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NAME

inxi - Command line system information tool for console and IRC

SYNOPSIS

inxi

inxi [-AbBCdDeEfGhiIjJlLmMnNopPrRsSuUwyYzZ]

inxi [-c ‐NUMBER] [--sensors-exclude SENSORS] [--sensors-use SENSORS]

[-t [c|m|cm|mc][NUMBER]] [-v NUMBER] [-w [LOCATION]] [--weather-unit

{m|i|mi|im}] [-y WIDTH]

inxi [--edid] [--memory-modules] [--memory-short] [--recommends] [--sen‐

sors-default] [--slots] [--version] [--version-short]

inxi [-x|-xx|-xxx|-a] -OPTION(s)

All short form options have long form variants - see below for these and

more advanced options.

DESCRIPTION

inxi is a command line system information tool built for console and

IRC. It is also used as a debugging tool for forum technical support to

quickly ascertain users’ system configurations and hardware. inxi shows

system hardware, CPU, drivers, Xorg, Desktop, Kernel, compiler ver‐

sion(s), Processes, RAM usage, and a wide variety of other useful infor‐

mation.

inxi output varies depending on whether it is being used on CLI or IRC,

with some default filters and color options applied only for IRC use.

Colors can be turned off if desired with -c 0, or changed using the -c

color options listed in the STANDARD OPTIONS section below.

PRIVACY AND SECURITY

In order to maintain basic privacy and security, inxi used on IRC auto‐

matically filters out your network device MAC address, WAN and LAN IP,

your /home username directory in partitions, and a few other items.

Because inxi is often used on forums for support, you can also trigger

this filtering with the -z option (-ez, for example). To override the

IRC filter, you can use the -Z option. This can be useful in debugging

network connection issues online in a private chat, for example.

See FILTER OPTIONS for all filters. If you want to filter everything,

use --za though that’s usually overkill.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

This man page is pretty long and information packed. It is divided into

the following sections:

* USING OPTIONS How to use the command line options.

* STANDARD OPTIONS Primary data types trigger items.

* FILTER OPTIONS Apply a variety of output filters.

* OUTPUT CONTROL OPTIONS Change default colors, widths, heights, output

types, etc.

* EXTRA DATA OPTIONS What -x, -xx, and -xxx add to the report per pri‐

mary data type.

* ADMIN EXTRA DATA OPTIONS What -a adds to the report per primary data

type. These have a lot of information because this is advanced admin

data, which are not always intuitive or easy to understand.

* ADVANCED OPTIONS Modify behavior or choice of data sources, and other

advanced switches.

* DEBUGGING OPTIONS For development use mainly, or contributing datasets

to the project.

* DEBUGGING OPTIONS TO DEBUG DEBUGGER FAILURES Only for advanced users,

sometimes something will hang the debuggers, this shows you various ways

to get around those failures.

* SUPPORTED IRC CLIENTS List of known good IRC clients. Not checked of‐

ten, let us know if something is not working.

* RUNNING IN IRC CLIENT How to run inxi in various IRC clients.

* CONFIGURATION FILE Configuration file locations and priority in using.

* CONFIGURATION OPTIONS Most of the commonly used configuration options,

along with sample values.

* BUGS How and where to report bugs.

* HOMEPAGE, AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS TO CODE, SPECIAL THANKS TO THE FOL‐

LOWING These are self explanitory.

USING OPTIONS

Options can be combined if they do not conflict. You can either group

the letters together or separate them.

Letters with numbers can have no gap or a gap at your discretion, except

when using -t. Note that if you use an option that requires an addi‐

tional argument, that must be last in the short form group of options.

Otherwise you can use those separately as well.

For example: inxi -AG | inxi -A -G | inxi -b | inxi -c10 | inxi

| inxi -bay

Note that all the short form options have long form equivalents, which

are listed below. However, usually the short form is used in examples in

order to keep things simple.

STANDARD OPTIONS

, --audio

Show Audio/sound device(s) information, including device driver.

Shows active sound API(s) and sound server(s).

Supported APIs: ALSA, OSS, sndio. Supported servers: aRts

(artsd), Enlightened Sound Daemon (esound, esd), JACK, NAS (Net‐

work Audio System, nasd), PipeWire, PulseAudio, RoarAudio,

sndiod.

Use -Ax to show all sound APIs/servers detected, including inac‐

tive, -Axx to see API/Server helper daemons/plugin/modules, and

to see API/sound server tools.

Audio:

Device-1: C‐Media CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio] driver: snd_virtuoso

Device-2: AMD Cedar HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5400/6300/7300 Series]

driver: snd_hda_intel

Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel

API: ALSA v: k5.19.0-16.2-liquorix-amd64 status: kernel-api

Server-1: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: active

, --basic

Show basic report with the following items: System (-S); Machine

(-M); Battery (-B) (if available); basic CPU (cores, type, aver‐

age clock speed, and min/max speeds, if available); Graphics

(-G); Networking devices (-N); basic Disk; Info (-I).

The CPU and Disk short forms are special, and are only used in

To see their full forms, add -C or -D.

Same as: inxi -v 2

For expanded -b report, see -e/--expanded.

, --battery

Show system battery (ID-x) data, charge, condition, plus extra

information (if battery present). Uses /sys or, for BSDs without

systctl battery data, use --dmidecode to force its use. dmidecode

does not have very much information, and none about current bat‐

tery state/charge/voltage. Supports multiple batteries when using

/sys or sysctl data.

Note that for charge:, the report shows the current charge, as

well as its value as a percentage of the available capacity,

which can be less than the original design capacity. In the fol‐

lowing example, the actual current available capacity of the bat‐

tery is 22.2 Wh.

charge: 20.1 Wh (95.4%)

If charge percent > 100, adds note: check. The causes from that

can range from driver bugs, hardware bugs, odd behaviors, so

there’s no way to know why.

The condition: item shows the remaining available capacity /

original design capacity, and then this figure as a percentage of

original capacity available in the battery.

condition: 22.2/36.4 Wh (61%)

Corner cases of failing battery show < 1 Wh and percent values

for charge, capacity, and condition, and an alert.

condition: 0.01/62.6 Wh (0.02%) alert: bad battery?

If health item is available and if it is not ’good’, shows

health: value. Always shows with -x if present.

With -x, or if voltage difference is critical, volts: item shows

the current voltage, and the min: voltage. Note that if the cur‐

rent is below the minimum listed the battery is essentially dead

and will not charge. Test that to confirm, but that’s techni‐

cally how it’s supposed to work.

volts: 12.0 min: 11.4

With -x shows attached Device-x information (mouse, keyboard,

etc.) if they are battery powered.

--bluetooth

See -E.

, --color

See OUTPUT CONTROL OPTIONS.

--configuration

Show active configuration values, by file, and exit.

, --cpu

Show full CPU report (if each item available): basic CPU topol‐

ogy, model, type, L2 cache, average speed of all cores (if > 1

core, otherwise speed of the core), min/max speeds for CPU, and

per CPU clock speed. More data available with -x, -xxx, and -a

options.

Explanation of CPU type (type: MT MCP) abbreviations:

* AMCP - Asymmetric Multi Core Processor. More than 1 core per

CPU, and more than one core type (single and multithreaded cores

in the same CPU).

* AMP - Asymmetric Multi Processing (more than 1 physical CPU,

but not identical in terms of core counts or min/max speeds).

* MT - Multi/Hyper Threaded CPU (more than 1 thread per core,

previously HT).

* MST - Multi and Single Threaded CPU (a CPU with both Single and

Multi Threaded cores).

* MCM - Multi Chip Model (more than 1 die per CPU).

* MCP - Multi Core Processor (more than 1 core per CPU).

* SMP - Symmetric Multi Processing (more than 1 physical CPU).

* UP - Uni (single core) Processor.

Note that min/max: speeds are not necessarily true in cases of

overclocked CPUs or CPUs in turbo/boost mode. See -Ca for alter‐

nate base/boost: speed data, more granular cache data, and more.

Sample:

CPU:

Info: 2x 8-core model: Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 bits: 64 type: MT MCP SMP

cache: L2: 2x 2 MiB (4 MiB)

Speed (MHz): avg: 1601 min/max: 1200/3000 cores: 1: 1280 2: 1595 3: 1416

... 32: 1634

, --disk-full,--optical

Show optical drive data as well as -D HDD/SSD drive data. With

adds a feature line to the report. Also shows floppy disks if

present. Note that there is no current way to get any information

about the floppy device that we are aware of, so it will simply

show the floppy ID without any extra data. -xx adds a few more

features.

, --disk

Show HDD/SSD drive info. Shows total drive space and used per‐

centage. The drive used percentage includes space used by swap

partition(s), since those are not usable for data storage. Also,

unmounted partitions are not counted in drive use percentages

since inxi has no access to the used amount.

If the system has RAID or other logical storage, and if inxi can

determine the size of those vs their components, you will see the

storage total raw and usable sizes, plus the percent used of the

usable size. The no argument short form of inxi will show only

the usable (or total if no usable) and used percent. If there is

no logical storage detected, only total: and used: will show.

Sample (with RAID logical size calculated):

Local Storage: total: raw: 5.49 TiB usable: 2.80 TiB used: 1.35

TiB (48.3%)

Without logical storage detected:

Local Storage: total: 2.89 TiB used: 1.51 TiB (52.3%)

Also shows per drive information: Disk ID, type (FireWire, Remov‐

able, USB if present), vendor (if detected), model, and size. See

Extra Data Options (-x options) and Admin Extra Data Options

(--admin options) for many more features.

, --expanded

Show expanded -b report. Includes all Upper Case options (except

plus --swap, -s and -n. Does not show extra verbose options

such as -d -f -i ‐J -l -m -o -p -r -t -u -x unless you use those

arguments in the command, e.g.: inxi -ermxx

The basic CPU line is expanded to full CPU data (-C); the basic

disk information line is expanded to full drive information (-D)

plus primary system partition data (-P), along with adding, if

found, RAID (-R) and Logical (-L) items; the Network line (-N) is

expanded to advanced network (-n).

Note that with -e, to avoid clutter, -B, -E, -L, and -R only show

if results are found since those are often not relevant.

For basic report, see -b/--basic.

The previous -F/--full are deprecated because the expanded report

has not been full for a long time.

--bluetooth

Show bluetooth device(s), drivers. Show Report: with HCI ID,

state, address per device (requires btmgmt, bt-adapter, or hci‐

config), and if available (hciconfig, btmgmt only) bluetooth ver‐

sion (bt-v). See Extra Data Options for more.

If bluetooth shows as status: down, shows bt-service: state and

rfkill software and hardware blocked states, and rfkill ID.

Note that Report-ID: indicates that the HCI item was not able to

be linked to a specific device, similar to IF-ID: in -n.

If your internal bluetooth device does not show, it’s possible

that it has been disabled, if you try enabling it using for exam‐

ple:

hciconfig hci0 up

and it returns a blocked by RF-Kill error, you can do one of

these:

connmanctl enable bluetooth

or

rfkill list bluetooth

rfkill unblock bluetooth

--edid

Triggers full EDID data in Graphics, activates -G and -a.

- Adds monitor chromacity (chroma:

red:..green:...blue:...white:).

- Shows all available monitor modes if > 2 present, in comma sep‐

arated list.

- Shows EDID errors and warnings if any present.

-z

See FILTER OPTIONS.

, --flags

Show all CPU flags used, not just the short list. Not shown with

in order to avoid spamming. ARM CPUs: show features items.

, --full

Deprecated. See -e/--expanded.

, --graphics

Show Graphic device(s) information, including details of device

and display drivers (X: loaded:, and, if applicable: unloaded:,

failed:, dri: (if X and different from loaded X drivers) drivers,

and active gpu: drivers), display protocol (if available), dis‐

play server (and/or Wayland compositor), vendor and version num‐

ber, e.g.:

Display: x11 server: Xorg v: 1.15.1

or:

Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.20.1 with: Xwayland v: 20.1

If protocol is not detected, shows:

Display: server: Xorg 1.15.1

Adds with: Xwayland v:... if xwayland server is installed, re‐

gardless of protocol.

Also shows screen resolution(s) (per monitor/X screen). Shows

graphics API information (if available). EGL: EGL version, dri‐

vers, acdtive platforms; OpenGL: renderer, OpenGL core profile

version/OpenGL version (if core/compat versions different, shows

that as well); Vulkan: Vulkan version, drivers, surfaces;VESA:

data (for Xvesa).

Compositor information will show if detected using -xx option or

always if detected and Wayland since the compositor is the server

with Wayland.

shows monitor data as well, if detected. --edid shows ad‐

vanced monitor data (full modes, chroma, etc.).

, --help

The help menu. Features dynamic sizing to fit into terminal win‐

dow. Set global COLS_MAX_CONSOLE if you want a different default

value, or use -y [width] to temporarily override the defaults or

actual window width.

, --ip

Show WAN IP address and local interfaces (latter requires ifcon‐

fig or ip network tool), as well as network report from -n. Not

shown with -e for user security reasons. You shouldn’t paste your

local/WAN IP. Shows both IPv4 and IPv6 link IP addresses.

--limit [-1 - x]

Raise or lower max report limit of IP addresses for -i. -1 re‐

moves limit.

, --info

Show Information: processes, uptime, memory, IRC client (or shell

type if run in shell, not IRC), inxi version. See -Ix, -Ixx, and

for extra information (init type/version, runlevel/target,

packages).

Note: if -m or -tm are active, the memory item will show in the

main Memory: report of -m/-tm/, not in Info:.

See -m for explanation of Memory: fields and values..

