Steam on Arch Linux.

buntolo · 2012-12-21 20:15:58

I use XFCE as DE.
I want to start Steam in a new openbox server so that I can browse folder and so on.
I can start Steam in a new server with

xinit $Steam_path -- :1

But I can't start a new openbox session in another X server with

xinit openbox -- :1

.

Another problem I have is that Steam opened in a new server has no audio.

Gordon · 2013-01-21 10:00:24

A pleasant surprise.
Installed steam for linux from the AUR ( steam 1.0.0.22-2).
Logged in and got the request for entering the email info from valve for a new machine.
Entered it and up it came.

I had Serious Sam 3 installed on a XP system which I was able to install/download (about 5gig)
and it works like a charm.

hardware description:
Motherboard G31M-S. ASRock with Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5700 @ 3.00GHz RAM - 3gig
NVIDIA Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 430] (rev a1)
Linux 3.6.11-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Dec 18 12:58:46 CET 2012 i686 GNU/Linux

The system is up to date using XFCE and the Nvidia binary driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86-310.19.run

PLANTROON · 2013-02-02 09:29:30

I have no sound in Red Orchestra

EDIT: Solved by removing a few ".so" files in ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common ... Now I have a question... what happens if I remove them all ??

Last edited by PLANTROON (2013-02-02 15:00:10)

kar · 2013-02-02 18:33:50

PLANTROON wrote:

I have no sound in Red Orchestra

I had the same problem with Team-Fortress 2 and this was the solution:

SDL_AUDIODRIVER="alsa" steam steam://rungameid/520

The last number (->520) is depending on the game. You can make a desktop-shortcut (Steam-Bibliothek -> rightclick on the game) and than you can open the *.desktop file on your desktop and you can see the executable-link with the right number.

EDIT: Solved by removing a few ".so" files in ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common ... Now I have a question... what happens if I remove them all ??

I don't know!

Last edited by kar (2013-02-02 19:11:37)

Nekroman · 2013-02-04 20:04:56

Is there anyone who is on 64bit system and can play games through steam? My problem started a week ago. Now i can't run any of my games with segfault.

WorMzy · 2013-02-04 21:20:17

Works fine here. I can play:

Team Fortress 2
Half Life
FTL
Counter Strike
Space Pirates and Zombies

Try reinstalling your lib32-glibc.

Nekroman · 2013-02-05 15:38:00

No it didn't help.

Nekroman · 2013-02-05 15:49:19

It shows me this:

This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 124 error_code 9 request_code 14 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

WorMzy · 2013-02-05 15:56:06

Is this a game, or the Steam client itself?

Nekroman · 2013-02-05 17:23:16

Game. Team Fortres 2. Steam is running fine.
//Edit: I have nVidia card with optimus.

Last edited by Nekroman (2013-02-05 18:17:59)

miscsubbin · 2013-02-05 22:21:41

Anyone able to play with Awesome WM? I get blackscreens with everything.

divansantana · 2013-02-06 21:42:23

Nekroman wrote:

It shows me this:

This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 124 error_code 9 request_code 14 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

Have the exact issue.
Also nvidia with optimus.
Running 'optimus steam' and counter strike source crashes with the same error.

divansantana · 2013-02-06 21:58:15

divansantana wrote:

Nekroman wrote:

It shows me this:

This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 124 error_code 9 request_code 14 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

Have the exact issue.
Also nvidia with optimus.
Running 'optimus steam' and counter strike source crashes with the same error.

Ok I can run Counter Strike now, by installing lib32-libtxc_dxtn and libtxc_dxtn and not using optirun. Obviously less than ideal but it works so far.

smudge · 2013-02-08 04:55:35

buntolo wrote:

I use XFCE as DE.
I want to start Steam in a new openbox server so that I can browse folder and so on.
I can start Steam in a new server with
xinit $Steam_path -- :1
But I can't start a new openbox session in another X server with
xinit openbox -- :1
.
Another problem I have is that Steam opened in a new server has no audio.

It seems we now need to be properly authorised in new ttys. Try creating a new custom .xinitrc (~/.mynew-xinitrc or something) containing (at the end) "exec openbox-session", make it executable.

Switch to a new tty, login then run "startx /path/to/.mynew-xinitrc". Openbox should work and Steam should have sound.

Works for me

miscsubbin wrote:

Anyone able to play with Awesome WM? I get blackscreens with everything.

AwesomeWM and Steam seem very happy together here.

Last edited by smudge (2013-02-08 04:56:21)

kanikuleet · 2013-02-08 09:13:25

tested it yesterday on x86_64 with xmonad and it worked like a charm out of the box

Aoko · 2013-02-08 17:06:12

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamC … 5449094039

- Added license to allow repackaging for other Linux distributions

I guess we can expect to see steam back into the repo soon?

ChemBro · 2013-02-08 22:16:17

Already in. :-)

JMK · 2013-02-09 08:26:28

So I ran pacman -Syu tonight, and with the latest version of Steam (from the repos), I get this from stdout:

➜  ~  /usr/bin/steam %U     
Running Steam on arch  64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1360379549_client)
Looks like steam didn't shutdown cleanly, scheduling immediate update check
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1360379549_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1360379549_client)
unlinked 0 orphaned pipes
removing stale semaphore last operated on by process 1830 with name 0eBlobRegistryMutex_B51638141A06AA38BDC62C91D113A94C
removing stale semaphore last operated on by process 1830 with name 0eBlobRegistrySignal_B51638141A06AA38BDC62C91D113A94C
removing stale semaphore last operated on by process 1830 with name 0emSteamEngineInstance
removing stale semaphore last operated on by process 1830 with name 0eSteamEngineLock

(steam:1997): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",
/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:989: error: unexpected identifier `direction', expected character `}'
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1360379549_client)
[0209/002326:WARNING:proxy_service.cc(646)] PAC support disabled because there is no system implementation
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1360379549_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1360379549_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1360379549_client)
Uploading dump (in-process) [proxy '']
/tmp/dumps/crash_20130209002327_1.dmp
success = yes
response:  CrashID=bp-892c82bc-b54d-44ef-a5ad-7c5ab2130209
/home/jason/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 561:  1997 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$PLATFORM/$STEAMEXE" "$@"

Any ideas?

JMK · 2013-02-09 09:07:38

Ah, so to answer my own question, it looks related to this bug: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam- … t-12921695

Starting steam with...

STEAM_RUNTIME=0 steam

works as a temp fix.

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