Der Arctis Sound Manager wurde in Version 1.4.5 veröffentlicht, kurz nach der kürzlich vorgestellten Version 1.4.4.

Das Tool verwaltet unter Linux die Audio-Einstellungen von SteelSeries-Arctis-Headsets, etwa Mikrofon-Rauschunterdrückung, externes Output-Routing und weitere Audio-Funktionen.

Diese Version geht auf eine gezielte Fehlersuche auf Hardware und Systemen zurück, die der Entwickler selbst nicht besitzt, ergänzt um drei gemeldete Bugs. Neu ist die Auswahl des zu steuernden Headsets bei mehreren angeschlossenen Arctis-Geräten, dazu wurden zahlreiche Audio-Probleme unter SteamOS/Distrobox sowie mehrere Sicherheitslücken bei den D-Bus-Einstellungen behoben.

Added

• Choose which Arctis ASM drives when several are plugged in. Settings now lists the Arctis units actually detected and remembers the one to drive. An unplugged preferred unit falls back to the other headset rather than to nothing.
• The Nova Elite answers its own status request, ending blank status rows from startup until each control had reported once.
• A bug report says which kernel driver holds the USB interface - relevant from Linux 7.3 on, where an in-kernel hid-steelseries driver will bind to the same interface on 25+ models.

Fixed

• The .deb on the releases page could not start. It shipped without Pillow, so the daemon died on a bare ModuleNotFoundError at first launch.
• Sound on SteamOS through Distrobox: the filter-chain unit never told PipeWire where ASM stages its LADSPA plugins, ASM overwrote the host’s own service file, and a PipeWire link refused on permissions retried forever instead of regenerating.
• Safe mode delivers the flat path it promises - the fallback channels used to still point at the equaliser nodes just removed, producing silence instead of flat audio.
• GameBuds are no longer reported as absent, even though their audio played and controls worked fine.
• The uninstaller stops breaking installs it does not uninstall - it used to stop and disable ASM’s services before asking anything.
• Your equaliser survives a repair. A damaged channel config used to be rebuilt as a flat bypass; repairs now rebuild the real curve and back up what they replace.
• Settings cannot be poisoned from outside. Values arriving over D-Bus are now checked against what each setting declares, closing a hole that allowed arbitrary data in the configuration.

Quelle: GitHub