--swap

Shows all active swap types (partition, file, zram). When this

option is used, swap partition(s) will not show on the -P line to

avoid redundancy.

To show partition labels or UUIDs (when available and relevant),

use with -l or -u.

, --usb

Show USB data for attached Hubs and Devices. Hubs also show num‐

ber of ports. Be aware that a port is not always external, some

may be internal, and either used or unused (for example, a moth‐

erboard USB header connector that is not used).

Hubs and Devices are listed in order of BusID.

BusID is generally in this format: BusID-port[.port][.port]:Devi‐

ceID

Device ID is a number created by the kernel, and has no necessary

ordering or sequence connection, but can be used to match this

output to lsusb values, which generally shows BusID / DeviceID

(except for tree view, which shows ports).

Examples: Device-3: 4-3.2.1:2 or Hub: 4-0:1

The rev: 2.0 item refers to the USB revision number, like 1.0 or

3.1.

Use -Jx for basic Si base 10 bits/s speed, -Jxx for Si and IEC

base 2 Bytes/s speeds. -Ja adds USB mode.

, --label

Show partition labels. Use with -j, -o, -p, and -P to show parti‐

tion labels. Requires one of those options.

Sample: -ojpl.

--logical

Show Logical volume information, for LVM, LUKS, bcache, etc.

Shows size, free space (for LVM VG). For LVM, shows Device-[xx]:

VG: (Volume Group) size/free, LV-[xx] (Logical Volume). LV shows

type, size, and components. Note that components are made up of

either containers (aka, logical devices), or physical devices.

The full report requires doas/sudo/root.

Logical block devices can be thought of as devices that are made

up out of either other logical devices, or physical devices. inxi

does its best to show what each logical device is made out of.

RAID devices form a subset of all possible Logical devices, but

have their own section, -R.

If -R is used with -Lxx, -Lxx will not show RAID information for

LVM RAID devices since it’s redundant. If -R is not used, a sim‐

ple RAID line will appear for LVM RAID in -Lxx.

also shows all components and devices. Note that since com‐

ponents can go in many levels, each level per primary component

is indicated by either another ’c’, or ends with a ’p’ device,

the physical device. The number of c’s or p’s indicates the

depth, so you can see which component belongs to which.

shows only the top level components/devices (like -R). -La

shows component/device size, maj:min ID, mapped name (if applica‐

ble), and puts each component/device on its own line.

Sample:

Device-10: mybackup type: LUKS dm: dm-28 size: 6.36 GiB Components:

c-1: md1 cc-1: dm-26 ppp-1: sdj2 cc-2: dm-27 ppp-1: sdk2

LV-5: lvm_raid1 type: raid1 dm: dm-16 size: 4.88 GiB

RAID: stripes: 2 sync: idle copied: 100% mismatches: 0

Components: c-1: dm-10 pp-1: sdd1 c-2: dm-11 pp-1: sdd1 c-3: dm-13

pp-1: sde1 c-4: dm-15 pp-1: sde1

It is easier to follow the flow of components and devices using

In this example, there is one primary component (c-1), md1,

which is made up of two components (cc-1,2), dm-26 and dm-27.

These are respectively made from physical devices (p-1) sdj2 and

sdk2.

Device-10: mybackup

maj-min: 254:28

type: LUKS

dm: dm-28

size: 6.36 GiB

Components:

c-1: md1

maj-min: 9:1

size: 6.37 GiB

cc-1: dm-26

maj-min: 254:26

mapped: vg5-level1a

size: 12.28 GiB

ppp-1: sdj2

maj-min: 8:146

size: 12.79 GiB

cc-2: dm-27

maj-min: 254:27

mapped: vg5-level1b

size: 6.38 GiB

ppp-1: sdk2

maj-min: 8:162

size: 12.79 GiB

Other types of logical block handling like LUKS, bcache show as:

Device-[xx] [name/id] type: [LUKS|Crypto|bcache]:

, --memory

Memory (RAM) data. Does not display with -b or -e unless you use

explicitly. Ordered by system board physical system memory ar‐

ray(s) (Array-[number]), and individual memory devices (De‐

vice-[number]). Physical memory array data shows array capacity,

number of devices supported, and Error Correction information.

Devices shows locator data (highly variable in syntax), type (eg:

type: DDR3)size, speed.

Note: inxi -m uses either dboot (BSDs), dmidecode, or udevadm

(Linux) to collect the RAM data. Not all boards have DMI RAM data

available.

dmidecode must be run as root (or start inxi with doas/sudo), un‐

less you figure out how to set up doas/sudo to permit dmidecode

to read /dev/mem as user.

udevadm can be run by non-superuser, or if dmidecode is not in‐

stalled (Linux only). It has a slightly less reliable dmi table

report, and does not seem to support more than 1 board memory ar‐

ray, but is pretty good. Voltages may be wrong however.

Both dmidecode and udevadm need a DMI table with RAM data to cre‐

ate the report. Most SBC/SOC boards don’t have dmi based RAM

data. But most other machines do.

speed and bus-width will not show if no module installed is found

in size.

Note: If -m is triggered RAM available/used report will appear in

this section, not in -I or -tm items.

Because dmi source data is somewhat unreliable, inxi will try to

make best guesses. If you see (check) after the capacity number,

you should check it with the specifications. (est) is slightly

more reliable, but you should still check the real specifications

before buying RAM. Unfortunately there is nothing inxi can do to

get truly reliable data about the system RAM; maybe one day the

kernel devs will put this data into /sys, and make it real data,

taken from the actual system, not dmi data. For most people, the

data will be right, but a significant percentage of users will

have either a wrong max module size, if available, or max capac‐

ity.

Under dmidecode/udevadm, speed: is the expected speed of the mem‐

ory (spec:, what is advertised on the memory spec sheet) and ac‐

tual:, what the actual speed is now. To handle this, if speed and

configured speed values are different, you will see this instead:

speed: spec: [specified speed] MT/s actual: [actual] MT/s

Also, if DDR, and speed in MHz, will change to: speed: [speed]

MT/s ([speed] MHz)

If the detected speed is logically absurd, like 1 MT/s or 69910

MT/s, adds: note: check. Sample:

Memory:

System RAM: total: 32 GiB note: est. available: 31.38 GiB

used: 20.65 GiB (65.8%)

Array-1: capacity: N/A slots: 4 note: check EC: N/A

Device-1: DIMM_A1 type: DDR3 size: 8 GiB speed: 1600 MT/s (800 MHz)

Device-2: DIMM_A2 type: DDR3 size: 8 GiB speed: spec: 1600 MT/s (800 MHz)

actual: 61910 MT/s (30955 MHz) note: check

Device-3: DIMM_B1 type: DDR3 size: 8 GiB speed: 1600 MT/s (800 MHz)

Device-4: DIMM_B2 type: DDR3 size: 8 GiB speed: spec: 1600 MT/s (800 MHz)

actual: 2 MT/s (1 MHz) note: check

See --memory-modules and --memory-short if you want a shorter re‐

port.

Notes on System RAM: / Memory: report item:

* total: and igpu: do not show for short form.

* The total: can come from several possible sources:

- If not superuser, and if /sys/devices/system/memory exists, it

will estimate the total RAM based on how many RAM blocks and

their size. Sometimes the block count is not an exact match to

installed RAM, and inxi will attempt to guess the actual RAM

amount, except for virtual machines. When it synthesizes the ac‐

tual physical RAM total, it will show note: est..

Note that not all kernels are compiled to support generating this

/sys directory (kernel needs to be compiled with CONFIG_MEM‐

ORY_HOTPLUG).

- For OpenBSD and not superuser, the total comes from the de‐

tected RAM in dboot, if available.

- If superuser, and if -m used, it comes from the dmidecode RAM

totals if available, and if not, it comes from counting up the

System RAM ranges in /proc/iomem (Linux only), then rounding up,

since that total is usually slightly under the actual physical

RAM total. If inxi is unsure about the total, it will show note:

est..

If no total data found, shows total: N/A.

* The available: item is the total installed RAM minus some re‐

served and kernel code RAM (and in some cases iGPU assigned main

system RAM) that is allocated on system boot, and thus is gener‐

ally less than the actual physical RAM installed. This is called

MemTotal in free/meminfo even though it isn’t, though it is the

total available the kernel has to work with.

* The used: is the percent of the available RAM used, NOT of the

total physical RAM.

* The igpu: item either comes from Raspberry Pi gpu RAM, or from

/proc/iomem. The latter source is Linux + superuser only, and is

not guaranteed to be accurate, but sometimes is. That is for iGPU

system RAM used, not for standalone GPUs with their own internal

RAM. Not all types of internal VRAM are detectable, it depends on

how the hardware assigns RAM to iGPU.

Raspberry Pi uses vcgencmd get_mem gpu to get gpu RAM amount, if

user is in video group and vcgencmd is installed.

--mm

Memory (RAM) data. Show only RAM arrays and modules in Memory re‐

port. Skip empty slots. See -m.

--ms

Memory (RAM) data. Show a one line RAM report in Memory. See -m.

Sample: Report: arrays: 1 slots: 4 modules: 2 type: DDR4

, --machine

Show machine data. Device, Motherboard, BIOS, and if present,

System Builder (Like Lenovo). Older systems/kernels without the

required /sys data can use dmidecode instead, run as root. If us‐

ing dmidecode, may also show BIOS/UEFI revision as well as ver‐

sion. --dmidecode forces use of dmidecode data instead of /sys.

Will also attempt to show if the system was booted by BIOS, UEFI,

or UEFI [Legacy], the latter being legacy BIOS boot mode in a

system board using UEFI.

Device information requires either /sys or dmidecode. Note that

other-vm? is a type that means it’s usually a VM, but inxi failed

to detect which type, or positively confirm which VM it is. Pri‐

mary VM identification is via systemd-detect-virt but fallback

tests that should also support some BSDs are used. Less commonly

used or harder to detect VMs may not be correctly detected. If

you get an incorrect report, post an issue and we’ll get it fixed

if possible.

Due to unreliable vendor data, device type will show: desktop,

laptop, notebook, server, blade, plus some obscure stuff that

inxi is unlikely to ever run on.

, --network-advanced

Show Advanced Network device information in addition to that pro‐

duced by -N. Shows interface, speed, MAC ID, state, etc.

, --network

Show Network device(s) information, including device driver. With

shows Bus ID, Port number.

, --unmounted

Show unmounted partition information (includes UUID and LABEL if

available). Shows file system type if you have lsblk installed

(Linux only). For BSD/GNU Linux: shows file system type if file

is installed, and if you are root or if you have added to

/etc/sudoers (sudo v. 1.7 or newer):

<username> ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/file (sample)

doas users: see man doas.conf for setup.

Does not show components (partitions that create the md-raid ar‐

ray) of md-raid arrays.

To show partition labels or UUIDs (when available and relevant),

use with -l or -u.

, --partitions-full

Show full Partition information (-P plus all other detected

mounted partitions).

To show partition labels or UUIDs (when available and relevant),

use with -l or -u.

--ps [dev-base|fs|id|label|per‐

cent-used|size|uuid|used]

Change default sort order of partition report. Corresponds to

PARTITION_SORT configuration item. These are the available sort

options:

dev-base ‐ /dev partition identifier, like /dev/sda1. Note that

it’s an alphabetic sort, so sda12 is before sda2.

fs - Partition filesystem. Note that sorts will be somewhat ran‐

dom if all filesystems are the same.

id - Mount point of partition (default).

label - Label of partition. If partitions have no labels, sort

will be random.

percent-used ‐ Percentage of partition size used.

size - KiB size of partition.

uuid - UUID of the partition.

used - KiB used of partition.

, --partitions

Show basic Partition information. Shows, if detected: / /boot

/boot/efi /home /opt /tmp /usr /usr/home /var /var/tmp /var/log

(for android, shows /cache /data /firmware /system). If --swap

is not used, shows active swap partitions (never shows file or

zram type swap). Use -p to see all mounted partitions.

To show partition labels or UUIDs (when available and relevant),

use with -l or -u.

--processes

See -t.

, --repos

Show distro repository data. Currently supported repo types:

APK (Alpine Linux + derived versions)

APT (Debian, Ubuntu + derived versions, as well as rpm based apt

distros like PCLinuxOS or Alt-Linux)

CARDS (NuTyX + derived versions)

EMERGE (T2 SDE, svn target URL)

EOPKG (Solus)

NETPKG (Zenwalk/Slackware)

NIX (NixOS + other distros as alternate package manager)

PACMAN (Arch Linux, KaOS + derived versions)

PACMAN-G2 (Frugalware + derived versions)

PISI (Pardus + derived versions)

PKG (OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD + derived OS types)

PORTAGE (Gentoo, Sabayon + derived versions)

PORTS (OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD + derived OS types)

SBOPKG (Slackware + derived versions)

SBOUI (Slackware + derived versions)

SCRATCHPKG (Venom + derived versions)

SLACKPKG (Slackware + derived versions)

SLAPT_GET (Slackware + derived versions)

SLPKG (Slackware + derived versions)

TCE (TinyCore)

TAZPKG (Slitaz)

URPM (Mandriva, Mageia + derived versions)

XBPS (Void)

YUM/ZYPP (Fedora, Red Hat, Suse + derived versions)

More will be added as distro data is collected. If yours is miss‐

ing please show us how to get this information and we’ll try to

add it.

See -rx, -rxx, and -ra for installed package count information.

, --raid

Show RAID data. Shows RAID devices, states, levels, device/array

size, and components. See extra data with -x / -xx.

md-raid: If device is resyncing, also shows resync progress line.

Note: supported types: lvm raid, md-raid, softraid, ZFS, and

hardware RAID. Other software RAID types may be added, if the

software RAID can be made to give the required output.

The component ID numbers work like this: mdraid: the numerator is

the actual mdraid component number; lvm/softraid/ZFS: the numera‐

tor is auto-incremented counter only. Eg. Online: 1: sdb1

If hardware RAID is detected, shows basic information. Due to

complexity of adding hardware RAID device disk / RAID reports,

those will only be added if there is demand, and reasonable re‐

porting tools.

--recommends

Checks inxi application dependencies and recommends, as well as

directories, then shows what package(s) you need to install to

add support for each feature.

, --sensors

Show report from sensors if sensors installed/configured: Mother‐

board/CPU/GPU temperatures; detected fan speeds. GPU temperature

when available. Nvidia shows screen number for multiple screens.

IPMI sensors are also used (root required) if present.

See Advanced options --sensors-use or --sensors-exclude if you

want to use only a subset of all sensors, or exclude one (cur‐

rently only for lm-sensors and /sys sourced data).

For current Linux, will fallback gracefully to using

/sys/class/hwmon as sensor data source if lm-sensors is not in‐

stalled. You can compare the two by using --force sensors-sys op‐

tion with -s.

--slots

Show PCI slots with type, speed, and status information.

--swap

See -j

, --system

Show System information: host name, kernel, desktop environment

(if in X), distro. With -xx show dm - or startx - (only shows if

present and running if out of X), and if in X, with -xxx show

more desktop info, e.g. taskbar or panel.

, --processes

[c|m|cm|mc NUMBER] Show processes. If no arguments, defaults to

cm. If followed by a number, shows that number of processes for

each type (default: 5; if in IRC, max: 5)

Make sure that there is no space between letters and numbers

(e.g. write as -t cm10).

c - CPU only. With -x, also shows memory for that process on same

line.

m - memory only. With -x, also shows CPU for that process on same

line. If the -I or -m lines are not triggered, will also show

the system RAM used/total information.

See -m for explanation of System RAM: fields and values.

cm - CPU+memory. With -x, shows also CPU or memory for that process

on same line.

, --uuid

Show UUIDs. Use with -j, -M -o, -p, and -P to show partition/sys‐

tem board (not common) UUIDs. Requires one of those options.

Sample: -opju.

, --update

Note - Maintainer may have disabled this function.

If inxi -h has no listing for -U then it’s disabled.

Auto-update inxi or pinxi. Note: if you installed as root, you

must be root to update, otherwise user is fine. Also installs /

updates current man page to: /usr/local/share/man/man1 (if

/usr/local/share/man/ exists AND there is no inxi man page in

/usr/share/man/man1, otherwise it goes to /usr/share/man/man1).

This requires that you be root to write to that directory. See

or --no-man to force or disable man install.

accepts the following options (inxi and pinxi):

No arg - Get from main git branch.

3 - Get the dev server (smxi.org) version. Be aware that pinxi

when taken from here can be very unstable during active develop‐

ment! The inxi version is the stable master branch version. Also

useful to update if you have SSL issues and --no-ssl works.

4 - Get the dev server (smxi.org) FTP version (same as 3 ver‐

sion). Use if SSL issues and --no-ssl doesn’t work. For very old

systems with SSL 1, you will probably need to use this option,

which bypasses HTTP downloading, and uses straight FTP to get the

file from smxi.org server.

[http|https|ftp] - Get a version of $self_name from your own

server. Use the full download path, e.g.

inxi ‐U https://myserver.com/inxi

For failed downloads, use the debug option --dbg 1 in addition to

get more verbose failure reports.

--usb

See -J.

, --verbosity

Report verbosity levels. If no verbosity level number is given, 0

is assumed. Should not be used with -b or -e since the option

that triggers the most features will override the one with fewer.

Supported levels: 0-8

Can be used together with other options.

Examples: inxi -v 4 or inxi -v4 or inxi --verbosity 4 or inxi

-zv8

0 - Simple report. Same as: inxi (with no options).

1 - Basic report: System (-S); basic CPU (cores, type, average

clock speed, and min/max speeds, if available); Graphics (-G);

basic Disk; Info (-I).

2 - Adds: Machine (-M); Battery (-B) (if available); Networking de‐

vices (-N). Same as inxi -b.

3 - Adds: full CPU (-C); advanced network (-n); triggers -x extra

data option.

4 - Adds: full Drive (-D); system Partitions (-P) (if present): /

/home /var/ /boot.

5 - Adds: memory/RAM (-m); audio device (-A); bluetooth (-E) (if

present); RAID data (-R) (if present); partition label (-l) and

UUID (-u); swap (-j); sensors (-s),

6 - Adds: full mounted partitions (-p); unmounted partitions (-o);

optical drives (-d); USB (-J); triggers -xx extra data option.

7 - Adds: full CPU flags/features (-f); advanced network IP (-i);

triggers -xxx; forces battery (-B), bluetooth (-E), Logical de‐

vices (-L) and RAID (-R) regardless whether data was found for

them or not.

8 - Adds: PCI slots (--slots); GPU advanced EDID data (--edid); Re‐

pos (-r); Processes (-tcm); triggers -a admin data option. This

is all the available system data.

--vf

inxi full version and license information. Prints information

then exits.

--vs

inxi single line version information. Prints information if not

short form (which shows version info already). Does not exit un‐

less used without any other options. Can be used with normal line

options, and prints version info line as first line of output.

, --weather [location]

DO NOT USE THIS FEATURE FOR AUTOMATED WEATHER UPDATES! Automated

or excessive use will lead to your being blocked from any further

access. This feature is not meant for widget type weather moni‐

toring, or Conky type use. It is meant to get weather when you

need to see it, for example, on a remote server. If you did not

type the weather option in manually, it’s an automated request.

Adds weather line for your current location (by IP address) if no

location requested. To get weather for an alternate location, add

[location]. See also -x, -xx, -xxx options. Please note that your

distribution’s maintainer may chose to disable this feature.

With optional [location] - get weather/time for an alternate lo‐

cation. Accepts postal/zip code[, country], city,state pair, or

latitude,longitude. Note: city/country/state names must not con‐

tain spaces. Replace spaces with the ’+’ sign. Don’t place spaces

around any commas. Postal code is not reliable except for North

America and maybe the UK. Try postal codes with and without coun‐

try code added. Note that City,State applies only to USA, other‐

wise it’s City,Country. If country name (english) does not work,

try 2 character country code (e.g. Spain: es; Great Britain: gb).

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2 for current

2 letter country codes.

Use only ASCII letters in city/state/country names.

Examples: -w OR -w 95623,us OR -w Boston,MA OR -w

45.5234,-122.6762 OR -w new+york,ny OR -w bodo,norway.

--ws [source‐id]

[1-9] Switches weather data source. Possible values are 1-9. 1-4

will generally be active, and 5-9 may or may not be active, so

check. 1 may not support city / country names with spaces (even

if you use the + sign instead of space). 2 offers pretty good

data, but may not have all small city names for -w location.

Please note that the data sources are not static per value, and

can change any time, or be removed, so always test to verify

which source is being used for each value if that is important to

you. Data sources may be added or removed on occasions, so try

each one and see which you prefer. If you get unsupported source

message, it means that number has not been implemented.

--wu [unit]

[m|i|mi|im] Sets weather units to metric (m), imperial (i), met‐

ric (imperial) (mi, default), imperial (metric) (im). If metric

or imperial not found,sets to default value, or N/A.

FILTER OPTIONS

The following options allow for applying various types of filtering to

the output.

, --filter-override

See -z, -Z.

--filter-uuid, --filter-vulnerabilities

See --zl, --zu, --zv.

Turns on hostname in System line. Overrides inxi config file

value (if set):

SHOW_HOST=’false’ - Same as: SHOW_HOST=’true’

This is an absolute override, the host will always show no matter

what other switches you use.

--no-host

Turns off hostname in System line. This is default when using -z,

for anonymizing inxi report for posting on forums or IRC. Over‐

rides configuration value (if set):

SHOW_HOST=’true’ - Same as: SHOW_HOST=’false’

This is an absolute override, the host will not show no matter

what other switches you use.

--filter

Adds security filters for IP addresses, serial numbers, MAC, lo‐

cation (-w), and user home directory name. Removes Host:. On by

default for IRC clients.

--filter-all

Shortcut to trigger -z, --zl, --zu, --zv. All the filters, that

is.

--filter-label

Filter partition label names from -j, -o, -p, -P, and -Sa

(root=LABEL=...). Generally only useful in very specialized

cases.

--filter-uuid

Filter partition UUIDs from -j, -o, -p, -P, -Sa (root=UUID=...),

board UUID. Useful in specialized cases.

--filter-v, --filter-vulnerabilities

Filter Vulnerabilities report from -Ca. Generally only useful in

very specialized cases.

, --filter-override , --no-filter

Absolute override for output filters. Useful for debugging net‐

working issues in IRC for example.

OUTPUT CONTROL OPTIONS

The following options allow for modifying the output in various ways.

, --color [0-42]

Set color scheme. If no scheme number is supplied, 0 is assumed.

[94-99]

These color selectors run a color selector option prior to inxi

starting which lets you set the config file value for the selec‐

tion.

NOTE: All configuration file set color values are removed when

output is piped or redirected. You must use the explicit runtime

[color number] option if you want color codes to be present in

the piped/redirected output.

Color selectors for each type display (NOTE: IRC and global only

show safe color set):

94 - Console, out of X.

95 - Terminal, running in X - like xTerm.

96 - GUI IRC, running in X - like XChat, Quassel, Konversation etc.

97 - Console IRC running in X - like irssi in xTerm.

98 - Console IRC not in X.

99 - Global - Overrides/removes all settings.

Setting a specific color type removes the global color selection.

[json|screen|xml]

See --output.

[11-xx]

Change primary wide indent width. Generally useless. Only applied

if output width is greater than max wrap width (see --max-wrap).

Use configuration item INDENT to make permanent.

[0-10]

Change primary wrap mode, second, and -y1 level indents. First

indent level only applied if output width is less than max wrap

width (see --max-wrap). 0 disables all wrapped indents and all

second level indents. Use configuration item INDENTS to make per‐

manent.

--wrap-max [integer]

Overrides default or configuration set line starter wrap width

value. Wrap max is the maximum width that inxi will wrap line

starters (e.g. Info:) to their own lines, with data lines in‐

dented default 2 columns (use --indents to change).

If terminal/console width or --width is less than wrap width,

wrapping of line starter occurs. If 80 or less, no wrapping will

occur. Overrides internal default value (110) and user configura‐

tion value MAX_WRAP.

--export [json|screen|xml]

Change data output type. Requires --output-file if not screen.

See this page https://smxi.org/docs/inxi‐json‐xml‐output.htm BE‐

FORE you post an issue about not understanding, or being unable

to use, the output format! That gives a fairly complete explana‐

tion of what the output means, and how to work with it. It is not

a tutorial, and it will not teach you to program, if you don’t

know how to work with json/xml structures using a proper lan‐

guage, then this feature is not meant for you.

--export-file [full path to output file|print]

The given directory path must exist. The directory path given

must exist, The print options prints to stdout. Required for

non-screen --output formats (json|xml).

--sep [character(s)]

Change the default report key: value separator : to something

else. Make permanent with configuration item SEP2_CONSOLE.

[integer]

See --max‐wrap.

--width [integer]

This is an absolute width override which sets the output line

width max. Overrides COLS_MAX_IRC, COLS_MAX_NO_DISPLAY,

COLS_MAX_CONSOLE configuration items, or the actual widths of the

terminal.

* -y - sets default width of 80 columns.

* -y [60‐xxx] - sets width to given number. Must be 60 or more.

* -y 1 - switches to a single indented key/value pair per line,

and removes all long line wrapping (similar to dmidecode output).

Not recommended for use with -Y;

* -y -1 - removes width limits (if assigned by configuration

items).

Examples:

inxi -exx -y 130

inxi -exxy

inxi -bay1

--height, --less [-3-[integer]

Control output height. Useful when in console, and scrollback not

available. Breaks output flow based on values provided.

* -Y 0 or -Y - Set default max height to terminal height.

* -Y [1-xxx] - set max output block height height in lines.

* -Y -1 - Print out one primary data item block (like CPU:, Sys‐

tem:) at a time. Useful for very long outputs like -ea, -v8, etc.

Not available for -h.

* -Y -2 - Do not disable output colors when redirected or piped

to another program. Useful if piping output to less -R for exam‐

ple. This does not limit the height otherwise since the expecta‐

tion it is being piped to another program like less which will

handle that.

* -Y -3 - Restore default unlimited output lines if LINES_MAX

configuration item set.

Recommended to use the following for very clean up and down

scrollable output out of display, while retaining the color

schemes, which are normally removed with piping or redirect:

pinxi -v8Y -2 | less -R

Note: since it’s not possible for inxi to know how many actual

terminal lines are being used by terminal wrapped output, with -y

1 , it may be better in general to use a fixed height like:

1 -Y 20 instead of: -y 1 -Y

EXTRA DATA OPTIONS

These options can be triggered by one or more -x. Alternatively, the -v

options trigger them in the following way: -v 3 adds -x; -v 6 adds -xx;

7 adds -xxx

These extra data triggers can be useful for getting more in-depth data

on various options. They can be added to any long form option list,

e.g.: -bxx or -Sxxx

There are 3 extra data levels:

-xx, -xxx

OR

1, --extra 2, --extra 3

The following details show which lines / items display extra information

for each extra data level.

-A - Adds (if available and/or relevant) vendor: item, which shows

specific vendor [product] information.

- Adds version/port(s)/driver version (if available) for each de‐

vice.

- Adds PCI/USB ID of each device.

- Adds inactive sound servers/APIs, if detected.

-B - Adds battery health: (uncommon. If other than ’good’, always

shows for -B.

- Adds battery temperature, in C (uncommon).

- Adds vendor/model, battery status (if battery present).

- Adds attached battery powered peripherals (Device-[number]:) if

detected (keyboard, mouse, etc.).

- Adds battery volts:, min: voltages. Note that if difference is

critical, that is current voltage is too close to minimum volt‐

age, shows without -x.

-C - Adds bogomips to CPU speed report (if available).

- Adds L1: and L3: cache types if either are present/available.

For BSD or legacy Linux, uses dmidecode + doas/sudo/root. Force

use of dmidecode cache values by adding --dmidecode. This will

override /sys based cache data, which tends to be better, so in

general don’t do that.

- Adds boost: [enabled|disabled] if detected, aka turbo. Not all

CPUs have this feature.

- Adds CPU Flags-basic: (short list). Use -f to see full

flag/feature list.

- Adds CPU microarchitecture + revision (e.g. Sandy Bridge, K8,

ARMv8, P6, etc.). Only shows data if detected. Newer microarchi‐

tectures will have to be added as they appear, and require the

CPU family ID, model ID, and stepping.

- Adds, if smt (Simultaneous MultiThreading) is available but

disabled, after type: data smt: disabled. type: MT means it’s en‐

abled. See -Cxxx.

Examples:

arch: Sandy Bridge rev: 2

arch: K8 rev.F+ rev: 2

If unable to non-ambiguosly determine architecture, will show

something like: arch: Amber Lake note: check rev: 9

- Adds CPU highest speed after avg: [speed] high: [speed] if

greater than 1 core and cores have different speeds. Linux only.

-d - Adds more items to Features line of optical drive; dds rev ver‐

sion to optical drive.

-D - Adds drive temperature with disk data.

Method 1: Systems running Linux kernels ˜5.6 and newer should

have drivetemp module data available. If so, drive temps will

come from /sys data for each drive, and will not require root or

hddtemp. This method is MUCH faster than using hddtemp. Note that

NVMe drives do not require drivetemp.

If your drivetemp module is not enabled, enable it:

modprobe drivetemp

Once enabled, add drivetemp to /etc/modules or /etc/mod‐

ules-load.d/***.conf so it starts automatically.

If you see drive temps running as regular user and you did not

configure system to use doas/sudo hddtemp, then your system sup‐

ports this feature. If no /sys data is found, inxi will try to

use hddtemp methods instead for that drive. Hint: if temp is

/sys sourced, the temp will be to 1 decimal, like 34.8, if hd‐

dtemp sourced, they will be integers.

Method 2: if you have hddtemp installed, if you are root or if

you have added to /etc/sudoers (sudo v. 1.7 or newer):

<username> ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/hddtemp (sample)

doas users: see man doas.conf for setup.

You can force use of hddtemp for all drives using --hddtemp.

- If free LVM volume group size detected (root required), show

lvm-free: on Local Storage line. This is how much unused space

the VGs contain, that is, space not assigned to LVs.

-E (--bluetooth)

- Adds (if available and/or relevant) vendor: item, which shows

specific vendor [product] information.

- Adds PCI/USB Bus ID of each device.

- Adds driver version (if available) for each device.

- Adds (if available, btmgmt, hciconfig only) LMP (HCI if no LMP

data, and HCI if HCI/LMP versions are different) version (if

available) for each HCI ID.

-G - Adds GPU micro-architecture (if AMD/Intel/Nvidia and detected).

- Adds PCI/USB ID of each device.

- Adds (if available and/or relevant) vendor: item, which shows

specific vendor [product] information.

- X.org: Adds (for single GPU, nvidia driver) screen number that

GPU is running on.

- Adds device temperature for each discrete device (Linux only).

- For EGL, adds active/inactive platform report.

- For OpenGL (X.org only) adds direct render status, GLX version.

- For Vulkan, adds device count.

-i - Adds IP v6 additional scope data, like Global, Site, Temporary

for each interface.

Note that there is no way we are aware of to filter out the dep‐

recated IP v6 scope site/global temporary addresses from the out‐

put of ifconfig. The ip tool shows that clearly.

ip-v6-temporary - (ip tool only), scope global temporary. Scope

global temporary deprecated is not shown

ip-v6-global - scope global (ifconfig will show this for all

types, global, global temporary, and global temporary deprecated,

ip shows it only for global)

ip-v6-link - scope link (ip/ifconfig) - default for -i.

ip-v6-site - scope site (ip/ifconfig). This has been deprecated

in IPv6, but still exists. ifconfig may show multiple site val‐

ues, as with global temporary, and global temporary deprecated.

ip-v6-unknown - unknown scope

-I - Adds current init system (and init rc in some cases, like

OpenRC). With -xx, shows init/rc version number, if available.

- Adds default system compilers. With -xx, also show other in‐

stalled compiler versions.

- Adds current runlevel/target (not available with all init sys‐

tems).

- Adds total packages discovered in system. See -xx and -a for

per package manager type reports. Moves to Repos if -rx.

If your package manager is not supported, please file an issue

and we’ll add it. That requires the full output of the query or

method to discover all installed packages on your system, as well

of course as the command or method used to discover those.

- If in shell (i.e. not in IRC client), adds shell version num‐

ber, if available.

-j (--swap)

Add mapper:. See -x -o.

-J (--usb)

- For Devices, adds driver(s).

- Adds, if available, USB speed in base 10 bits/s (Si) units Mb/s

or Gb/s (may be incorrect on BSDs due to non reliable data

source). These are base 10 bits per second. This unit corresponds

to the standard units the USB consortium uses to indicate speeds,

but not to how most of the rest of your system reports sizes. Use

to add base 2 IEC Byte/second speeds.

-L (--logical)

- Adds dm: dm‐x to VG > LV and other Device types. This can help

tracking down which device belongs to what.

-m, --memory-modules

- If present, adds maximum memory module/device size in the Array

line. Only some systems will have this data available. Shows es‐

timate if it can generate one.

-N - Adds (if available and/or relevant) vendor: item, which shows

specific vendor [product] information.

- Adds version/port(s)/driver version (if available) for each de‐

vice;

- Adds PCI/USB ID of each device.

- Adds device temperature for each discrete device (Linux only).

-o, -x -p, -x -P

- Adds mapper: (the /dev/mapper/ partition ID) if mapped parti‐

tion.

Example: ID-4: /home ... dev: /dev/dm‐6 mapped: ar0‐home

-r - Adds Package info. See -Ix

-R - md-raid: Adds second RAID Info line with extra data: blocks,

chunk size, bitmap (if present). Resync line, shows blocks

synced/total blocks.

- Hardware RAID: Adds driver version, Bus ID.

-s - Adds basic voltages: 12v, 5v, 3.3v, vbat (ipmi, lm-sensors /

/sys/class/hwmon if present).

-S - Adds Kernel compiler version.

- Adds to Distro: base: if detected. System base will only be

seen on a subset of distributions. The distro must be both de‐

rived from a parent distro (e.g. Mint from Ubuntu), and explic‐

itly added to the supported distributions for this feature. Due

to the complexity of distribution identification, these will only

be added as relatively solid methods are found for each distribu‐

tion system base detection.

--slots

- Adds slot bus-ID:, if found.

-t (--processes)

- Adds memory use report to CPU (-xt c), and CPU use to memory

(-xt m).

-w - Adds humidity and barometric pressure.

- Adds wind speed and direction.

-A - Adds vendor:product ID for each device.

- Adds PCIe speed and lanes item (Linux only, if detected).

- Adds for USB devices USB rev, speed, lanes (lanes Linux only).

- Adds with: [item] status: [state/plugin] helper daemons/plugins

for the sound API/server.

-B - Adds current power use, in watts (if available).

- Adds serial number.

- Adds a charging: container for all charging specific informa‐

tion.

- Adds charge cycles (NOTE: there appears to be a problem with

the Linux kernel obtaining the cycle count, so this often shows

0. There’s nothing that can be done about this glitch, the data

is simply not available as of 2018-04-03), Since 0 isn’t a real

value, shows N/A if not found or 0.

-D - Adds HDD/SSD drive serial number.

- Adds drive speed (if available). This is the theoretical top

speed of the device as reported. This speed may be restricted by

system board limits, eg. a SATA 3 drive on a SATA 2 board may re‐

port SATA 2 speeds, but this is not completely consistent, some‐

times a SATA 3 device on a SATA 2 board reports its design speed.

NVMe drives: adds lanes, and (per direction) speed is calculated

with lane speed * lanes * PCIe overhead. PCIe 1 and 2 have data

rates of GT/s * .8 = Gb/s (10 bits required to transfer 8 bits of

data). PCIe 3 and greater transfer data at a rate of GT/s *

128/130 * lanes = Gb/s (130 bits required to transfer 128 bits of

data).

For a PCIe 3 NVMe drive, with speed of 8 GT/s and 4 lanes (8GT/s

* 128/130 * 4 = 31.6 Gb/s):

speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4

- Adds HDD/SSD drive duid, if available. Some BSDs have it.

- Adds for USB drives USB rev, speed, lanes (lanes Linux only).

-E (--bluetooth)

- Adds vendor:product ID of each device.

- Adds PCIe speed and lanes item (Linux only, and if PCIe blue‐

tooth, which is rare).

- Adds for USB devices USB rev, speed, lanes (lanes Linux only).

- Adds (hciconfig only) LMP subversion (and/or HCI revision if

applicable) for each device.

-G Triggers much more complete Screen/Monitor report.

X.org: requires xdpyinfo or xrandr, and the advanced per monitor

feature requires xrandr.

Wayland: requires any tool capable of showing monitor and resolu‐

tion information. Sway has swaymsg, weston-info or wayland-info

can show Wayland information on any Wayland compositor, and

wlr-randr can show Wayland information for any wlroots based com‐

positor.

Further note that all references to Displays, Screens, and Moni‐

tors are referring to the X or Wayland technical terms, not nor‐

mal consumer usage.

X.org: 1 Display runs 1 or more Screens, and 1 Screen runs 1 or

more Monitors.

Wayland: The Display is the primary container, and it can contain

1 or more Monitors.

- Adds vendor:product ID of each device.

- Adds PCIe speed and lanes item (Linux only, and if PCIe device

and detected).

- Adds for USB devices USB rev, speed, lanes (lanes Linux only).

- Adds output port IDs, active, off (connected but disabled, like

a closed laptop lid) and empty. Example:

ports: active: DVI-I-1,VGA-1 empty: HDMI-A-1

- Adds Display ID. X.org: the Display running the Screen that

runs the Monitors; Wayland: the Display that runs the monitors.

- Adds compositor, if found (always shows for Wayland).

- Wayland: Adds to Display d‐rect: if > 1 monitors in Display.

This is the size of the rectangle Wayland creates to situate the

monitors in.

- X.org: If available, shows alternate: Xorg drivers. This means

a driver on the default list of drivers Xorg automatically checks

for the device, but which is not installed. For example, if you

have nouveau driver, nvidia would show as alternate if it was not

installed. Note that alternate: does NOT mean you should have it,

it’s just one of the drivers Xorg checks to see if is present and

loaded when checking the device. This can let you know there are

other driver options. Note that if you have explicitly set the

driver in xorg.conf, Xorg will not create this automatic check

driver list.

- Xorg: Adds total number of Screens listed for the current Dis‐

play.

- Xorg: Adds default Screen ID if Screen (not monitor!) total is

greater than 1.

- X.org: Adds Screen line, which includes the ID (Screen: 0) then

s‐res (Screen resolution), s-dpi. Remember, this is an Xorg

Screen, NOT a monitor screen, and the information listed is about

the Xorg Screen! It may at times be the same as a single monitor

system, but usually it’s different in some ways. Note that the

physical monitor dpi and the Xorg dpi are not necessarily the

same thing, and can vary widely.

- Adds Monitor lines. Monitors are a subset of a Screen (X.org)

or Display (Wayland), each of which can have one or more moni‐

tors. Normally a dual monitor setup is 2 monitors run by one Xorg

Screen/Wayland Display.

- res: is the current monitor mode, along with the frequency hz:.

- pos: [primary,]{position string|row-col} (X.org: requires

xrandr; Wayland: requires swaymsg [sway], wlr-randr [wlroots

based compositors], weston-info / wayland-info [all]). Uses ei‐

ther explicit primary value or +0+0 position if no primary moni‐

tor value set. pos: does not show for single monitor setups, or

if no position data was found.

Position is text (left, center, center‐l, center-r, right, top,

top-left, top-center, top-right, middle, middle-c, middle-r, bot‐

tom, bottom-l, bottom-c, bottom-r) if monitors fit within the

following grids: 1x2, 1x3, 1x4, 2x1, 2x2, 2x3, 3x1, 3x2, 3x3. If

layout not supported in text, uses [row-nu]-[column-nu] instead

to indicate the monitor’s position in its grid.

The position is based on the upper left corner of each monitor

relative to the grid of monitors that the Xorg Screen is composed

of.

- diag: monitor screen diagonal in mm (inches). Note that this is

the real monitor size, not the Xorg full Screen diagonal size,

which can be quite different.

- For EGL, shows platform by specific platforms, with driver and

egl version if different from the main one.

- For OpenGL, adds ES version (es-v) if available. If the Display

line did not find an X11 display ID, the ID (e.g. :0.0) will show

here instead.

- For OpenGL, Vulkan, adds device‐ID, if available.

- For Vulkan, adds per Device ID report (type, driver, de‐

vice-ID).

