernel changes have added a lot more sensor data in /sys, although this varies system to system, but now, if your system supports it, you can get at least partial hdd temp reports without needing hddtemp or root. Early results suggest that nvme may have better support than spinning disks, but it really varies. inxi will now look for the /sys based temp first, then fall back to the much slower and root / sudo only hddtemp. You can force hddtemp always with --hddtemp option, which has a corresponding configuration item. 2. The long requested and awaited yet arcane and obscure feature -L/--logical, which tries to give a reasonably good report on LVM, LUKS, VeraCrypt, as well as handling LVM raid, both regular and thin, is now working, more or less. This took a lot of testing and will probably not be reasonably complete for a while, mainly because the levels of abstraction possible between lvm, lvm raid, mdraid, LUKS, bcache, and other caching and other encryption options are just too deep to allow for easy handling, or easy outputs. But a very solid and good start in my view, going from nothing to something is always a big improvement!! LVM reports require root/sudo. This will, finally, close issue #135. 3. Going along with -L, and serving as a model for the logic of -L, was the complete refactor of -R, RAID, which was a real mess internally, definitely one of the messiest and hardest to work with features of inxi before the refactor. It's now completely cleaned up and modularized, and is easy to add raid types, which was not possible before, now it cleanly supports zfs, mdraid, and lvm raid, with in depth reports and added items like mdraid size, raid component device sizes and maj:min numbers if the -a option is used. Note that LVM RAID requires root/sudo. 4. Added some more sensors dimm, volts items, slight expansion. Note that the possible expansion of sensors made possible by the recently upgraded sensors output logic, as well as the new inxi internal sensors data structure, which is far more granular than the previous version, and allows for much more fine grained control and output, though only gpu data currently takes advantage of this new power under the covers, although as noted, the /sys based hdd temps use the same source, only straight from /sys, since it was actually easier using the data directly from sys than trying to map the drive locations to specific drives in sensors output. Well, to be accurate, since now only board type sensors are used for the temp/fan speed, voltage, etc, reports, the removal of entire sensor groups means less chance of wrong results. 5. To bring the ancient RAID logic to fit the rest of inxi style, made zfs, mdraid, and lvm raid components use incrementing numbers, like cpu cores does. This got rid of the kind of ugly hacks used previously which were not the same for zfs or mdraid, but now they are all the same, except that the numbers for mdraid are the actual device numbers that mdraid supplies, and the LVM and ZFS numbers are just autoincremented, starting at 1. 6. Changed message <root/superuser required> to <superuser required> because it's shorter and communicates the same thing. INTERNAL CODE CHANGES: 1. Small, transparent test, tested on Perl 5.032 for Perl 7 compatibility. All tests passed, no legacy code issues in inxi as of now. 2. Although most users won't notice, a big chunk of inxi was refactored internally, which is why the new -L, the revamped -R, and the fixed disk totals finally all can work now. This may hopefully result in more consistent output and fewer oddities and randomnesses, since more of the methods all use the same tools now under the covers. Ths refactor also significantly improved inxi's execution speed, by about 4-5%, but most of those gains are not visible due to the added new features, but the end result is new inxi runs roughly the same speed as pre 3.2.00 inxi, but does more, and does it better, internally at least. If you have a very good eye you may also note a few places where this manifests externally as well. Last I checked about 10-12% of the lines of inxi had been changed, but I think that number is higher now. Everything that could be optimized was, everything could be made more efficient was. 3. Several core tools in inxi were expanded to work much more cleanly, like reader(), which now supports returning just the index value you want, that always happened on the caller end before, which led to extra code. get_size likewise was expanded to do a string return, which let me remove a lot of internal redundant code in creating the size unit output, like 32 MiB. uniq() was also redone to work exclusively by reference. 4. Many bad reference and dereference practices that had slipped into inxi from the start are mostly corrected now, array assignments use push now, rather than assign to array, then add array to another array, and assign those to the master array. Several unnecessary and cpu/ram intensive copying steps, that is, were removed in many locations internally in inxi. Also now inxi uses more direct anonymous array and hash refernce assignments, which again removes redundant array/hash creation, copy, and assignment. 5. Also added explicit -> dereferencing arrows to make the code more clear and readable, and to make it easier for perl to know what is happening. The lack of consistency actually created confusion, I was not aware of what certain code was doing, and didn't realize it was doing the same thing as other code because of using different methods and syntaxes for referencing array/hash components. I probably missed some, but I got many of them, most probably. 