Native Steam client and source game engine

[ddio]

Hi,

I'm using steam streaming client for the games which do not run under linux, and everytime I start it I get these messages:

[Chiitoo]

It's been quiet here for a while, so I figured it's time to make some noise, as I'm almost certain this will be of interest to some:

2017-12-07 at steamcommunity.com/linux - Platform-specific wishlisting

In short, there is a platform-specific wishlisting section the game developers will see, and as a user, we can make a difference by filtering games for Linux only in our Store Settings, and adding a title into our wishlist.

Quite a simple little thing to make things stand out a bit more, I maybe guess. :]

How much this will affect anything, we can only guess, but I know I added some items back to my wishlist after setting the filter (and re-added others for good measure).
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Kindest of regardses.

[n05ph3r42]

Hi there.
I've tried to use https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Steam#Chroot manual to use stem via x86 rootfs, but achieved this error:

[n05ph3r42]

Well. This script cant run anything on X without xhost.
Emerge xhost and add

[Hu]

Why open the X server to everything on localhost? You are already scripting the setup, so you could instead copy just the X11 authentication cookie you need into the chroot.

Likewise, it is not recommended to "use linux32 before any chroot command." Rather, it is recommended to use linux32 when calling chroot to enter a 32-bit chroot. If the target chroot is 64-bit, using linux32 will make things worse, not better.

[n05ph3r42]

[n05ph3r42]

[threadau]

I'm also working through the chroot guide, and having some issues.
After I run the script, all my terminals are messed up (can't su/sudo or open a new session):

• su -- "su: must be run from a terminal"
  
• sudo -- "sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified"
  
• new sessions -- "Server refused to allocate pty"
  

I think it might be from the rbind mount/unmounts? The Arch wiki has a warning against using rbinds in this use case:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/change_root#Using_chroot

[threadau]

In hindsight - I'm surprised that the 32bit chroot guide is not referenced in the steam article:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:AMD64/32-bit_Chroot_Guide

(It seems to use all "mount -o bind" calls.)

[n05ph3r42]

From my experience with chroot 32 for steam, I noticed that steam is not working right with linux32. Steam browser said that 32-bit environment is not supported, or something like that. Steam works but show no embedded frames.And i wasn't able to start any program from steam, because GUI was inaccesible in fact, except main window.
So it seems you should NOT use linux32 for steam chroot.

I tired of this and moved back to multilib.

As for xhost AFAIK it allow to connect to local X session from chrooted env, dbus check is just for check is dbus already running, to run it if it is not.

[kwarakwara]

Sorry if this doesn't belong here, but I recently had my machine "randomly" reboot after the Steam update that changed the chat. I was able to fix it by turning off all sound notifications. If this a bad post do warn me and I'll delete.

[Ant P.]

[kwarakwara]

[Ant P.]

I've had steam crash for weird audio-related reasons lately as well, but not the entire machine. Do you have the kernel configured to reboot on panic? (cat /proc/sys/kernel/panic) That'd explain the reboots, though turning it off won't make the crashes go away.

[shadywack]

Why isn't Steam in the portage tree?

[Juippisi]

Just wanted to let people know and say that I tried this:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/221410#announcements/detail/1696055855739350561

and many games are indeed working out-of-the box. Did get errors with few older games and japanese VNs (probably due to some wine-localization things)

But it's looking good! The only bad thing is, if you enable steam-beta you get many updates to it daily :)

[jagdpanther]

Juippisi:

If you don't want all of those updates, in each game's properties, under the "update" tab, you can switch the "automatic updates" to "Only update this game when I launch it." In your steam library, as long as you do not use grid view, the games that will need updating will be listed in blue text so it is easy to know if you will need an update before your play.

I have a question for you. I am using the steam-overlay via Layman and have followed the instructions https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Steam . Including that long list of packages that need the abi_x86_32 use flag set. I switched to the new Linux beta steam client and when I try to play "windows" versions of games my entire steam client crashes. (I tried Fallen Enchantress and Skyrim.) Linux games still work (ex: Tomb Raider)
Do you have 'ABI_X86="64 32"' set in your /etc/portage/make.conf file? (I am getting errors like "Failed to open digital audio driver Couldn't open OAL device." and am wondering if I need more 32-bit support.)

[shadywack]

[Naib]

[Juippisi]

[Naib]

scrap that, got it working, both of them and well my kids and I lost the entire afternoon playing lego:incredibles
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[arnvidr]

Anything particular that was wrong?
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[AndrewLong]

When I try to start the Steam client, the client window never appears. The auto updater appears and seems to work, occasionally downloading updates.

Here's the console output when I try to run the client:
(I've deleted some "Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1539393410)" lines to make it a bit shorter)

[netfab]

Hi guys,

I post it here, because I (more or less) fought this crash for months.
Native Team Fortress 2 is crashing with segfault right after starting if system's app-crypt/p11-kit is built with abi_x86_32.

Links :
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1. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Steam/Games_troubleshooting#Team_Fortress_2
2. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Source-1-Games/issues/2619

[vyedmic]

I am at loss, this is the only result - no matter whether using steam-meta from steam-overlay or trying manually as per the wiki.