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PACKAGERS! inxi repos are moved to https://codeberg.org/smxi/inxi
The repos will mirror to github for a short amount of time, until after 3.3.30 is released, then I am probably going to do some big changes in the structure of the inxi repo. Make sure to update your packaging tools and scripts for this change. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Finally, a huge upgrade for Wayland future proofing, and other futures that are maybe coming, by adding EGL API, and Vulkan for good measure. This should handle wayland finally, that's been a stub forever, but finally realized eglinfo was a thing, and that vulkan as well could be a contender to replace OpenGL, at least that's what Mesa says on their site, and they should know. This handles one of the longest standing weak points of inxi graphics, being completely X11-centric, even though wayland support exists fairly extensively, but this glxinfo dependent feature was a niggling annoyance, now it's fairly ambivalent about which api tool you throw at it, the hardest is to give the right message for no data, or incomplete data. Note that eglinfo supplies at least software rendering out of X11 or Wayland, so we can now get some API data in console, including if supported, OpenGL data. Not all of it, but some of it. Also since now all the docs are split and granular, with the Graphics API upgrades, added data sample files from glxinfo, eglinfo, vulkaninfo, and vainfo for good measure, just to have some of the latter. This is one of the first time all the data used to develope a feature, docs for that feature, and the feature itself, are being shared and released at the same time. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SPECIAL THANKS: 1a. GRAPHICS: API: Arch user Chrome30 on github for requesting vulkan data, and providing the initial datasamples that made it possible to think about this new API feature. 1b. CheckRecommends: Display packages: mrmazda, a frequent helper, checked and updated OpenSUSE and Fedora vulkan/egl/glx API tool package names. Those have been a bit fluid and many of the names I had were not right. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN ISSUES: 1a. GRAPHICS: nothing is perfect, for sudo/root the detections fail for OpenGL API messages, but fallbacks will make it a bit nicer than it was, with some data, instead of none as before. 1b. GRAPHICS: API: I'm assuming that the greatest EGL version number found is the actual version, and lower versions are what that platform supports. This is an assumption, not a known fact, but finding this stuff clearly documented tends towards near impossibility, or takes forever to determine, so that's the assumption that is being used. Correct via issue and clear explanation with links to resources if this is incorrect. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUGS: 1. Nothing to speak of. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXES: 1. PARTITIONS: had wekafs as a zfs type fs, it's not, it's more like NAS, cloud. Added to distributed list, and removed from zfs|btrfs|hammer list. I know, I know, will it ever matter? Probably not. But just in case, wouldn't want your local machine to report with petabytes of storage now would we! 2. CheckRecommends: corrected some Fedora, SUSE package names. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS: 1a. SYSTEM: DistroData: added Bodhi id method, /etc/bodhi/info file which is similar to /etc/lsb_release, updated system base detection as well. System base comes from /etc/os-release. 1b. SYSTEM: DistroData: Added Nitrux system base (debian). Why they try hide this is beyond me. Maybe because they are not using a real PM, and don't include apt, who knows. 2a. GRAPHICS: new nvidia gpu ids. 2b. Graphics: EGL API data: * Shows eglinfo missing if appropriate, no data messages if appropriate. * -G shows EGL version(s), drivers, active platforms. * -Gx adds active/inactive platforms as sub items of platforms. * -Gxx shows platforms by platform, with egl version, driver. EGL version only shows if there were more than 1 detected, otherwise it shows with EGL v: * -Gxxx shows hw based on driver, if found, like vulkan. To avoid excess verbosity, does not show renderer OpenGL name per platform because it would be way too long and repetetive. And besides, that would show in OpenGL anyway, more or less, unless there are two different GPUs, which is a case that is not fully handled. 2c. GRAPHICS: OpenGL data: * If glxinfo not present, or with null output due to root/no display, and if eglinfo available, and has OpenGL items, will populate most of OpenGL API with data, except for Direct Rendering and GLX version. Shows appropriate messages indicating it's EGL sourced for console, root, no data, or glxinfo missing. * -Gx adds GLX version, if detected. * -Gxx add: ES version, if detected; device-ID, if available. Also adds display-ID, if Display-ID was not found in the Display line (which probably means that xdpyinfo or xrandr were not installed). Does not always show since it already appeared in Display line if it was discovered. * -Ga adds device memory, and unified memory status (yes/no). 2d. GRAPHICS: Vulkan API data: * Shows appropriate messages if vulkaninfo present, but no data found. * -G shows Vulkan version, drivers, and surfaces. * -Gx device counts. * -Gxx adds device by id, type, driver report. * -Gxxx adds layer count; adds device hardware vendor, based on mesa driver. Not for nvidia driver, since that is self evident. Goes away with -Ga if device name exists. * -Ga adds full device report, including per device names, ids, drivers, driver versions, surfaces. 