-I - Addes Power: parent for power data children uptime: and adds

wakeups:. Wakeups shows how many times the machine has been woken

from suspend state during current uptime period (if available,

Linux only). 0 value means the machine has not been suspended.

- Adds init type version number (and rc if present).

- Adds alternate (alt:) detected installed compiler versions (if

present).

- Adds system default runlevel/target, if detected. Supports Sys‐

temd / Upstart /SysVinit type defaults.

- Shows Packages: counts by discovered package manager types

(pm:). In cases where only 1 pm had results, does not show total

after Packages:. Does not show installed package managers with 0

packages. See -a for full report. Moves to Repos if -rxx.

- Adds parent program (or pty/tty) that started shell, if not IRC

client.

-j (--swap), -xx -p, -xx -P

- Adds swap priority to each swap partition (for -P) used, and

for all swap types (for -j).

-J (--usb)

- Adds vendor:chip id.

- Adds USB lanes. Uses tx (transmit) lane count for total unless

rx and tx counts are different (eg: lanes: rx: 2 tx: 4). Linux

only. See -Ja for sample report.

-L (--logical)

- Adds internal LVM Logical volumes, like raid image and meta

data volumes.

- Adds full list of Components, sub-components, and their physi‐

cal devices.

- For LVM RAID, adds a RAID report line (if not -R). Read up on

LVM documentation to better understand their use of the term

’stripes’.

-m, --memory-modules

- Adds memory device Manufacturer.

- Adds memory device Part Number (part-no:). Useful for ordering

new or replacement memory sticks etc. Part numbers are unique,

particularly if you use the word memory in the search as well.

With -xxx, also shows serial number.

- Adds single/double bank memory, if data is found. Note, this

may not be 100% right all of the time since it depends on the or‐

der that data is found in dmidecode output for type 6 and type

17.

- Adds, if present, memory array voltage. Only some legacy sys‐

tems will have this data available.

- Adds memory module current configured operating voltage, if

available.

-M - Adds chassis information, if data is available. Also shows BIOS

ROM size if using dmidecode.

- Adds board part number (part-nu:) if available. This is not

commonly found.

-N - Adds vendor:product ID for each device.

- Adds PCIe speed and lanes item (Linux only, and if PCIe device

and detected).

- Adds for USB devices USB rev, speed, lanes (lanes Linux only).

-r - Adds to Packages: info. See -Ixx

-R - md-raid: Adds superblock (if present) and algorithm. If resync,

shows progress bar.

- Hardware RAID: Adds Chip vendor:product ID.

-s - Adds DIMM/SOC voltages, if present (ipmi only).

-S

- Adds desktop toolkit (tk:), if available (Xfce/KDE/Trin‐

ity/Gnome etc).

- Adds, if run in X, window manager (wm:), if available. Not all

window managers are supported. File issue to request a missing

one. Some desktops support using more than one window manager, so

this can be useful to see what window manager is actually run‐

ning. If none found, shows nothing. Uses a less accurate fallback

tool wmctrl if ps tests fail to find data.

- Adds display/login manager (dm:/lm:), if present. If none,

shows N/A. Supports most known display/login managers, including

elogind, entrance, gdm, gdm3, greetd, kdm, lemurs, lightdm, lxdm,

ly, mdm, mlogind, nodm, sddm, seatd, slim, slimski, tint, wdm,

xdm, and several others, added as discovered.

--slots

- Adds slot length.

- Adds slot voltage, if available.

-w - Adds wind chill, heat index, and dew point, if available.

- Adds cloud cover, rain, snow, or precipitation (amount in pre‐

vious hour to observation time), if available.

-A

- Adds, if present, serial number.

- Adds, if present, PCI/USB class ID.

-B

- Adds battery temperature (uncommon).

- Adds battery build date (uncommon).

- Adds battery chemistry (e.g. Li-ion)).

- Adds location (only available from dmidecode derived output.

- Adds battery charging type (uncommon).

- Adds attached device rechargeable: [yes|no] information.

-C

- Adds CPU voltage and external clock speed (this is the mother‐

board speed). Requires doas/sudo/root and dmidecode.

- Adds, if smt (Simultaneous MultiThreading) data is available,

after type: data smt: [status].

smt: [status]

MT in type: will show if smt is enabled in general. 3 values are

possible: [enabled|disabled|<unsupported>]. <unsupported> means

the CPU does not support SMT.

-D

- Adds HDD/SSD drive firmware revision number (if available).

- Adds drive partition scheme (in most cases), e.g. scheme: GPT.

Currently not able to detect all schemes, but handles the most

common, e.g. GPT or MBR.

- Adds drive tech (HDD/SSD), rotation speed (in some but not all

cases), e.g. tech: HDD rpm: 7200, or tech: SSD if positive SSD

identification was made. If no HDD, rotation, or positive SSD ID

found, shows tech: N/A. Not all HDD spinning disks report their

speed, so even if they are spinning, no rpm data will show.

-E (--bluetooth)

- Adds, if present, PCI/USB class ID.

- Adds, if present, bluetooth device class ID.

- Adds (hciconfig only) HCI version, revision.

-G

- Adds, if present, Device PCI/USB class ID.

- Adds to Device serial: number (if found).

- Xorg: Adds to Screen: s-size: and s-diag:. (Screen size data

requires xdpyinfo). This is the X.org Screen dimensions, NOT the

Monitor size!

- Expands monitor res: to current mode:, hz:, scale:, and if

scale != 1, scaled to: resolution.

- Adds to Monitors (if detected) size (size: 277x156mm

(10.9x6.1")). Note that this is the real physical monitor size,

not the Xorg Screen/Wayland Display size, which can be quite dif‐

ferent (1 Xorg Screen / Wayland Display can for instance contain

two or more monitors).

- Adds to Monitors modes: min: max: (if detected). These are the

smallest and largest monitor modes found, using an inexact

method, so might not always be right.

- Adds to Monitors serial: number (if detected).

- For EGL, shows hardware based driver(s) (hw:), with the related

hardware, like AMD or Intel.

- For Vulkan, adds layer count, per device driver hardware vendor

(not displayed if device name is present with -a).

-I

- For Power: adds supported system power states:, active suspend:

type, active hibernate: type. See https://www.ker‐

nel.org/doc/html/v4.15/admin‐guide/pm/sleep‐states.html for full

explanation of states and actions.

- For Shell: adds (su|sudo|login) to shell name if present.

- For Shell: adds default: shell if different from running shell,

and default shell v:, if available.

- For running-in: adds (SSH) to parent, if present. SSH detection

uses the whoami test.

-J (--usb)

- Adds, if present, serial number for non hub devices.

- Adds interfaces: for non hub devices.

- Adds, if present, USB class ID.

- Adds, if non 0, max power in mA.

-m, --memory-modules

- Adds memory bus width: primary bus width, and if present, total

width. e.g.

width (bits): data: 64 total: 72

Note that total / data widths are mixed up sometimes in dmidecode

output, so inxi will take the larger value as the total if

present. Data width usually corresponds to the CPU bits. Total

can reflect EEC or Dual Channel widths. If no total width data is

found, shows:

width: N/A

- Adds device type detail, e.g. type: DDR3 detail: Synchronous.

- Adds device serial number.

- Adds memory module current, max, and min voltages, if they are

available and different from each other. If they are the identi‐

cal, displays same as -xxm voltage report. Use -ma to always see

them.

-M

- Adds, if present, board/chassis UUID, This is also activated by

--uuid.

-N

- Adds, if present, serial number.

- Adds, if present, PCI/USB class ID.

-R

- md-raid: Adds system mdraid support types (kernel support, read

ahead, RAID events)

- zfs-raid: Adds portion allocated (used) by RAID array/device.

- Hardware RAID: Adds rev, ports, and (if available and/or rele‐

vant) vendor: item, which shows specific vendor [product] infor‐

mation.

-S

- Adds current kernel clock source, if available (Linux only).

- Adds (if present), window manager (wm) version number.

- Adds, if in X, or with ‐‐display, bar/dock/menu/panel/tray com‐

ponents (with:). If none found, shows nothing. Examples: cairo‐

dock, docky, gnome-panel, lxpanel, tint2, trayer, lxqt-panel,

xfce4-panel and many others.

- Adds (if present) tools: item for all detected running screen‐

savers, screen lockers. Note that not all screen lockers run as

daemons/services, some are just programs called by other tools or

actions.

- Adds (if available, and in display), virtual terminal (vt) num‐

ber. These are the same as ctrl+alt+F[x] numbers usually. Some

systems have this, some don’t, it varies.

- Adds (if present), display/login manager (dm) version number.

-w

- Adds location (city state country), observation altitude (if

available), weather observation time (if available), sunset/sun‐

rise (if available).

ADMIN EXTRA DATA OPTIONS

These options are triggered with --admin or -a. Admin options are ad‐

vanced report options, and are more technical, and mostly of interest to

system administrators or other machine admins.

The --admin option sets -xxx, and only has to be used once. It will

trigger the following features:

-A - Adds, if present, possible alternate: kernel modules capable of

driving each Device-x (not including the current driver:). If no

non-driver modules found, shows nothing. NOTE: just because it

lists a module does NOT mean it is available in the system, it’s

just something the kernel knows could possibly be used instead.

- Adds PCIe generation, and, if different than running PCIe gen‐

eration, speed or lanes, link-max: gen: speed: lanes: (only items

different from primary shown).

- Adds list of detected audio server tools (tools: [tools]) to

API/Server lines, like alsamixer, jack_control, pactl, pavuctl,

pw‐cli, sndioctl, etc.

- Adds for USB devices USB mode (Linux only).

-C

- Adds CPU generation, process node, and built years, if de‐

tected. For Intel, only will show if Core generation, otherwise

the arch value is enough. For AMD, only shows Zen generation.

- Adds microarchitecture level: (v1,v2,v3,v4) (64 bit Intel/AMD

CPUs only). This information is used for setting compile time op‐

timization switches in for example GCC. These levels were intro‐

duced in 2020.

Because this a CPU flag based test, and these levels when > 2 are

not always 100% based on exposed CPU flags (eg OSXSAVE), for >

v2, adds note: check.

- Adds CPU family, model-id, and stepping (replaces rev of -Cx).

Format is hexadecimal (decimal) if greater than 9, otherwise

hexadecimal.

- Adds CPU microcode. Format is hexadecimal.

- Adds socket type (for motherboard CPU socket, if available). If

results doubtful will list two socket types and note: check. Re‐

quires doas/sudo/root and dmidecode. The item in parentheses may

simply be a different syntax for the same socket, but in general,

check this before trusting it.

Sample: socket: 775 (478) note: check

Sample: socket: AM4

- Adds DMI CPU base and boost/turbo speeds. Requires

doas/sudo/root and dmidecode. In some cases, like with overclock‐

ing or ’turbo’ or ’boost’ modes, voltage and external clock

speeds may be increased, or short term limits raised on max CPU

speeds. These are often not reflected in /sys based CPU min/max:

speed results, but often are using this source.

Samples:

CPU not overclocked, with boost, like Ryzen:

Speed (MHz):

avg: 2861

high: 3250

min/max: 1550/3400

boost: enabled

base/boost: 3400/3900

Overclocked 2900 MHz CPU, with no boost available:

Speed (MHz):

avg: 2345

high: 2900

min/max: 800/2900

base/boost: 3350/3000

Overclocked 3000 MHz CPU, with boosted max speed:

Speed (MHz):

avg: 3260

high: 4190

min/max: 1200/3001

base/boost: 3000/4000

Note that these numbers can be confusing, but basically, the base

number is the actual normal top speed the CPU runs at without

boost mode, and the boost number is the max speed the CPU reports

itself able to run at. The actual max speed may be higher than

either value, or lower. The boost number appears to be hard-coded

into the CPU DMI data, and does not seem to reflect actual max

speeds that overclocking or other combinations of speed boosters

can enable, as you can see from the example where the CPU is run‐

ning at a speed faster than the min/max or base/boost values.

Note that the normal min/max: speeds do NOT show actual over‐

clocked OR boost/turbo mode speeds, and appear to be hard-coded

values, not dynamic real values. The base/boost: values are some‐

times real, and sometimes not. base appears in general to be

real.

- Adds frequency scaling: governor:.. driver:.. if found/avail‐

able. Also adds scaling min/max speeds if different from standard

CPU min/max spees (not common).

- Adds description of cache topology per cpu. Linux only.

- Creates new Topology: line after the Info: line. Moves cache

data to this line from Info: line.

Topology line contains, if available and/or relevant: physical

CPU count (cpus:); per physical CPU dies:, clusters:, cores:;

threads per core, if > 1 (tpc:); how many threads: (if more

threads than cores); smt status (if no smt status found, shows

N/A).

Not all CPUs have or report dies or clusters. Some may have dies

but no clusters, some clusters but no dies, some dies and clus‐

ters, and some neither dies nor clusters. This is a function of

how the CPU topology reports itself to the kernel. Note that core

counts are per physical CPU, not per die or cluster. Clusters

are per die, and in cases of > 1 dies, will show as: clusters:

2x4.

If complex CPU type, like Alder lake, cores: will have a more

granular breakdown of how many mt (multi-threaded) and how many

st (single-threaded) cores there are in the physical cpu

(mt-cores:, st-cores:); For complex CPU types like ARM SoC de‐

vices with 2 CPU types, with different core counts and/or

min/max:) frequencies, variant: per type found, with relevant

differences shown, like cores:, min/max:, etc.