6. Instituted a new perl builtin sub routine rule which is: if the sub takes 2 or more arguments, always put in parentheses, it makes the code much easier to follow because you see the closing ), like: push(@rows,@row); Most perl builtins that take only one arg do not use parentheses, except length, which just looks weird when used in math tests, that is: length($var) > 13 looks better than length $var > 13. This resolved inconsistent uses that had grown over time, so now all the main builtins follow these rules consistently internally. Due to certain style elements, and the time required to carefully go through all these rules, grep and map do not yet consistently use these rules, that's because the tendency has been to use the grep {..test..} @array and map {...actions...} @array 7. Mainly to deal with android failures to read standard system files due to google locking it down, moved most file queries to use -r, is readable, rather than -e, exists, or -f, is file, unless it only needs to know if it exists, of course. This fixed many null data errors in android even on locked androids. 8. Added in %mapper and %dmmapper hashes to allow for easy mapping and unmapping of mapped block devices. Got rid of other ways of doing that, and made it consistent throughout inxi. These are globals that load once. 9. Learned that perl builtin split() has a very strange and in my view originally terrible decision that involves treating as regex rules string characters in split string, like split('^^',$string), which should logically be a string value, not a ^ start search followed by a ^, but that's how it is, so that was carefully checked and made consistent as well. Also expanded split to take advantage of the number of splits to do, which I had only used occasionally before, but only updated field/value splits where I have a good idea of what the data is. This is very useful when the data is in the form of field: value, but value can contain : as well. You have to be very careful however, since some data we do want in fact the 2nd split, but not the subsequent ones, so I only updated the ones I was very sure about. 10. Going along with the cpu microarch fixes, updated and cleaned up all the lists of model/stepping matches, now they are all in order and much easier to scan and find, that had gotten sloppy over the years. 11. More ARM, moved dummy and codec device values into their own storage arrays, that let me remove the filters against those in the other detections. Makes logic easier to read and maintain as well.	2020-12-15 15:13:14 -08:00
Harald Hope	f30d907c4c	man page fix	2020-11-11 15:45:10 -08:00
Harald Hope	285c6f715f	Bug fixes, new features!! Update now!! Or don't, it's up to you. ... Bugs: 1. Let's call some of the android fixes and debugger failures bugs, why not? Those are fixed. Note that many of these fixes will impact any system that is ARM based, not just android. Fixes: 1. Related to issue #226 which was a fine issue, fine tuned the debugger debuggers to allow for smoother handling of /sys parse failures. Also added debugger filters for common items that would make the /sys parser hang, oddly, most seem to be in /sys/power for android devices. 2. Added some finetunings for possible mmcblk storage paths, in some cases, an extra /block is added, which made inxi think mounted drives were unmounted. I've never seen this extra /block except on mmcblk devices on android, but you never know, it could be more widespread. 3. Also mainly related to android, but maybe other ARM devices, in some cases, an errant 'timer' device was appearing as a cpu variant, which is wrong. That was a corner case for sure, and part of the variant logic in fact uses timer values to assign the actual cpu variants, but it was wrong in this case because it was ....-timer-mem, not ...-timer, which led to non-existent CPU variants showing. 4. Issue #236 by ChrisCheney pointed out that inxi had never updated its default /proc/meminfo value to use the newer MemAvailable as default if present, which led to incorrect memory used values showing up. That's because back in the old days, we had to construct a synthetic Memory used from MemFree, buffers, cache, etc, but that wasn't always right, since sometimes the cache actually isn't available, often is, but not always. 34e431b0ae This commit on the kernel explains it pretty clearly. Thanks Chris for bringing this to our attention. 