3. UPDATE: Because the smxi.org server no longer accepts TSL 1.1 based HTTP requests, added for extreme legacy systems a new update option, -U 4, which uses direct FTP download from smxi.org ftp server. If system set to default to perl downloader HTTP::Tiny it switches to using a non perl downloader automatically, like wget or curl. 4. CPU: Microarch: got early zen5 possible IDs. Both Intel/AMD may have rough ID working well before they ship in public. CPU stuff has slowed down a lot, the 4,3n nodes are not easy, obviously. 5. DRIVES: Many more drive vendors and drive IDs. 6. RAM: More RAM vendors. Note that it's not unusual for a Drive vendor to also make RAM, and vice versa. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES: 1a. GRAPHICS: For API, show OpenGL mesa-v: x.x.x separate from main API v: string. Also only shows the actual API version with v: now, like v: 4.5. Also shows vendor: nvidia v: 340.23 for nvidia, without mesa. Falls back for unhandled cases or syntaxes to the whole version string for v:. 1b. GRAPHICS: For OpenGL, shows compat-v: always if present, that was a mistake not to show it unless -Gx, since otherwise you'd think you are running a different version. Not a common situation, but on legacy hardware, can happen. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTATION: 1a. DOCS: docs/inxi-cpu.txt - reorganized into more coherent sections, like with like, etc. Added better top Sections navigation since there is so much data. 1b. DOCS: docs/inxi-resources.txt - moved last code tricks to docs/tips-tricks.txt. 1c. DOCS: new docs/ files inxi-battery.txt, inxi-debuggers.txt, inxi-devices.txt, inxi-kernel.txt, inxi-machine.txt, inxi-network.txt, inxi-raid-logical.txt, inxi-start-client.txt, inxi-tty.txt, inxi-weather. These new files cleaned out docs/inxi-data.txt and docs/inxi-resources.txt, which are now merely placeholder files, and have no data in them beyond pointers to the actual data files. 1d. DOCS: docs/inxi-custom-recommends.txt updated for SUSE/Fedora packag name fixes and new eglinfo and vulkaninfo items. 2a. DATA: moved more data from non public data to shared. Refactored directories to be better organized, and to follow the overall inxi data structures better. 2b. DATA: added many more eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo to data/graphics. Also added some clinfo, vainfo just in case decide to support those APIs. 3a. MAN/OPTIONS: updated for new graphics API features, new verbsity features, etc. 3b. MAN/OPTIONS: added -U arguments for man, for some reason I'd left those out. Also removed options references to -U 1, 2, because those should never be used, if those versions of inxi even exist, they are ancient. Added -U 4 option, and explanation of when/why to use it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CODE: 1a. FAKE DATA: updated paths for fake data to reflect data reorganization. 1b. FAKE DATA: Added --fake egl,glx,vulkan for GRAPHICS API. 2. GRAPHICS: Fully refactored opengl_output, moved to gl_data/opengl_output. Added egl_data, egl_output, and vulkan_data, vulkan_output, and some other tools. 3. UPDATE: if downloader is set to 'perl', aka, Tiny::HTTP, and -U 4 is used, which is a direct FTP download of the inxi/pinxi files, tiny is disabled, and the next available downloader (wget/curl/fetch) is used instead. 4. DEBUGGER: added clinfo, eglinfo, es2_info, vainfo, vdpauinfo, vulkaninfo. |
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Some significant bugs, 1 showstopper for FreeBSD, and one universal one for USB
network devices, and possibly some other USB device types. Also some nice new features. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SPECIAL THANKS: 1. SYSTEM: Github user chromer030 in issue #285 - a very nice small enhancement to -Sxxx line, adding kernel clocksource, and with -Sa, adding available clocksources. I wish all issues were this clean and easy to implemment, with such clear benefit. 2. BLUETOOTH: Github user chromer030, issue #286 - extending and adding bluetooth report feature. This required refactors and some cleanup of bad logic to make -E more able to handle new data sources, and also made me fix the docs and add debugger data files to make testing changes for various bluetooth datasources easier. Adding btmgmt turned out to have a lot of long term benefits to the bluetooth feature and internal inxi logic, I hadn't realized how hacked on bluetooth feature was, but code review showed it clearly. 3. SYSTEM: Github user oleg-indeez found a break in FreeBSD compiler data, 2 glitches, one made inxi crash due to is array test on undefined reference, the other maybe a bad copy paste in the past that assigned compiler data to wrong hash. See CODE 3 for details on the ref issue. 4. SWAP: Github user chromer030, again, issue #290 suggested some swap zram/zswap data enhancements, seems good, so thanks. 5. UsbData: Slackware/Linuxquestions.org poster J_W for posting on a device missing in his output as of 3.3.27 inxi. This exposed bug 3, which usually was npt visible since the fallback was catching most of the network matches, but since he had a TP-Link, and it went missing, it triggered the issues, and also exposed the inconsistent upper/lower case use in device type from kernel. 6. NETWORK: Slackware user babydr on linuxquestions.org tripped a bug in network, was not counting correctly to limit IP list. Led to showing limit message on 10th row of network report, not 10th IP of a device. See Bug 4. