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I really want to sign up but because I use Bumblebee for Optimus support I would be a poor candidate and would need to lie to get on the survey. Optirun is really bad with steam unlike most games. Hopefully somebody will figure it out soon enough.
Valve: "Hey Linux community. So we have decided to do something nice for you and bring Steam to your OS. We want to do this properly so we are starting with a closed beta on 1 distro and after that we will expand. Don't worry we know there is more than one distro so we'll open up more later on when we have most of the bugs squashed and feel we can provide a good experience."
Our response: "Let's take this gesture of good faith and act like animals. Let's ignore Valve's goals/plans and find workarounds and hacks."
I really don't think its appropriate that we don't return their gesture of good faith with patience and respect. We should act more mature else the stigma of being a "community of freeloaders" will stay. To be fair though, the fact that Valve hasn't said anything about this appears to be tacit approval of our actions.
One can sort of get around the beta test - I could not, no access to games - probably due to my having a laptop with Intel non-fun graphics but yesterday I got notification i was on the mailing list and now i can download serious sam and the TFT's. I received no beta keys. Not that I can play these on this box mind you but my windows games, etc are listed in there now as well, even if unplayable atm - all the Half life games basically.
O what the heck ,,,,,,,installing anyway to see .......LOL
VINNY
O well it wouldn't start up despite installing and updating it's self ok ,,,,, kept getting a "Fatal Error: Failed to load steamui.so" well I found some posts about installing the ia32lib's but that wants to remove a lot of my goodies so I think I will put a i386-Ubuntu on one of the testing partitions and try it on that
O well it wouldn't start up despite installing and updating it's self ok ,,,,, kept getting a "Fatal Error: Failed to load steamui.so" well I found some posts about installing the ia32lib's but that wants to remove a lot of my goodies so I think I will put a i386-Ubuntu on one of the testing partitions and try it on that
VINNY
Still one of my peeves with Ubuntu, multi-arch is really really bad!
I really want to sign up but because I use Bumblebee for Optimus support I would be a poor candidate and would need to lie to get on the survey. Optirun is really bad with steam unlike most games. Hopefully somebody will figure it out soon enough.
A couple weeks ago I decided to try out Optimus on my T520. It worked, but fiddling around with optirun was a pain. And multi-monitor support is weak.
So then I decided to try, yet again, to get the nVidia binary drivers working with the laptop's firmware in discrete mode. And, to my delightful surprise, it now works! I can drive multiple digital monitors at my office and not worry about crashing X just by dragging a window around -- a regular feature of Nouveau.
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