5. Kind of more future-proofing, got rid of a bunchy of hard-coded strings internally and switched those to use the row_defaults values, which is where string messages are supposed to go. That was mostly in the initial program check messages on start-up, but also a few other stray ones. Also consolidated them a bit to get rid of redundant messages, and added more variable based messages, like for missing/permissions on programs etc. The idea in general is that all the strings are contained in subs so that in theory they could be swapped for other strings, eg, languages, but honestly, I no longer see this as very likely to ever happen. But it's still nice to be consistent internally and not get sloppy with english strings. This also got rid of some largely redundant items in row_defaults, and expanded the list of handled events, and of variable based events, so it shouldn't be as necessary to add new row_defaults items for similar events. Enhancements: 1. Debugger item to maybe try to find distro OEM, this was connected with issue #231 but the issue poster vanished, and didn't do the work required, so this one won't happen until someone who cares [not me, that is] does the required work. It's always funny to see how quickly people vanish when they have to do the actual boring research that they want me to do for them, lol. Or maybe, sigh is more appropriate than lol. But it is pretty much par for the course, sad to say. Or maybe this was an OEM hoping to have someone do their corporate work for them for free, who knows. Anyway, there's a certain category of items that I'm reasonably happy to implement, but NOT if I have to do all the boring research work, so such features being added will depend on the poster actually doing the boring work. I've gotten burned on this a few times, cpu arch: for example, some guy said he'd track that and provide updates, he never even made it to the first release, so I got stuck doing that one forever after. But that one at least has some general value, so that's ok more or less, but I definitely won't take on stuff that I really don't personally care at all about unless the person requesting the feature does all the work beforehand. The boring part, that is.... 2. Related to issue #226, much improved android ID and many small android fixes for machine data etc. Now uses /system/build.prop for some data, which is a nice source, sadly, most modern android devices seem to be locked down, with both build.prop and /sys locked down, which makes inxi unable to actually get any of that data, but if your device either does not have these root only readable, or if you have an android rooted phone, the android support will be more informative. Hint: if you run inxi in termux on your non rooted android device, and it shows you what android version you are using in System:... Distro: line, then your android is not locked down. I have one such phone, android 7.1, but I cannot say how usual or non usual this is. The poster of issue #226 for instance had to root his android 7 phone to get this data to display. So it seems to vary quite a bit. Note that due to these file system lockdowns, in general, trying to do android arm support remains largely a waste of time, but on some devices sometimes, you can now get quite nice system info. As I noted in the issue, if I can't get the features to work on a non rooted phone in my possession, I'm probably not going to try to do the work because it's too hard to try to work on android issues without having the device in front of you for testing and debugging. In this case, one of my phones did work, so I did the work just to see where android is at now. Android showed some slightly odd syntaxes for some devices, but those are now handled where I got a dataset for them that revealed the changes required. 3. Also related to issue #226 for termux in android, will show -r info. That's an apt based package manager, but termux puts the apt files somewhere else so needed to change paths if those alternate paths existed for apt. 4. Added PARTFLAGS to debugger to see what knd of data that will yield, that's a lsblk key/value pair. 5. Just because it's easy to do, added new -Ixxx item, wakeups: which is a subset of Uptime, this will show how many times the system has been woken from suspend since the last boot. If the system has never been suspended, shows 0. 6. Many more disk vendors and disk IDs. The list just never ends, possibly a metaphor for something, the endless spinning of maya, who knows? 7. Added newest known ubuntu release, hirsute, to buntu ID logic. Might as well catch them early, that will be 21.04.	2020-11-11 15:35:08 -08:00
Harald Hope	e45c696010	Bug fixes, updates!!! Yes!! Why wait!!! Can't stay frozen forever! ... Bugs: 1. Not an inxi bug, but a weird change in defaults for ubuntu GNOME ENV variable values when running at least the gnome desktop, result to end users appears to be a bug. This resolves issue #228 Note that so much weird non desktop data was put into those environmental variables that inxi simply could make no sense of it. The fix was to make the detections more robust, using regex instead of string compare, as well as to at least try to strip out such corrupted data values, though that can never be fully predictable. As far as I know, this issue only hits ubuntu gnome desktops, I've never seen these value corruptions on any other distro, or on any other ubuntu desktop, though they may be there, but I'm not going to test all the ubuntu spins to find out. I'm hoping the combination of logic fixes and junk data cleaning will handle most future instances of these types of corruptions automatically. Again, this only happens on relatively laste ubuntu gnomes as far as I know. Fixes: 1. An oversight, added sshd to list of whitelisted start clients. This permits expected output for: ssh <name@server> inxi -bay that is, running inxi as an ssh command string. Should have done that a while ago, but better late than never. This corrects issue #227, or at least, has a better default, it worked fine before, but required using --tty to reset to default terminal behavior. The problem is that if inxi can't determine what it's running in, it defaults to thinking it's in an IRC client, and switches to IRC color codes, among other changes. But it was nice to get sshd covered automatically so users don't have to know the --tty option. Changes: 1. More disk vendors and vendor IDs!!! Yes, that's right, the list never ends!!	2020-10-16 13:54:25 -07:00
