Der Arctis Sound Manager wurde in Version 1.4.13 veröffentlicht.

Das Tool verwaltet unter Linux die Audio-Einstellungen von SteelSeries-Arctis-Headsets, etwa Mikrofon-EQ, Filter-Ketten und die Bildschirmanzeige des GameDAC. Nach dem Anzeige-Update aus Version 1.4.11 folgt nun ein Bugfix-Release mit funktionalen Korrekturen.

Wichtigste Änderung: Einstellungen überstehen jetzt einen Aus- und Einschaltvorgang des Headsets. Bei kabellosen Modellen löst ein Power-Cycle kein USB-Ereignis aus, weshalb ASM Sidetone, Mikrofon-Lautstärke, Limiter und On-Device-EQ bislang nicht neu setzte - die gespeicherten Werte standen auf der Devices-Seite, während die Hardware auf Firmware-Standards lief. Außerdem behoben: Der ChatMix-Regler des Arctis 7 wird jetzt korrekt ausgelesen (inklusive vorzeichenbehafteter Dämpfungswerte beim Arctis 7 2019), Sonar-EQ-Live-Apply meldet auf eingeschränkten Systemen wie SteamOS keine falschen Erfolge mehr, und die udev-Dialoge schreiben auf Distrobox-Installationen nicht mehr ins Container-/etc. Der Update-Hinweis wiederholt sich nicht mehr endlos, wenn ein Distributions-Repository der GitHub-Veröffentlichung hinterherhinkt.

Fixed

• A headset that powers off and on gets its settings back. Sidetone, mic volume, the volume limiter and the on-device EQ live in the headset, not the dongle. Switch it off and they are gone; on wireless families the dongle never leaves the port, so a power cycle fires no USB event and ASM never re-applies anything. The connection status now also schedules a settings replay from the profile’s own device_init frames, plus any explicit setting device_init does not cover and the stored EQ curve. (#221)
• The Arctis 7 ChatMix dial no longer freezes at the position it had when the daemon started. The profile asked for game_chat_status exactly once in device_init, and the status poll only asked for battery. The poll now sends status.extra_requests after the main request, each reply mapped by its own starts_with, and a failing extra never costs the battery reading. (#220)
• The Arctis 7 2019 ChatMix dial reported the wrong volume. game_chat_status’s game/chat fields are a signed byte of attenuation from 0x00 (full volume), counting down toward mute. The plain unsigned mapping read the loudest position as 0% and clamped every attenuated one to 100%. A signed percentage parser is added and pointed at media_mix and chat_mix in arctis_7.yaml.
• Sonar EQ live-apply no longer lies about success on restricted systems. On SteamOS and other setups that start clients restricted (#181), pw-cli set-param can be refused by PipeWire with “Operation not permitted”. grant_props_permissions() is added, mirroring grant_link_permissions()’s repair, and wired into set_filter_controls. _ApplyWorker now only reports success when the push genuinely cannot be attempted.
• The udev dialog no longer writes rules into the container on distrobox installs. write_udev_rules and reload_udev_rules still targeted the container’s own /etc, where udev never looks. Rules are now staged under ~/.cache and installed through distrobox-host-exec, trying sudo then pkexec. container.py centralizes running_in_container() / host_exec() / host_distro() / host_is_immutable().
• The “positional fallback” log line no longer drowns out real device reports. It fired at INFO before the “does this link already exist” check, so it went out on every watchdog pass. It now logs INFO the first time for a given pair and DEBUG after.
• The update banner no longer loops when a distro repository lags behind GitHub. COPR lagged a release by roughly seven hours in discussion #140: the banner announced 1.4.12 while dnf could still install only 1.4.11. The user’s own repository now decides first; GitHub is the fallback for pipx, pip and AUR installs.

Added

• A probe for the Arctis 7 ChatMix dial in scripts/reverse-engineering/, with a README explaining how to capture and analyse the raw USB report.

Quelle: GitHub