CPU:

Info:

model: AMD EPYC 7281

bits: 64

type: MT MCP MCM SMP

arch: Zen

gen: 1

level: v3

note: check

process: GF 14nm

built: 2017-19

family:0x17 (23)

model-id:1

stepping: 2

microcode: 0x8001250

Topology:

cpus: 2

dies: 4

cores: 16

threads: 32

tpc: 2

cache:

L1: 2x 1.5 MiB (3 MiB)

desc: d-16x32 KiB; i-16x64 KiB

L2: 2x 8 MiB (16 MiB)

desc: 16x512 KiB

L3: 2x 32 MiB (64 MiB)

desc: 8x4 MiB

Speed (MHz):

avg: 1195

high: 1197

min/max: 1200/2100

boost: enabled

scaling:

driver: acpi-cpufreq

governor: ondemand

cores:

1: 1195

2: 1196

....

bogomips: 267823

Or this Raptor Lake with 1 die, 4 clusters, and efficiency and

perforance cores:

CPU:

Info:

model: 13th Gen Intel Core i5‐1345U

bits: 64

type: MST AMCP

arch: Raptor Lake

level: v3

note: check

built: 2022+

process: Intel 7 (10nm)

family: 6

model‐id: 0xBA (186)

stepping: 3

microcode: 0x411C

Topology:

cpus: 1

dies: 1

clusters: 4

cores: 10

threads: 12

mt: 2

tpc: 2

st: 8

smt: enabled

cache:

L1: 928 KiB

desc: d‐8x32 KiB, 2x48 KiB; i‐2x32 KiB, 8x64 KiB

L2: 6.5 MiB

desc: 2x1.2 MiB, 2x2 MiB

L3: 12 MiB

desc: 1x12 MiB

Speed (MHz):

avg: 1535

high: 2820

min/max: 400/4700:3500

scaling:

driver: intel_pstate

governor: powersave

cores:

1: 0

2: 400

3: 429

4: 926

5: 1244

6: 1139

7: 2680

8: 1021

9: 2582

10: 2744

11: 2820

12: 2445

bogomips: 59904

Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx

- Adds CPU Vulnerabilities (bugs) as known by your current ker‐

nel. Lists by Type: ... (status|mitigation): .... for systems

that support this feature (Linux kernel 4.14 or newer, or patched

older kernels).

-d,-a -D

- Adds logical and physical block size in bytes.

Using smartctl (requires doas/sudo/root privileges).

- Adds device model family, like Caviar Black, if available.

- Adds SATA type (eg 1.0, 2.6, 3.0) if a SATA device.

- Adds device kernel major:minor number (Linux only).

- Adds SMART report line: status, enabled/disabled, health, pow‐

ered on, cycles, and some error cases if out of range values.

Note that for Pre-fail items, it will show the VALUE and THRESH‐

OLD numbers. It will also fall back for unknown attributes that

are or have been failing and print out the Attribute name, value,

threshold, and failing message. This way even for unhandled At‐

tribute names, you should get a solid report for full failure

cases. Other cases may show if inxi believes that the item may be

approaching failure. This is a guess so make sure to check the

drive and smartctl full output to verify before taking any fur‐

ther action.

- Adds, for USB or other external drives, actual model name/ser‐

ial if available, and different from enclosure model/serial, and

corrects block sizes if necessary.

- Adds for USB drives USB mode (Linux only).

- Adds in drive temperature for some drives as well, and other

useful data.

-E (--bluetooth)

- Adds (hciconfig only) extra line to Report:, Info:. Includes,

if available, ACL MTU, SCO MTU, Link policy, Link mode, and Ser‐

vice Classes.

- Adds PCIe generation, and, if different than running PCIe gen‐

eration, speed or lanes, link-max: gen: speed: lanes: (only items

different from primary shown. Bluetooth PCIe rare).

- Adds for USB devices USB mode (Linux only).

- Adds, if present, bluetooth status: discoverable, active dis‐

coverable, and pairing items.

-G - Adds, if present, possible alternate: kernel modules capable of

driving each Device-x (not including the current loaded:). If no

non-driver modules found, shows nothing. NOTE: just because it

lists a module does NOT mean it is available in the system, it’s

just something the kernel knows could possibly be used instead.

- Adds (AMD/Intel/Nvidia, if available) process: [node] built:

[years] to arch: item.

- Adds (if Linux and Nvidia device) non-free support information

(if available). This can be useful for forum support people to

determine if the card supports current active legacy Nvidia dri‐

ver branches, or if the card nonfree driver is EOL or active.

Note that if card is current, shows basic series and status.

Includes extended non free Nvidia legacy informatin (Linux and

Nvidia only), and arch: reports (AMD/Intel/Nvidia). Useful to

help diagnose driver support issues, shows extra data that can

help diagnose/debug. Adds code: item if found and not the same as

arch:.

- Adds for USB devices USB mode (Linux only).

inxi -Gaz

Graphics:

Device-1: NVIDIA NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] driver: nouveau v: kernel

non-free: 173.14.xx status: legacy (EOL) last: kernel: 3.12 xorg: 1.15

release: 173.14.39 arch: Rankine code: NV3x process: 130-150nm

built: 2003-05 ports: active: VGA-1 empty: DVI-I-1,TV-1

bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0322 class-ID: 0300

Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: nouveau

unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa alternate: nv,nvidia gpu: nouveau

display-ID: :0 screens: 1

With -y1:

inxi -Gaz -y1

Graphics:

Device-1: NVIDIA NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]

driver: nouveau

v: kernel

non-free:

series: 173.14.xx

status: legacy (EOL)

last:

kernel: 3.12

xorg: 1.15

release: 173.14.39

arch: Rankine

code: NV3x

process: 130-150nm

built: 2003-05

ports:

active: VGA-1

empty: DVI-I-1,TV-1

bus-ID: 01:00.0

chip-ID: 10de:0322

class-ID: 0300

- Adds PCIe generation, and, if different than running PCIe gen‐

eration, speed or lanes, link-max: gen: speed: lanes: (only items

different from primary shown).

- Adds to Monitors built:, gamma:, ratio: (if found).

- Adds to OpenGL device memory and unified status, if present.

- Adds to Vulkan full device report, with full device names, ids,

drivers, driver versions, surfaces.

- Adds Info: Tools: item. Tools are arranged into the following

categories: api: (for EGL, OpenGL, Vulkan etc.), de: (specific to

a desktop environment), gpu (GPU monitoring and tweaking), wl:

(Wayland specific), x11 (x11 specific).

X.org sample (with both xdpyinfo and xrandr data available), one

scaled monitor:

inxi -aGz

Graphics:

Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Cedar [Radeon HD

5000/6000/7350/8350 Series] vendor: XFX Pine driver: radeon

v: kernel alternate: amdgpu arch: TeraScale-2 code: Evergreen

process: TSMC 32-40nm built: 2009-15 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s

lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s ports:

active: DVI-I-1,VGA-1 empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 0b:00.0

chip-ID: 1002:68f9 class-ID: 0300 temp: 52.0 C

Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.14 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.3

compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.18.0 driver: X: loaded: modesetting

dri: r600 gpu: radeon display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1

Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2432x1024 s-dpi: 96

s-size: 641x270mm (25.24x10.63") s-diag: 696mm (27.38")

Monitor-1: DVI-I-1 pos: primary,left model: Samsung SyncMaster

serial: <filter> built: 2004 res: mode: 1280x1024 hz: 60

scale: 100% (1) gamma: 1.2 size: 338x270mm (13.31x10.63")

diag: 433mm (17") ratio: 5:4 modes: max: 1280x1024 min: 720x400

Monitor-2: VGA-1 pos: right model: Dell 1908FP serial: <filter>

built: 2008 res: mode: 1280x1024 hz: 60 scale: 111% (0.9)

to: 1152x922 dpi: 86 gamma: 1.4 size: 376x301mm (14.8x11.85")

diag: 482mm (19") ratio: 5:4 modes: max: 1280x1024 min: 720x400

API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: amd r600 platforms: device: 0 drv: r600

device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: r600

x11: drv: r600 inactive: wayland

API: OpenGL v: 4.5 vendor: mesa v: 24.2.4-1 glx-v: 1.4

direct-render: yes renderer: AMD CEDAR (DRM 2.50.0 /

6.11.5-1-liquorix-amd64 LLVM 19.1.1) device-ID: 1002:68f9

memory: 1000 MiB unified: no

API: Vulkan v: 1.3.296 layers: 3 device: 0 type: cpu

name: llvmpipe (LLVM 19.1.1 256 bits) driver: N/A

device-ID: 10005:0000 surfaces: xcb,xlib

Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo

de: xfce4-display-settings gpu: radeontop x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo,

xprop, xrandr

Wayland sample, with Sway/swaymsg, scaled monitor:

inxi -aGz

Graphics:

Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated

Graphics vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-6

code: Sandybridge process: Intel 32nm built: 2011 ports:

active: LVDS-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2,

HDMI-A-3, VGA-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0116 class-ID: 0300

Device-2: Chicony integrated camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB

rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-1.6:4

chip-ID: 04f2:b221 class-ID: 0e02

Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.13 compositor: Sway

v: 1.9 driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa

dri: crocus gpu: i915 display-ID: 1

Monitor-1: LVDS-1 model: AU Optronics 0x313c built: 2010 res:

mode: 1366x768 hz: 60 scale: 110% (1.1) to: 1241x698 dpi: 112

gamma: 1.2 size: 309x173mm (12.17x6.81") diag: 354mm (13.9")

ratio: 16:9 modes: 1366x768

API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel crocus platforms: device: 0

drv: crocus device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: crocus surfaceless:

drv: crocus wayland: drv: crocus inactive: x11

API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 3.3 vendor: mesa v: 24.2.4-1

note: incomplete (EGL sourced) renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics

3000 (SNB GT2), llvmpipe (LLVM 19.1.1 256 bits)

API: Vulkan v: 1.3.290 layers: 3 device: 0 type: cpu

name: llvmpipe (LLVM 19.1.1 256 bits) driver: N/A

device-ID: 10005:0000 surfaces: wayland

Info: Tools: api: eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo

de: xfce4-display-settings wl: swaymsg, wayland-info, wlr-randr

x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr

-I - Adds to Power: other hibernate and suspend available (avail:)

states, hibernate suspend image: size, and if any suspend fail‐

ures (fails:), how many.

- Adds power daemons/services (services:) running. Note not all

services are daemons.

- Adds to Packages number of lib packages detected per package

manager. Also adds detected package managers with 0 packages

listed. Adds package manager tools (supported: rpm, dpkg, pkg‐

tool) Moves to Repos if -ra.

- Adds service control tool, tested for in the following order:

systemctl rc-service rcctl service sv /etc/rc.d /etc/init.d. Can

be useful to know which you need when using an unfamiliar ma‐

chine.

inxi -aI

Info:

Memory: total: N/A available: 31.27 GiB used: 14.9 GiB (47.7%)

Processes: 651 Power: uptime: 8d 21h 32m states: freeze,mem,disk

suspend: deep avail: s2idle wakeups: 14 fails: 3 hibernate: platform

avail: shutdown,reboot,suspend,test_resume image: 12.49 GiB

services: upowerd,xfce4-power-manager Init: systemd v: 255

target: graphical (5) default: graphical tool: systemctl

Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 3960 libs: 2184 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude

pm: rpm pkgs: 0 Compilers: gcc: 13.2.0 alt: 5/6/8/9/10/11/12 Shell: Bash

v: 5.2.21 running-in: xfce4-terminal pinxi: 3.3.32

-j (--swap), -a -P [swap], -a -P [swap]

- Adds swappiness and vfs cache pressure, and a message to indi‐

cate if the value is the default value or not (Linux only, and

only if available). If not the default value, shows default value

as well, e.g.

For -P per swap physical partition:

swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 90 (default 100)

For -j row 1 report:

Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 90 (default 100)

- Adds zswap data for row 1 report:

zswap: [yes/no] compressor: [type] max‐pool: xx%

- Adds for zram swap type: active compression type, available

compression types, and max compression streams.

- Adds device kernel major:minor number (Linux only).

-J (--usb)

- Adds, if available, USB speed in IEC units MiB/s or GiB/s (may

be incorrect on BSDs due to non reliable data source). These are

base 2 Bytes per second.

- Adds USB mode (Linux only), which is the technical terms the

USB group uses to describe USB revisions. In cases where speed

and rev are an unknown combination, (and probably at least one is

wrong) shows message.

There are no granular data sources in BSDs for accurate revi‐

sion/lane/speed information, so mode cannot be determined.

Sample:

Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 14 rev: 2.0

speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002

class-ID: 0900

Device-1: 1‐4:2 info: Wacom ET-0405A [Graphire2 (4x5)] type: mouse

driver: usbhid,wacom interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s (183 KiB/s)

lanes: 1 mode: 1.0 power: 40mA chip-ID: 056a:0011 class-ID: 0301

Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 8 rev: 3.1

speed: 10 Gb/s (1.16 GiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-2x1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003

class-ID: 0900

Device-1: 2-8:5 info: SanDisk Ultra type: mass storage driver: usb-storage

interfaces: 1 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s (596.0 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1

power: 896mA chip-ID: 0781:5581 class-ID: 0806

serial: <filter>

-L (--logical)

- Expands Component report, shows size / maj‐min of components

and devices, and mapped name for logical components. Puts each

component/device on its own line.

- Adds maj‐min to LV and other devices.

-m - Expands volts to include curr/min/max values even if they are

all identical.

- Adds RAM module firmware version, if detected. Not common.

-n, -a -N, -a -i

- Adds, if present, possible alternate: kernel modules capable of

driving each Device-x (not including the current driver:). If no

non-driver modules found, shows nothing. NOTE: just because it

lists a module does NOT mean it is available in the system, it’s

just something the kernel knows could possibly be used instead.