Harald Hope	ef428e75e1	Bug fixes, feature updates, changes!! ... Bugs: 1. There was a glitch in the pattern that made -D samsung / seagate not ID right, fixed. 2. I do not like calling this a bug, because it's not an inxi bug, it's an upstream regression in the syntax used in /proc/version, they changed a fully predictable gcc version .... to a random series of embedded/nested parentheses and other random junk. inxi tries to deal with this regression, which will be perceived as a bug in systems running kernel 5.8 or newer and inxi 3.1.06 or older, since it will fail to show the kernel build compiler version since it can't find it in the string. I really dislike these types of regressions caused by bad ideas done badly and without any thought to the transmitted knowledge base, but that's how it goes, no discipline, I miss the graybeards, who cared about things like this. Fixes: 1. more -D nvme id changes, intel in this case. 2. FreeBSD lsusb changed syntax, which triggered a series of errors when run. Since I never really got the required data [hint bsd users, do NOT file issues that you want fixed and then not provide all the data required, otherwise, really, why did you file the issue? did you expect magic pixies to fly in with the required data?] See the README.txt for what to do to get issues really handed in BSDs. tldr; version: if you won't spend the time providing data and access required, I won't spend the time on the issue, period, since if you don't care enough to do those simple steps, why on earth do you expect me to? Changes: 1. -C 'boost' option changed from -xxx feature to -x feature. Consider it a promotion! 2. Added --dbg 19 switch to enable smart data debugging for -Da. 3. Some new tools to handle impossible data values for some -D situations for SMART where the smart report contains gibberish values, that was issue #225 -- tools were convert_hex and is_Hex. The utility for these is limited, but might be of use in some cases, like handling the above gibberish data value.	2020-09-29 16:22:15 -07:00
Harald Hope	ddbd8e8679	fixed seagate/samsung glitch	2020-08-17 15:23:55 -07:00
Harald Hope	b1650ea2a8	New features, new changes, new bug fixes!!! Excitement!!! Thrills!!! ... Bugs: 1. Forgot to set get Shell logic in inxi short form, oops, so Shell remained blank, only inxi short, which I rarely use so I didn't notice. 2. Failed to test pacman-g2 for packages, had wrong query argument, so it failed. Also failed to test for null data, so showed errors for packages as well. Both fixed. 3. A big bug, subtle, and also at the same time, an enhancement, it turns out NVME drives do NOT follow the age old /proc/partitions logic where if the minor number is divisible by 16 or has remainder 8 when divided by 16, it's a primary drive, not a partition. nvme drives use a random numbering when > 1 nvme drives are present, and the old tests would fail for all nvme drivers more than the first one, which led to wrong disk size totals. Thanks gardotd426 who took the time to help figure this out in issue #223 - fix is to not do that test for nvme drives, or rather, to add a last fail test for nvme primary nvme[0-9]n[0-9] drive detections, not the minor number. Fixes: 1. Corrected indentation for block sizes, children were not indented. 2. Updated some older inxi-perl/docs pages, why not, once in a while? 3. Kernel 5.8 introduces a changed syntax to gcc string location, this has been corrected, and the kernel gcc version now shows correctly for the previous syntax and the new one. Hopefully they do not change it again, sigh... 4. Removed string 'hwmon' sensors from gpu, those are not gpu sensors, and are also usually not board/cpu sensors, but things like ath10, iwl, etc, network, or disk sensors, etc. In some cases hwmon sensor data would appear Enhancements: 1. Big sensors refactor, now inxi supports two new sensors options: --sensors-exclude - which allows you to exclude any primary sensor type[s]. Note that in the refactored logic, and in the old logic, gpu sensors were already excluded. Now other hardware specific sensors like network are excluded as well. --sensors-use - use ONLY list of supplied sensor IDs, which have to match the syntax you see in lm-sensors sensors output. Both accept comma separated list of sensors, 1 or more, no spaces. The refactor however is more far reaching, now inxi stores and structures data not as a long line of sensors and data without differentiation, but by sensor array/chip ID, which is how the exclude and use features can work, and how granular default hardware sensor exclusions and uses can happen. This is now working in the gpu sensors, and will in the future be extended to the newer 5.7/5.8 kernel disk temperature sensors values, which will lead in some cases to being able to get sensors data for disks without root or hddtemp. This is a complicated bit of logic, and I don't have time to do it right now, but the data is now there and stored and possible to use in the future. To see sensors structures, use: inxi -s --dbg 18 and that will show the sensors data and its structures, which makes debugger a lot easier for new features. This issue was originally generated by what was in my view an invalid complaint about some inxi sensors defaults, which led me to look more closely at sensors logic, which is severely lacking. More work on sensors will happen in the future, time, health, and energy permitting. 