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l2k-Shadow

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Registered: 2014-06-30

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[SOLVED] Starting steam garbles screen

Hey guys I have a problem running the linux version of steam on arch. It completely crashes X or garbles my screen as such:
http://i62.tinypic.com/xm7s5t.png

I have a feeling it has to do steam trying to set the resolution to some weird value. sadly logs do not turn up anything, or perhaps I don't know what to look for.

I am using intel HD 4600 graphics. Here might be some useful output from glxinfo:

$ glxinfo|grep -Ei "direct rendering|opengl"
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Haswell Mobile
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 10.2.1
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 3.30
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 10.2.1
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL extensions:

and only thing I have in 20-intel.conf is:
$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf
Section "Device"
  Identifier "Intel Graphics"
  Driver "intel"
  Option "TearFree" "true"
EndSection

Help please?

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Last edited by l2k-Shadow (2014-06-30 21:55:18)

ugjka

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Re: [SOLVED] Starting steam garbles screen

either downgrade you intel driverrs or try uxa or glamor https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … ion_method. both uxa and glamor are slower than the default sna, so switch back when this problem is fixed

somewhat related topic https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=183285

Last edited by ugjka (2014-06-30 07:51:39)

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l2k-Shadow

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Registered: 2014-06-30

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Re: [SOLVED] Starting steam garbles screen

Thank you so much! I tried uxa which solved the problem; however introduced many new problems - namely tearing of video and also in games (even with the TearFree option). So I kept SNA but downgraded the xf86-video-intel package to version 2.99.911-2 which solved the issue as well. This seems to be the best option at the moment.