- Adds PCIe generation, and, if different than running PCIe gen‐

eration, speed or lanes, link-max: gen: speed: lanes: (only items

different from primary shown).

- Adds for USB devices USB mode (Linux only).

- Adds Info: line (-n, -i only), with running network type ser‐

vices:. Note not all services are daemons. For example, Network‐

Manager can be started with --no-daemon flag.

-o - Adds device kernel major:minor number (Linux only).

-p,-a -P

- Adds raw partition size, including file system overhead, parti‐

tion table, e.g.

raw-size: 60.00 GiB.

- Adds percent of raw size available to size: item, e.g.

size: 58.81 GiB (98.01%).

Note that used: 16.44 GiB (34.3%) percent refers to the available

size, not the raw size.

- Adds partition filesystem block size if found (requires root

and blockdev).

- Adds device kernel major:minor number (Linux only).

-r - Adds to Packages: report. See -Ia

-R - Adds device kernel major:minor number (mdraid, Linux only).

- Adds, if available, component size, major:minor number (Linux

only). Turns Component report to 1 component per line.

-S - Adds alternate kernel clock sources, if available (Linux only).

- Adds kernel boot parameters to Kernel section (if detected).

Support varies by OS type.

- Adds advanced desktop (info:) item, and version. Currently sup‐

ports KDE Frameworks and version.

- Adds other available (avail:) screensavers/lockers in tools:

section. These are ones installed, but not necessarily active or

running.

--slots

- Adds PCI children of the main slot bus ID, and their types and

class IDs, recursively. Linux only, and only if detected. Sample:

Slot: 0

type: PCIe

lanes: 16

status: in use

length: long

volts: 3.3

bus-ID: 00:03.1

children:

1: 07:00.0

class-ID: 0300

type: display

2: 07:00.1

class-ID: 0403

type: audio

ADVANCED OPTIONS

40

Bypass Perl as a downloader option. Priority is: Perl

(HTTP::Tiny), Curl, Wget, Fetch, (OpenBSD only) ftp.

41

Bypass Curl as a downloader option. Priority is: Perl

(HTTP::Tiny), Curl, Wget, Fetch, (OpenBSD only) ftp.

42

Bypass Fetch as a downloader option. Priority is: Perl

(HTTP::Tiny), Curl, Wget, Fetch, (OpenBSD only) ftp.

43

Bypass Wget as a downloader option. Priority is: Perl

(HTTP::Tiny), Curl, Wget, Fetch, OpenBSD only: ftp

44

Bypass Curl, Fetch, and Wget as downloader options. This basi‐

cally forces the downloader selection to use Perl 5.x HTTP::Tiny,

which is generally slower than Curl or Wget but it may help by‐

pass issues with downloading.

[bluetoothctl|bt-adapter|btmgmt|hciconfig|rfkill]

See --force [tool name]. Used to set -E report tool.

Shortcut. See --force dig.

[:<integer>]

Will try to get display data out of X (does not usually work as

root user). Default gets display info from display :0. If you

use the format --display :1 then it would get it from display 1

instead, or any display you specify.

Note that in some cases, --display will cause inxi to hang end‐

lessly when running the option in console with Intel graphics.

The situation regarding other free drivers such as nouveau/ATI is

currently unknown. It may be that this is a bug with the Intel

graphics driver - more information is required.

You can test this easily by running the following command out of

X/display server: glxinfo -display :0

If it hangs, --display will not work.

--dmidecode

Shortcut. See --force dmidecode.

[curl|fetch|perl|wget]

Force inxi to use Curl, Fetch, Perl, or Wget for downloads.

Shortcut. See --force egl.

[option(s)]

Various force options to allow users to override defaults. Values

can be given as a comma separated list:

inxi -MJ --force dmidecode,lsusb

- bluetoothctl - Force use of bluetoothctl in -E.

- bt-adapter - Force use of bt-adapter tool in -E.

- btmgmt - Force use of btmgmt tool in -E.

- colors - Do not remove colors from piped or redirected output.

Same as -Y -2.

- cpuinfo - Force use of cpuinfo over sys for cpu data in -C.

- dig - Temporary override of NO_DIG configuration item. Only use

to test w/wo dig. Restores default behavior for WAN IP, which is

use dig if present.

- dmidecode - Force use of dmidecode. This will override /sys

data in some lines, e.g. -M or -B.

- egl - Force use of EGL graphics API even if internal rules

block it from running due to possible hanging. This is the case

sometimes with Intel 32 bit Pentium 4 era Gen2 and older GPUs,

but it’s not consistent.

- hciconfig - Force use of hciconfig tool in -E.

- hddtemp - Force use of hddtemp instead of /sys temp data for

disks.

- html-wan - Temporary override of NO_HTML_WAN configuration

item. Only use to test w/wo HTML downloaders for WAN IP. Restores

default behavior for WAN IP, which is use HTML downloader if

present and if dig failed.

- ifconfig - Force use of IF tool ifconfig for -i.

- ip - Force use of IF ip tool for -i (default).

- kscreen - Wayland: Force -G monitor data source kscreen‐con‐

sole.

- lsusb - Forces the USB data generator to use lsusb as data

source (default). Overrides USB_SYS in user configuration

file(s).

- man - Force update / install of man page with -U if pinxi or

using -U 3 dev branch. (Only active if -U is is not disabled by

maintainers). Default is to install always for inxi, and not for

pinxi.

- no-dig - Overrides default use of dig to get WAN IP address.

Allows use of normal downloader tool to get IP addresses. Only

use if dig is failing, since dig is much faster and more reliable

in general than other methods.

- no-doas - Skips the use of doas to run certain internal fea‐

tures (like hddtemp, file) with doas. Not related to running inxi

itself with doas/sudo or super user. Some systems will register

errors which will then trigger admin emails in such cases, so if

you want to disable regular user use of doas (which requires con‐

figuration to setup anyway for these options) just use this op‐

tion, or NO_DOAS configuration item. See --no-sudo if you need to

disable both types.

- no-egl - Skip eglinfo sourced EGL graphics API in -G. Use if

Graphics hangs or running a debugger data set which hangs due to

eglinfo bug ( only found on ancient Pentium 4 w/ Gen 2 GPUs).

- no-graphics-api - Skip graphics API in -G.

- no-html-wan - Overrides use of HTML downloaders to get WAN IP

address. Use either only dig, or do not get wan IP. Only use if

dig is failing, and the HTML downloaders are taking too long, or

are hanging or failing.

Make permanent with NO_HTML_WAN=’true’

- no-man - Disables man page install with -U for master and ac‐

tive development branches. (Only active if -U is is not disabled

by maintainers). No man install is default for pinxi. Man install

is default for inxi.

- no-opengl - Skip glxinfo sourced OpenGL graphics API in -G.

- no-ssl - Skip SSL certificate checks for all downloader actions

(-U, -w, -i). Use if your system does not have current SSL cer‐

tificate lists, or if you have problems making a connection for

any reason. Works with Wget, Curl, Perl HTTP::Tiny and Fetch.

- no-sudo - Skips the use of sudo to run certain internal fea‐

tures (like hddtemp, file) with sudo. Not related to running inxi

itself with sudo or superuser. Some systems will register errors

which will then trigger admin emails in such cases, so if you

want to disable regular user use of sudo (which requires configu‐

ration to setup anyway for these options) just use this option,

or NO_SUDO configuration item.

- no-vulkan - Skip vulkaninfo sourced Vulkan graphics API in -G.

- rfkill - Force use of rfkill tool in -E. rfkill does not sup‐

port mac address data.

- rpm, pkg - Override disabled rpm package counts on primarily

rpm run systems due to unacceptably slow execution times for this

command on some systems:

rpm -qa --nodigest --nosignature

Even on newer rpm systems, in virtual machines, running rpm pack‐

age list query takes more than 0.15 seconds (compared to 0.01 to

0.05 for dpkg, pacman, pkgtool etc) for just this single feature,

which is north of 10% of total execution time for inxi -bar. On

bare metal this can hit 1 second or more in our tests. Older

systems have taken up to 30 seconds to run this command!

For systems that support running rpm along with the primary pack‐

age installer (dpkg/apt, pacman, and pkgtool/slackpkg), there are

not going to be many rpms, if any, installed, so the command runs

in those cases (if inxi can determine it is running in that type

of system).

- sensors-sys - Force use of /sys/class/hwmon data for sensors

(excluding ipmi sensors, which are their own line if present),

skip lm-sensors. Generally useful for testing since sys data is

used if no lm-sensors data was found anyway, but if lm-sensors

was installed, and returned no data, it’s most likely if not

nearly certain that /sys will also not return data.

- swaymsg - Wayland: Force -G monitor data source swaymsg.

- udevadm - Forces use of udevadm as data source (currently -m

RAM data).

- usb-sys - Forces the USB data generator to use /sys as data

source instead of lsusb (Linux only).

- vmstat - Forces use of vmstat for memory data.

- wayland - Wayland: Force use of Wayland data sources, disables

x tools glxinfo, xrandr, xdpyinfo.

- wl-info - Wayland: Force -G monitor data source wayland-info or

weston-info.

- wlr-randr - Wayland: Force -G monitor data source wlr-randr.

- wmctrl - Force System item wm to use wmctrl as data source,

override default ps source.

--hddtemp

Shortcut. See --force hddtemp.

--html-wan

Shortcut. See --force --html-wan.

--ifconfig

Shortcut. See --force ifconfig.

Shortcut. See --force man.

--no-dig

Shortcut. See --force no-dig.

--no-doas

Shortcut. See --force no-doas.

--no-egl

Shortcut. See --force no-egl.

--no-html‐wan

Shortcut. See --force no-html‐wan.

--no-man

Shortcut. See --force no-man.

--no-opengl

Shortcut. See --force no-opengl.

--no-sensor-force

Overrides user set SENSOR_FORCE configuration value. Restores de‐

fault behavior.

--no-ssl

Shortcut. See --force no-ssl.

--no-sudo

Shortcut. See --force no-sudo.

[package manager name]

For distro package maintainers only, and only for non apt, rpm,

or pacman based systems. To be used to test replacement package

lists for recommends for that package manager.

--pkg

Shortcut. See --force rpm.

--sensors-default

Overrides configuration values SENSORS_USE or SENSORS_EXCLUDE on

a one time basis.

--sensors-exclude

Linux only. Similar to --sensors-use except removes listed sen‐

sors from sensor data. Make permanent with SENSORS_EXCLUDE con‐

figuration item. Note that gpu, network, disk, and other specific

device monitor chips are excluded by default.

Example: inxi -sxx --sensors-exclude k10temp‐pci‐00c3

--sensors-sys

Shortcut. See --force sensors-sys

--sensors-use

Linux only. Use only the (comma separated) sensor arrays for -s

report. Make permanent with SENSORS_USE configuration item. Sen‐

sor array ID value must be the exact value shown in lm-sensors

sensors output (lm‐sensors only) or use -s --dbg 18 (’main’ =>..

section) to see the sensor ID strings used internally. If you

only want to exclude one (or more) sensors from the report, use

--sensors-exclude.

Can be useful if the default sensor data used by inxi is not from

the right sensor array. Note that all other sensor data will be

removed, which may lead to undesired consequences. Please be

aware that this can lead to many undesirable side-effects, since

default behavior is to use all the sensors arrays and select

which values to use from them following a set sequence of rules.

So if you force one to be used, you may lose data that was used

from another one.

Most likely best use is when one (or two) of the sensor arrays

has all the sensor data you want, and you just want to make sure

inxi doesn’t use data from another array that has inaccurate or

misleading data.

Note that gpu, network, disk, and other specific device monitor

chips are excluded by default, and should not be added since they

do not provide cpu, board, system, etc, sensor data.

Example: inxi -sxx --sensors-use nct6791‐isa‐0290,k10temp‐

pci‐00c3

[0-x.x]

Usually in decimals. Change CPU sleep time for -C (current:

.35). Sleep is used to let the system catch up and show a more

accurate CPU use. Example:

inxi -Cxxx --sleep 0.15

Overrides default internal value and user configuration value:

CPU_SLEEP=0.25

Forces internal IRC flag to off. Used in unhandled cases where

the program running inxi may not be seen as a shell/pty/tty, but

it is not an IRC client. Put --tty first in option list to avoid

unexpected errors. If you want a specific output width, use the

option. If you want normal color codes in the output, use

the -c [color ID] flag.

The sign you need to use this is extra numbers before the

key/value pairs of the output of your program. These are IRC, not

TTY, color codes. Please post a codeberg.org issue if you find

you need to use --tty (including the full -Ixxx line) so we can

figure out how to add your program to the list of whitelisted

programs.

You can see what inxi believed started it in the -Ixxx line,

Shell: or Client: item. Please let us know what that result was

so we can add it to the parent start program whitelist.

In some cases, you may want to also use --no-filter/-Z option if

you want to see filtered values. Filtering is turned on by de‐

fault if inxi believes it is running in an IRC client.

--usb-sys

Shortcut. See --force usb-sys

--usb-tool

Shortcut. See --force lsusb

[URL]

Force -i to use supplied URL as WAN IP source. Overrides dig or

default IP source urls. URL must start with http[s] or ftp.

The IP address from the URL must be the last item on the last

(non-empty) line of the page content source code.

Same as configuration value (example):

WAN_IP_URL=’https://mysite.com/ip.php’

--wl

Shortcut. See --force wayland.

Shortcut. See --force wmctl.

DEBUGGING OPTIONS

{[1-x][,[1-x]]}

Accepts one or more comma separated dbg specific debugging num‐

bers.

