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| author | 2023-03-31 23:13:30 -0400 | |
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| committer | 2023-03-31 23:13:30 -0400 | |
| commit | 38992f79e7c50bcb5264fffd70b3b3ea24db338e (patch) | |
| tree | 18a988c229205da5a822741d17e7de92d42a6caf /inxi.changelog | |
| parent | bb3ac34b0f2c7a62458997fbda26db577e647ea0 (diff) | |
| parent | 3eb023f492367f0c63005a799e46a28ad2fa4f84 (diff) | |
Update upstream source from tag 'upstream/3.3.26-1'
Update to upstream version '3.3.26-1'
with Debian dir 22bd8f5bffc3566947079fe4f2185bded5e20abe
Diffstat (limited to 'inxi.changelog')
| -rw-r--r-- | inxi.changelog | 247 |
1 files changed, 239 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/inxi.changelog b/inxi.changelog index de2a905..c189752 100644 --- a/inxi.changelog +++ b/inxi.changelog @@ -1,7 +1,238 @@ ================================================================================ +Version: 3.3.26 +Patch: 00 +Date: 2023-03-28 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +RELEASE NOTES: +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Significant upgrade to sound server running detections, much more granular and +hopefully more accurate, with more useful reporting values. Also added some nice +useful audio api/server tool and info items. + +Packagers: this corrects possibly wrong or misleading audio server reports, +particularly related to PulseAudio/PipeWire, which can lead to support issues +and lack of clarity due to ambiguous or wrong reports about sound Servers +present, active, or off. Upgrading your package is highly recommended. + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +SPECIAL THANKS: + +1. Thanks to people like Chimera dev Daniel "q66" Kolesa for experimenting with +non systemd (uses dinit/dinitctl), non GCC, non GNU linux, and for making early +pre-alpha versions run in vm, and for being easy to test! + +Not so much because I personally want or care about or view as a positive +skipping GNU tools or GCC in favor of clang and BSD tools, but more because +these experiments help make the general overall Linux ecosystem more robust. +Including inxi. + +2. Thanks for the Manjaro people for noting this issue on their forums. + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +KNOWN ISSUES: + +1a. AUDIO: jack_control and pw-cli won't run as root, exit with error. This +forces back to fallback process present tests for active running state. + +1b. AUDIO: pactl will start pipewire/pipewire-pulse/pulseaudio if stopped and +not masked, so not using since that would make inxi alter the state of the +system. + +1c. AUDIO: pipewire-alsa, pulseaudio-jack depend on file exist globs, tested on +Arch Linux, Debian base, but unknown if paths exist on other Linux pimary +distros. Easy to add to globbing tests, but no going to check them all! + +2. SERVICES: systemctl status [service] can fail if service loaded using --user +which is a new one on me, not sure how to handle that. + +3. It would be nice to get inxi issues like the sound server/api glitches +handled by filing an issue on inxi github, and not to rely on my seeing a random +distro forum post, which I only found by pure coincidence. + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +BUGS: + +1. AUDIO: See Fixes 3a,b,c. In some cases false report of pulseaudio and +pipewire running: yes create unclear output and results, or misleading. Thanks +to manjaro users to noticing this and mentioning it in a forum post. + +Note: it's much more effective to file issues on inxi github than to hope I will +see a random forum post one day. + +2. DEBUGGER: Bug in debugger, somewhere introduced '-- list' (instead of +'--list') for bluetoothctl which made older systems hang when running the +debugger. No idea when or how that space got introduced. + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +FIXES: + +1. INFO: Compilers showed Compilers: gcc: N/A when clang/gcc not installed, this +was not intended, but was a small glitch in main::get_gcc_data(), where it +assigned undef as array contents when gcc not defined. This was exposed by +Chimera, which uses clang, but would have happened any time gcc not installed on +system. + +2. SYSTEM: tiny fix, was getting ',' at end of kernel compiler version. + +3a. AUDIO: For pipewire, made process detection test more robust, now excludes +pipewire-pulse in case where that might be running without pipewire on/enabled. + +3b. AUDIO: bigger fix, more robust tests for audio servers running for jack, +pipewire, pulseaudio, these look for more explicit server tool reports. Certain +not to be reliable always, and fail for superuser, will probably need more +tweaking. Also notes for jack, pulse, pipewire if only positive detection found +via ps aux: active (process) to avoid incorrect data, and root specific messages +depending on situation. + +3c. AUDIO: was testing for pactl to determine if pulseaudio installed, but found +case where pactl could be installed without pulseaudio. Now tests for pulseaudio +installed. + +3d. AUDIO: weak fix for Linux OSS4 version, using /etc/oss4/version.dat file, +which may or may not exist on all distros. + +3e. AUDIO: alsa-oss compat can create /dev/sndstat file, which would then lead +to positive OSS detection even if it's not present. This is corrected, and will +not show if asound/version exists and no ossinfo. For linux, relying on ossinfo +presence, which comes from oss4-base. + +3f. AUDIO: Older ALSA /proc/asound/version had a date string in parentheses +after the Driver Version, so now explicitly get the string after Version. + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +ENHANCEMENTS: + +1. REPOS: added support for /etc/apk/repositories.d/*.list, which works pretty +much the same as /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list. This is to make Chimera apk +repos show up, previously only supported /etc/apk/repositories file read. + +2a. DistroData: Added Feren to distro system base. This was much trickier than +it should be due to inconsistent use of os-release field names, but that's how +it goes. + +2b. DistroData: new Arch derived distro XeroLinux added to system base. I know, +I know, it's a never-ending endeavor (get it?) since these pop up all the time, +but might as well add them now and then as they appear. + +3a. AUDIO: inxi now handles pipewire-pulse as top layer audio daemon, along with +several other server/api helpers. Note that pw-jack does not appear to be a +daemon, just a plugin, so shows 'plugin'. Extra sound server helpers added when +discovered or requested. + + API: ALSA + v: k5.19.0-16.2-liquorix-amd64 + status: kernel-api + Server-1: PulseAudio + v: 16.1 + status: off (on pipewire-pulse) + Server-2: PipeWire + v: 0.3.65 + status: active + with: + 1: pipewire-pulse + status: active + 2: pw-jack + type: plugin + +3b. AUDIO: For -Aa, added tools: report. Currently supports these basic tools: + +alsa: alsamixer alsamixergui amixer +jack: cadence jack_control jack_mixer qjackctl +oss: dsbmixer mixer ossinfo ossmix ossxmix vmixctl +nas: auctl auinfo +pipewire: pw-cat pw-cli wpctl) [+pactl if pipewire-pulse and no pulseaudio +pulse: pacat pactl pamix pamixer pavucontrol pulsemixer +roar: roarcat roarctl +sndiod: aucat midicat mixerctl sndioctl + +Note that inxi-perl/docs/inxi-audio.txt has lists of alternates or rejected +helpers and tools, but we want to keep that output short and sane. + +3c. AUDIO: For BSDs, if sndiod is detected, adds an API line for sndio. Note +this may create 2 API lines for FreeBSD using OSS. + +3d. AUDIO: Added basic support for roar sound server, NAS (Network Audio +System). + +4. CPU: new Intel and AMD cpu model matches for latest and future, Luna Lake, +Zen 4c. + +5. GRAPHICS: new nvidia current, AMD, and Intel GPU ids. + +6. DRIVES: more disk vendors, ids! The list never stops, but sadly, so many are +not identifiable. Check: inxi-perl/tools/lists/disks_unhandled to see if you +can positively identify any of those. + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +CHANGES: + +1a. AUDIO: Changed main API/Server running: to status: [status], that syntax is +more able to handle different circumstances. + +1b. AUDIO: With change to status:, now uses granular fixes above, and adds root +notes if no active detections. + +1c. AUDIO: Changed 'Sound API', 'Sound Server' to 'API', 'Server'. This avoids +ambiguity with some types, it's the Audio section, and those are the APIs and +Servers for that Audio section. Makes it match Graphics as well. and is shorter. + +1d. AUDIO: Changed 'Sound Interface' for sndiod to 'Server', which is how it's +listed, and for BSD, added API: sndio item. Also changed 'sndio' to 'sndiod' for +the Server: item. + +1e. AUDIO: Changed ALSA/BSD sndio to show: status: api since saying an api +is running makes little sense, it's there or it's not there. OSS can be enabled +or disabled so shows status: active/off for Linux, but kernel-api for BSDs. + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +DOCUMENTATION: + +1a. MAN: Added note for helpers item: with: pipewire-pulse/pw-jack etc to -Axx. + +1b. MAN: Added -Aa item for audio server tools. + +2. OPTIONS: Updated for -Axx helpers, -Aa tools. + +3. DOCS: Created inxi-perl/docs/inxi-audio.txt doc file. Too many odd factoids +to forget about during this upgrade! + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +CODE: + +1. REPOS: Moved %keys to %repo_keys and set it only once with set_repo_keys(), +those big hash assigns per iteration are really expensive, now stores it +globally in RepoItem and sets only once. + +2. INFO: main::get_gcc_data() failed to handle case where there is no gcc at all +installed, resulted in returning an array with content of 'undef', not an empty +array as intended. This made the array not set test fail for Compilers, so gcc +showed as N/A, which was not intended. + +3. DistroData: changed internal lsb/osr $distro to $distro_lsb/$distro_osr, +which lets inxi update the distro name during system base processing in cases +where the data is redundant. Stupid hack, sigh, should not be necessary, but +that's life, /etc/os-release was poorly designed so it leads to such confusions. + +4a. AUDIO: Added --dbg 52 to output results of pw-cli. + +4b. AUDIO: refactored sound_data, renamed, added {jack,pipewire,pulse}_status(), +sound_helpers(), sound_tools() utilities. + +5. DEBUGGER: added more pactl and pw-cli outputs, and pipewire-pulse, +pipewire-jack --version. + +6. main::get_driver_modules(): add space after ',' if total string > 40 +characters to allow splitting very long unbroken strings of modules that +otherwise would not break as expected. + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-- Harald Hope - Tues, 28 Mar 2023 16:30:00 -0800 + +================================================================================ Version: 3.3.25 Patch: 00 -Date: 2022-??-?? +Date: 2023-02-07 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RELEASE NOTES: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -137,7 +368,7 @@ 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 +1a. 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){ @@ -147,7 +378,7 @@ https://perldoc.perl.org/perlop. I believe this led to test 1 being false, test 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 +1b. 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); @@ -157,13 +388,13 @@ $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 +2a. 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 / +2b. 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 +3. 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 = ''; @@ -188,11 +419,11 @@ used since it never worked in the first place. # main::log_data('dump',"kde config \@data",\@data) if $b_log; # } -5. OPTIONS: in OptionsHandler::post_process(), reorganized the various run and +4. OPTIONS: in OptionsHandler::post_process(), reorganized the various run and exit triggers, help, configs, recommends, version, etc. All on top now. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Harald Hope - Sun, 18 Dec 2022 14:22:22 -0800 +-- Harald Hope - Tue, 7 Feb 2023 18:00:00 -0800 ================================================================================ Version: 3.3.24 |
