Nvidia and Steam

[GreyGeek]

I had installed nvidia-390 from the repository and it installed fine and gave me a desktop running on my GT 650M GPU. Very fast.

I downloaded the latest steam deb package and installed it, then ran it. Nothing happened. Normally the Steam app would open a connection to your steam account and let you play or download what ever you purchased. Steam support told me to click on "my inventory" to see or play my purchases. That link was inactive. I ran steam from a Konsole to see what msgs were left behind. One line indicated a problem with libnvidia-gl-390. A little dorking revealed that I should run the followin:

sudo apt install libnvidia-gl-390:i386

I did that and restarted Steam. It immediately presented me with its GUI and I logged into Steam and was able to install Universe Sandbox and Kerbel Space to my SSD. Playing with Uinverse Sandbox I noticed the orbital pathways looked like a zigsag sewing machine stitch. I wondered what other libraries were missing the :386 treatment? I found three:

sudo apt install libnvidia-encode:i386
sudo apt install libnvidia-encode-390:i386
sudo apt install libnvidia-ifr1-390:i386

Fixing those I restarted Universe Sandbox and the orbital paths were nice smooth curves.


I also had a problem with the Thermal Monitor widget throwing a ton of warnings.

plasmashell[962]: qml: temp unit: 0

One fix was in

~/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.thermalMonitor/contents/code/temperature-utils.js

where

function getTemperatureStr(celsiaDouble, temperatureUnit) {
print('temp unit: ' + temperatureUnit)

was changed to

function getTemperatureStr(celsiaDouble, temperatureUnit) {
dbgprint('temp unit: ' + temperatureUnit)


Just to be sure I added the following lines to the bottom of /etc/profile


QT_LOGGING_RULES='*.debug=false'
export QT_LOGGING_RULES

That cleaned up the logging so now my log files won't grow out of hand.

I moved to Neon to be closer to the leading edge. Closer I am, and having fun!

[claydoh]

My that's a lot of work
One of the reasons I moved away from Nvidia, and to a AMD card. No proprietary drivers, no regular futzing with this sort of thing for sensors, and games play quite nicely.

I have Doom Eternal's recent 6.66 update calling my name, haven't tried out the new Horde Mode lololol


With the new Plasma version, you might check out the System Monitor Sensor widget. Quite configurable, you could make a completely custom widget
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[GreyGeek]

I already have that widget on my panel. But, it doesn't display just the temps for the CPU, GPU, and my two SSD's