1 - Debug downloader failures. Turns off silent/quiet mode for

curl, wget, and fetch. Shows more downloader action information.

Shows some more information for Perl downloader.

1-xx - See codeberg.org inxi-perl/docs/inxi-values.txt for spe‐

cific specialized debugging options. There are a lot.

[1-3]

- On screen debugger output.

10

- Basic logging. Check $XDG_DATA_HOME/inxi/inxi.log or $HOME/.lo‐

cal/share/inxi/inxi.log or $HOME/.inxi/inxi.log.

11

- Full file/system info logging.

20

Creates a tar.gz file of system data and collects the inxi report

in a file.

* tree traversal data file(s) read from /proc and /sys, and other

system data.

* xorg conf and log data, xrandr, xprop, xdpyinfo, glxinfo etc.

* data from dev, disks, partitions, etc.

21

Automatically uploads debugger data tar.gz file to ftp.smxi.org,

then removes the debug data directory, but leaves the debug

tar.gz file. See --ftp for uploading to alternate locations.

22

Automatically uploads debugger data tar.gz file to ftp.smxi.org,

then removes the debug data directory and the tar.gz file. See

for uploading to alternate locations.

[string]

Insert string to file name for debugger. This is helpful so you

can add for instance a username to a debugger dataset to make it

easy to find.

Sample: --debug 22 --debug-id mrmazda

--fake-data-dir

Developer only: Change default location of $fake_data_dir, which

is where files are for --fake {item} items.

[ftp.yoursite.com/incoming]

For alternate ftp upload locations: Example:

inxi --ftp ftp.yourserver.com/incoming --debug 21

DEBUGGING OPTIONS TO DEBUG DEBUGGER FAILURES

Only use the following in conjunction with --debug 2[012], and only use

if you experienced a failure or hang, or were instructed to do so.

--debug-proc

Force debugger to parse /proc directory data when run as root.

Normally this is disabled due to unpredictable data in /proc

tree.

--debug-proc-print

Use this to locate file that /proc debugger hangs on.

--debug-no-exit

Skip exit on error when running debugger.

--debug-no-proc

Skip /proc debugging in case of a hang.

--debug-no-sys

Skip /sys debugging in case of a hang.

--debug-sys

Force PowerPC debugger parsing of /sys as doas/sudo/root.

--debug-sys-print

Use this to locate file that /sys debugger hangs on.

SUPPORTED IRC CLIENTS

BitchX, Gaim/Pidgin, ircII, Irssi, Konversation, Kopete, KSirc, KVIrc,

Weechat, and Xchat. Plus any others that are capable of displaying ei‐

ther built-in or external program output.

RUNNING IN IRC CLIENT

To trigger inxi output in your IRC client, pick the appropriate method

from the list below:

Hexchat, XChat, Irssi

(and many other IRC clients) /exec -o inxi [options] If you don’t

include the -o, only you will see the output on your local IRC

client.

Konversation

/cmd inxi [options]

To run inxi in Konversation as a native program if your distribu‐

tion or inxi package hasn’t already done this for you, create

this symbolic link:

KDE 4: ln -s /usr/local/bin/inxi /usr/share/kde4/apps/konversa‐

tion/scripts/inxi

KDE 5: ln -s /usr/local/bin/inxi /usr/share/konversa‐

tion/scripts/inxi

If inxi is somewhere else, change the path /usr/local/bin to

wherever it is located.

If you are using KDE/QT 5, then you may also need to add the fol‐

lowing to get the Konversation /inxi command to work:

ln -s /usr/share/konversation /usr/share/apps/

Make sure you also have the qdbus-qt5 package (Debian/Ubuntu +

derived), qt5-qttools (Fedora/RHEL/SUSE + derived), qt5-tools

(Arch + derived) installed (for KDE 5/QT 5, check distros for fu‐

ture package names), qt5-tools (Arch + derived). Check your dis‐

tro if the program is missing. Depending on the distro,

/usr/lib/qt5/bin/qdbus is required, which in Debian+ is provided

by the above package.

Then you can start inxi directly, like this:

/inxi [options]

WeeChat

NEW: /exec -o inxi [options]

OLD: /shell -o inxi [options]

Newer (2014 and later) WeeChats work pretty much the same now as

other console IRC clients, with /exec -o inxi [options]. Newer

WeeChats have dropped the -curses part of their program name,

i.e.: weechat instead of weechat-curses.

CONFIGURATION FILE

inxi will read its configuration/initialization files in the following

order:

/etc/inxi.conf contains the default configurations. These can be over‐

ridden by creating a /etc/inxi.conf.d/inxi.conf file (global override),

which will prevent distro packages from changing or overwriting your ed‐

its. This method is recommended if you are using a distro packaged inxi

and want to override some global configuration items from the package’s

default /etc/inxi.conf file but don’t want to lose your changes on a

package update.

In case the distro is using either /usr/etc or /usr/local/etc as non

core tool default location, inxi will use those paths instead, with the

inxi.conf.d/inxi.conf override option.

You can also override, per user, with a user configuration file found in

one of the following locations (inxi will store its config file using

the following precedence):

if $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not empty, it will go there, else if $HOME/.con‐

fig/inxi.conf exists, it will go there, and as a last default, the

legacy location is used), i.e.:

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/inxi.conf > $HOME/.config/inxi.conf >

$HOME/.inxi/inxi.conf > /usr/etc/inxi.conf >

/usr/etc/inxi.conf.d/inxi.conf > /usr/local/etc/inxi.conf > /usr/lo‐

cal/etc/inxi.conf.d/inxi.conf > /etc/inxi.conf.d/inxi.conf >

/etc/inxi.conf

CONFIGURATION OPTIONS

See the documentation page for more complete information on how to set

these up, and for a complete list of options:

https://smxi.org/docs/inxi-configuration.htm

Basic Options

Here’s a brief overview of the basic options you are likely to

want to use:

COLS_MAX_CONSOLE The max display column width on terminal. If

terminal/console width or --width is less than wrap width, wrap‐

ping of line starter occurs

COLS_MAX_IRC The max display column width on IRC clients.

COLS_MAX_NO_DISPLAY The max display column width in out of X /

Wayland / desktop / window manager.

CPU_SLEEP Decimal value 0 or more. Default is usually around 0.35

seconds. Time that inxi will ’sleep’ before getting CPU speed

data, so that it reflects actual system state.

DOWNLOADER Sets default inxi downloader: curl, fetch, ftp, perl,

wget. See --recommends output for more information on download‐

ers and Perl downloaders.

FILTER_STRING Default <filter>. Any string you prefer to see in‐

stead for filtered values.

INDENT Change primary indent width of wide mode output. See --in‐

dent.

INDENTS Change primary indents of narrow wrapped mode output, and

second level indents. See --indents.

LIMIT Overrides default of 10 IP addresses per IF. This is only

of interest to sys admins running servers with many IP addresses.

LINES_MAX Values: [-2-xxx]. See -Y for explanation and values.

Use -Y -3 to restore default unlimited output lines. Avoid using

this in general unless the machine is a headless system and you

want the output to be always controlled.

MAX_WRAP (or WRAP_MAX) The maximum width where the line starter

wraps to its own line. If terminal/console width or --width is

less than wrap width, wrapping of line starter occurs. Overrides

default. See --max-wrap. If 80 or less, wrap will never happen.

NO_DIG Set to 1 or true to disable WAN IP use of dig and force

use of alternate downloaders.

NO_DOAS Set to 1 or true to disable internal use of doas.

NO_HTML_WAN Set to 1 or true to disable WAN IP use of HTML Down‐

loaders and force use of dig only, or nothing if dig disabled as

well. Same as --no-html-wan. Only use if dig is failing, and HTML

downloaders are hanging.

NO_SUDO Set to 1 or true to disable internal use of sudo.

PARTITION_SORT Overrides default partition report sort. See

for options.

PS_COUNT The default number of items showing per -t type, m or c.

Default is 5.

SENSORS_CPU_NO In cases of ambiguous temp1/temp2 (inxi can’t fig‐

ure out which is the CPU), forces sensors to use either value 1

or 2 as CPU temperature. See the above configuration page on

smxi.org for full info.

SENSORS_EXCLUDE Exclude supplied sensor array[s] from sensor re‐

port. Override with --sensors-default. See --sensors-exclude.

SENSORS_USE Use only supplied sensor array[s]. Override with

See --sensors-use.

SEP2_CONSOLE Replaces default key / value separator of ’:’. Test

with --separator.

USB_SYS Forces all USB data to use /sys instead of lsusb.

WAN_IP_URL Forces -i to use supplied URL, and to not use dig (dig

is generally much faster). URL must begin with http or ftp. Note

that if you use this, the downloader set tests will run each time

you start inxi whether a downloader feature is going to be used

or not.

The IP address from the URL must be the last item on the last

(non-empty) line of the URL’s page content source code.

Same as --wan-ip-url [URL]

WEATHER_SOURCE Values: [0‐9]. Same as --weather-source. Values

4-9 are not currently supported, but this can change at any time.

WEATHER_UNIT Values: [m|i|mi|im]. Same as --weather-unit.

Color Options

It’s best to use the -c [94-99] color selector tool to set the

following values because it will correctly update the configura‐

tion file and remove any invalid or conflicting items, but if you

prefer to create your own configuration files, here are the op‐

tions. All take the integer value from the options available in

94-99.

NOTE: All default and configuration file set color values are re‐

moved when output is piped or redirected. You must use the ex‐

plicit -c [color number] option if you want colors to be present

in the piped/redirected output (creating a PDF for example).

CONSOLE_COLOR_SCHEME The color scheme for console output (not in

X/Wayland).

GLOBAL_COLOR_SCHEME Overrides all other color schemes.

IRC_COLOR_SCHEME Desktop X/Wayland IRC CLI color scheme.

IRC_CONS_COLOR_SCHEME Out of X/Wayland, IRC CLI color scheme.

IRC_X_TERM_COLOR_SCHEME In X/Wayland IRC client terminal color

scheme.

VIRT_TERM_COLOR_SCHEME Color scheme for virtual terminal output

(in X/Wayland).

Developer Options

These are useful only for developers.

FAKE_DATA_DIR - change default fake data directory location. See

--fake-data-dir.

BUGS

Please report bugs using the following resources.

You may be asked to run the inxi debugger tool (see --debug 21/22),

which will upload a data dump of system files for use in debugging inxi.

These data dumps are very important since they provide us with all the

real system data inxi uses to parse out its report.

Issue Report

File an issue report: https://codeberg.org/smxi/inxi/issues

Forums Post on inxi forums: https://techpatterns.com/forums/fo‐

rum-33.html

IRC irc.oftc.net / irc.libera.chat

You can also visit channel: #smxi to post issues on either net‐

work.

HOMEPAGE

https://codeberg.org/smxi/inxi

- Home of inxi source repository

https://codeberg.org/smxi/pinxi

- Home of pinxi (inxi development version), docs and data.

https://smxi.org/docs/inxi.htm

- The main docs for inxi. See pinxi repository for more technical re‐

sources.

https://fosstodon.org/@smxi

- Follow @smxi on Mastodon!

AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS TO CODE

inxi is a fork of locsmif’s very clever infobash script.

Original infobash author and copyright holder: Copyright (C) 2005-2007

Michiel de Boer aka locsmif

inxi version: Copyright (C) 2008-2025 Harald Hope

This man page was originally created by Gordon Spencer (aka aus9) and is

maintained by Harald Hope (aka h2 or TechAdmin).

Initial CPU logic, konversation version logic, occasional maintenance

fixes, and the initial xiin.py tool for /sys parsing (obsolete, but

still very much appreciated for all the valuable debugger data it helped

generate): Scott Rogers

Further fixes (listed as known):

Horst Tritremmel <hjt at sidux.com>

Steven Barrett (aka: damentz) - USB audio patch; swap percent used

patch.

Jarett.Stevens - dmidecode -M patch for older systems with no /sys.

SPECIAL THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING

The nice people at irc.oftc.net channels #linux-smokers-club and #smxi,

who all really have to be considered to be co-developers because of

their non-stop enthusiasm and willingness to provide real-time testing

and debugging of inxi development over the years.

LinuxQuestions.org Slackware forum members, for major help with develop‐

ment and debugging new or refactored features, particularly the redone

CPU logic of 2021-12.

Siduction forum members, who have helped get some features working by

providing a large number of datasets that have revealed possible varia‐

tions, particularly for the RAM -m option.

AntiX users and admins, who have helped greatly with testing and debug‐

ging, particularly for the 3.0.0 release.

ArcherSeven (Max), Brett Bohnenkamper (aka KittyKatt), and Iotaka, who

always manage to find the weirdest or most extreme hardware and setups

that help make inxi much more robust.

For the vastly underrated skill of report error/glitch catching, Pete

Haddow. His patience and focus in going through inxi repeatedly to find

errors and inconsistencies is much appreciated.

For a huge boost to BSD support, Stan Vandiver, who did a lot of testing

and setup many remote access systems for testing and development.

For testing, bug finding, suggestions, feature requests, MrMazda. He has

over the years has helped shape inxi into what it is today, in particu‐

lar but not limited to, the Graphics features.

All the inxi package maintainers, distro support people, forum modera‐

tors, and in particular, sys admins with their particular issues, which

almost always help make inxi better, and any others who contribute

ideas, suggestions, and patches.

Without a wide range of diverse Linux kernel-based Free Desktop systems

to test on, we could never have gotten inxi to be as reliable and solid

as it’s turning out to be.

And of course, a big thanks to locsmif, who figured out a lot of the

core ideas, logic, and tricks originally used in inxi Gawk/Bash.

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