2. Added Watts, mem temp, for amdgpu sensors, as -sxxx option. More gpu sensor data will be added as new data samples show what will be available for the free modules like amdgpu, nouvean, and the intel graphics modules. 3. More disk vendors and IDs, as noted, the list never ends, and it hasn't ended, so statement remains true. Thanks linux-lite hardware database. Changes: 1. This has always bugged me since it was introduced, the primary cpu line starter Topology: which was only technically accurate for its direct value, not its children, and also, in -b, cpu short form was using the value as the key, which is a no-no, I'd been meaning to fix that too, but finally realized if I just make the primary CPU line key be 'Info:', which is short, yet non-ambiguous, it would solve both problems. To keep the -b cpu line as short as before, I removed the 'type:' and integraged that value into the primary Info: string: CPU: Info: 6-Core AMD Ryzen 5 2600 [MT MCP] speed: 2750 MHz min/max: 1550/3400 MHz -b 3.1.05 and earlier: CPU: 6-Core: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 type: MT MCP speed: 1515 MHz min/max: 1550/3400 MHz These resolve something that has irked me for quite a while, 'Topology:' didn't fit, it was too geeky, and worst, it only applied to the value directly following it, NOT to the rest of the CPU information. It also could not be shortened or abbreviated since then it would have made no actual sense, like topo:, and the same issue with value being used for key in -b, and wrong word for line starter in -C would have existed. Besides, someone might think I was trying to make a subtle reference to the great Jodorowsky film 'El Topo', which would be silly, because that's art, and this is just some system specs that are reasonably readable... 2. Was using opendns for WAN dig IP address, but apparently cysco bought that company, and now I've noticed the old opendns dig queries were failing more and more, so replaced that with akamai dig requests. Also made the WAN IP fallback to HTTP IP method if dig failed. New option: --no-http-wan and config item NO_HTTP_WAN with override --http-wan added to let you switch off http wan IP requests if you want. Note that if dig fails, you will get no wan ip address. Updated/improved error messages to handle this more complex set of wan ip options, so hopefully the error alert message will in most cases be right. 3. To future proof inxi, switched debugger upload location to ftp.smxi.org/incoming from the old techpatterns.com/incoming. Updated man/help to remove those urls too.	2020-08-16 15:27:11 -07:00
Harald Hope	3224a39f80	man page typo fix	2020-07-26 20:36:27 -07:00
Harald Hope	bbcaed9475	Bug fixes!!! New Features!! Why wait!!! ... Bugs: 1. Issue #220 on github: inxi misidentified XFCE as Gnome. This was a kind of core issue, and pointed to some logic that needed updating, and some inadequate assumptions made, and some too loose cascade of tests. Hopefully now xfce will almost never get misidentified, and the other primary desktops ID'ed either from $ENV or from xrop -root will be slightly more accurately identified as well. Note that this fix creates a possibility for obscure misconfigured desktops to be ID'ed wrong, but in this case, that will be technically a bug for them, but with the new fixes, that situation will be cleaner to handle internally in the desktop ID logic. Also tightened the final Gnome fallback detection to not trigger a possible false positive, it was testing for ^_GNOME but that is not adequate, because some gnome programs will trigger these values in xprop -root even if GNOME is not running. Should be safer now, hopefully no new bugs will be triggered by these changes. Fixes: 1. Missed an indentation level for -y1, gcc alt should have been indented in one more level, now it is. 2. In disk vendors/family, didn't clean items starting with '/', this is now corrected. Yes, some do, don't ask me why. Might be cases like: Crucial/Micron maybe, where the first ID is grabbed, not sure. Enhancements: 1. New Disk vendors, vendor IDs!!! The list never ends!!! We've finally found infinity, and it is the unceasing wave of tiny and not so tiny disks and their Ids. 2. New feature: for -Aa, -Na/-na/-ia, -Ga, now will add the modules the kernel could support if they were available on the Device-x lines of those items. This was made an -a option because it really makes no sense, if it's a regular option, users might think that for example an nvidia card had a nouveua driver when it didn't, when in fact, all the kernel is saying is that it knows those listed modules 'couid' be used or present. This corresponds to the Display: item in -Ga, that lists 'alternate:' drivers that Xorg knows about that could likewise be used, if they were on the system. In other words these are --admin options because otherwise users might get confused, so this is one where you want to know the man explanation before you ask for it. It is useful however if you're not sure what your choices are for kernel modules. When the alternate driver is the same as the active driver, or if none is found, it does not show the alternate: item to avoid spamming.	2020-07-26 19:22:59 -07:00