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN ISSUES: 1. Nothing new. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUGS: 1. BLUETOOTH: with hciconfig, would show wrong LMP/HCI version because either the syntax changed for those strings, or it was wrong always. I think it changed because this worked correctly at one point. Should now show the right hci/lmp versions, and the bluetooth version as expected for hcicconfig/btmgmt. 2. SYSTEM: CPU compiler broke for FreeBSD 13.2, caused by bad test for undefined array in CompilerVersion::version_bsd(), and also, assigned kernel compiler data to %dboot instead of %sysctl hash. Thanks oleg-indeez for spotting that one and figuring it out. 3a. UsbData: Failure to use /i caseinsensitive on regex led to failure to detect USB type using standard defaults, but then a further regex error, subtle, missed a | between two elements of a pattern, led to the last fallback case for network detection failing. This was coupled with a change in the Kernel, which now uses Uppercase first sometimes, and sometimes lowercase first. I think that's a change anyway. This resulted in some usb type hashes failing to load specific devices, network in this case, TP-Link, which was the fallback pattern that broke. 3b. UsbData::assign_usb_type() improper nesting of tests led to failures that should not have happened, like a bluetooth device cascading down to network. 4. NETWORK: IP limit was limiting based on total row count, not the actual count of IPs for that device. Not sure how that slipped up. Now correctly limits the IPs, not the previous total rows in Network report. Thanks babydr / Slackware forums for finding yet more issues. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXES: 1a. BLUETOOTH: added in switches for fake bluetooth data for all bluetooth data sources. 1b. BLUETOOTH: made --bt-tool load $force{[tool]} to be consistent with rest of logic in inxi for forcing use of specific tools. No idea why I made a standalone one only for Bluetooth. 1c. BLUETOOTH: the HCI/LMP version generators were mixing up bluetooth version string and LMP, leading to wrong results. See BUGS 1. I think this was a syntax change because I would not have generated this originally if the syntax had not worked, at least I don't think I would have. See also DOCS DATA item, added in samples for dev purposes to avoid this type of issue in future. 2. UsbData: Device type from /sys could be upper/lower case first, but inxi was not testing for anything but lower case, which would lead to fallback tests for Bluetooth, Network, at least, maybe others. This goes with BUG 3, which exposed a small torrent of such potential failure cases. The fallback block of regex is really only designed to catch the few that don't get caught by the generic type tests. 3. NETWORK: UsbData::set_network_regex(). Bad regex caused bluetooth device: "Intel Bluetooth wireless interface" to trip an overly loose regex for wireless. See BUG 3b. The real issue was incorrect test nesting which led to a bluetooth device falling down to network regex, which it should not have done. It also failed test the product name for bluetooth, which led to failure as well. 4. SWAP: Was failing to capture some zram syntaxes, regex was too tight. Failed: /run/initramfs/dev/zram0. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS: 1. SYSTEM: added kernel current clocksource for -Sxxx, and alternates for -Sa. 2. BLUETOOTH: added btmgmt as first fallback to hciconfig, that one also supplies bt version via lmp version, like hciconfig. Note this tool has very little useful information. 3. Added back in discoverable, active discovery, and pairing status with -Ea. This data is also crudely available from btmgmt but I would not bet on those items actually being right. I'm not totally convinced that's good data, so making it admin for now. Put these in a 'status:' parent container. 4a. SWAP: Added zswap enabled, compressor, max_pool_percent for -ja swap general features line. If no zswap data and Linux, shows 'N/A'. https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/zswap.txt 4b. SWAP: Added zram comp_algorithm max_comp_streams to -j per line report, only for zram, of course. https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES: 1. None that are obvious. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTATION: 1. DATA: Added new data/bluetooth/, with several sample 'btmgmt info' and 'hciconfig -a' outputs for debugging and reference purposes. These work with the revised debuggers and force/fake data switches for bluetooth. Should add some bt-adapter --info samples too to make testing/debugging easier. 2a. DOCS: Made new docs/inxi-bluetooth.txt doc. 2b. DOCS: Moved more data out of inxi-data.txt and inxi-resources.txt, into inxi-bluetooth.txt, tips-tricks.txt, man-pages.txt. While I'm not going to do it all at once, I am trying to move relevant data into granular doc file as I hit that during dev. 2c. DOCS: Updated and organized docs/inxi-tools-mapping.txt more, new mapping tools added. inxi has so many manually updated mapping tools that it's going to get more and more important that this document is accurate, and is updated when required. 3a. MAN/OPTIONS: Added BT tools to --force lists, and updated --bt-tool list. Also added -Ea options, the status: stuff. 3b. MAN/OPTIONS: Made consistent, lower case rpm, both PM type rpm and rpm as rotation were switching between RPM and rpm randomly. 3b. MAN/OPTIONS: Updated for --force ip/ifconfig, --ifconfig. 3c. MAN/OPTIONS: Updated for zswap, zram extra -ja data. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CODE: 1. BLUETOOTH: added %force bluetoothctrl, bt-adapter, btmgmt, hciconfig, rfkill, and added checks to enable $fake{'bluetooth'} in the main callers for each type. This makes debugging and development a lot easier. Also removed the force tool block in CheckTools, no idea, again, why I did it that way only for bluetooth. 2. CheckTools: got rid of set_forced_tools(), which was only used for bluetooth tools, and didn't fit with the rest of the core logic. 3. SYSTEM: CompilerVersion: used array refs wrong, or rather, used refs wrong, which led to various errors that were confusing. Corrected to start out with an array ref, then to pass that as is, leaving it the same ref all through, for bsd and linux. This is the method inxi should have always used for passing array/ hash refs around, create as ref, then pass around, and update, without assigning a new ref to it. I had failed to verify that the same ref was being used through the sequence. Unfortunately this error is probably very widespread in inxi, because no consistent rule was created and enforced from the first lines of Perl. 4. UsbData: added source type to --dbg 6 output, and added --dbg 55 to output the per type arrays. 5. NETWORK: IpData:: added --ifconfig/--force [ip|ifconfig], --fake ip-if to allow for basic debugging for -n / -i IP data sources. Not super useful since so much comes from /sys, but there was nothing there at all, which is weird for networking. 6. SWAP: Changed to passing data using scalar references, not returning an array of the items, and got rid of the copies in the swap_data_advanced() tool. It's less readable, but incurs basically very little overhead, and with the new function / method arg lists I'm using more now, it's clear what the references are. 7. IpData: got rid of extra array copies for push, pointless. |
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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. |
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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: ...
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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.
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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'.
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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.
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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 $value
but these are not necessarily defined, that needed to be protected with defined
tests.
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ENHANCEMENTS:
1a. AUDIO: JACK: added helper nsmd (new session manager), and its recommended
gui agordejo. That's the drop in replacement for non-session-manager, the dev of
which apparently lost interest in that project. But the ID method will work fine
for for either, since both ran as nsmd.
1b. AUDIO: PULSE: added pulseaudio-alsa plugin support for helpers. This is like
pipewire-alsa plugin, just alsa config file. Only seen in Arch Linux so far, but
if others use similar paths for the glob pattern, they will also work fine.
Also added pulseaudio-esound-compat plugin, which is easier to detect with
/usr/bin/esdcompat.
Also added paman, pulseaudio manager.
1c. AUDIO: ESOUND,ARTS: added legacy esd (EsounD aka: Enlightened Sound Daemon)
and aRts sound server support, with basic help/tools. These are quite old, but
are still occasionally seen in the wild on newer systems, surprisingly enough.
1d. AUDIO: ALSA: added alsactl to alsa tools. Missed that one, it's an /sbin
type utility.
1e. AUDIO: ALSA: First try at ALSA compiled in but inactive report, previously
depended on active only state of the API. Now uses compiled in SND_ kernel
switch using the /boot/config-[kernel] file, which is a big expensive parse but
only will activate on Linux kernels with no /proc/asound present. This fallback
fails if kernel config file not present: /boot/config-$(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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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. |
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tiny corner case fix to master, corrected bad dri/gpu/x driver test.
Should impact almost nobody, very hard to trigger, but fixing in master so inxi -U will correct it. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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,'') }); } |
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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*. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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bug fix, strange mount point name tripped output errors for partitions,
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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. |
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New version, man. Continuing development of EDID and monitor features, bug
fixes, normal fixes.
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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.
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BUGS:
1. None outside of the various fixes.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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DOCUMENTATION:
1. Added help/man for --edid info.
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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.
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