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diff --git a/inxi.changelog b/inxi.changelog index 0dace8a..23acbdb 100644 --- a/inxi.changelog +++ b/inxi.changelog @@ -1,4 +1,146 @@ ================================================================================ +Version: 3.3.15 +Patch: 00 +Date: 2022-04-08 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +RELEASE NOTES: +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +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. Never trips in console, only on tiny linux where no +dm is used at all. Tripped with Xvesa, seen other bug reports, but not enough +data to know for sure. + +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. + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-- Harald Hope - Thu, 8 April 2022 22:46:26 -0700 + +================================================================================ Version: 3.3.14 Patch: 00 Date: 2022-03-24 |