How is steam normally ran?

Yamakuzure · Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2015 8:54 am Post subject:

I've been using steam using the manual route for ages now and never ran into any problems. Starting games using my nvidia discrete card via bumblebee works well.

Why are people still insisting to use steam-meta?
Steam is an all-for-the-using-user install anyway. And so far, apart from causing a plethora of trouble, nobody ever could answer the question what an advantage the ebuild has, anyway.
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Bladesy · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Apr 2015 Posts: 113

Sorry for going a bit slient there, but I was trying a few fixes and I think I broke Xorg. It wouldn't let me load up my WM, so I decided it would be quicker for a reinstall than trying to remember what I could've done to break my system. The first thing I did was try to install steam, but I got the exact same error.
It just doesn't seem to be happening.
I guess I could just install it wine, this PC should handle simple games okay I think, since wine isn't emulating - hopefully they're still playable after the performance hit.

Chiitoo · Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2015 8:01 pm Post subject:

Steam things work very well with Wine, but I think I would still suggest trying the native client (too).

Did you install Steam via the ebuild this time, or did you try the manual method, following the guide at the wikki? That's probably what I would suggest next if you were still unable to get the ebuild-method to work.

As for your X problems, I'd imagine it could have been because of the configuration files you created (or changed). Intel generally shouldn't need any xorg.conf file, but if one wants to do special things like switch from the acceleration method to another (which was suggested), then a configuration file is usually the way to go.

I still stick to ye olde /etc/X11/xorg.conf instead of the directories.

You did not mention if you checked dmesg after the error. There might be a hint there (though I doubt it a little).
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Bladesy · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Apr 2015 Posts: 113

I tried all methods in my last gentoo install, but this time I just tried the manual method. I've no more X problems after the new gentoo install, but I think I should just give up on the native client - I might get less performance overall, but I guess I've got a bigger range of games to try.

micko · Posted: Tue May 19, 2015 6:57 pm Post subject:

Chiitoo · Posted: Thu May 21, 2015 8:36 am Post subject:

micko,

Indeed that what I wrote about only happened when more than one user would run Steam in the same environment, and if the file was left laying about (which may have now changed). I think it was apparent from the terminal output as well, but regardless, it shouldn't be an issue when only one user is creating the files.

From a quick look at the output, I'd wager a guess that you're missing 32-bit libraries that Steam requires. This might be backed up by the fact that you recently got rid of the emul-linux-packages, and that you're using STEAM_RUNTIME=0.

What happens with STEAM_RUNTIME=1? I'm not overly familiar with the dependencies as I normally have this enabled myself.

Do games outside Steam work? Perhaps check the usual suspects such as Xorg.0.log, eselect opengl, and glxinfo.
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micko · Posted: Fri May 22, 2015 11:41 am Post subject:

I'm running Steam with STEAM_RUNTIME=1 (or actually without it, because it's 1 by default). Someone here suggested to try STEAM_RUNTIME=0 to find reason for problems. That's why I tried it. Now that I read my post again, I wasn't so clear about that...

Here's the console output when running normally: http://pastebin.com/1NG0DhAb

Steam window and Update News opens just fine, but they're either extremely slow or totally unresponsive. Moving the cursor over "Library"-word might highlight it (after a while) but clicking never does anything.

OpenGL is working just fine and no suspicious errors in Xorg.0.log.
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Naib · Posted: Fri May 22, 2015 12:20 pm Post subject:

what are those font errors?
what is the output of eselect fontconfig list

Chiitoo · Posted: Fri May 22, 2015 2:00 pm Post subject:

micko · Posted: Fri May 22, 2015 3:26 pm Post subject:

Chiitoo · Posted: Wed May 27, 2015 12:47 pm Post subject: