Steam for linux beta

[james147]

but from the wording of your post it would seem you have

I have but it is not overly different from the workaround, still have no tray icon...

Only difference I can see is that I can start it normally and post bug reports on their forums (don't know why they use a forum as a bug tracker.... there are so many better ways of doing that out there)

[dequire]

Got my invite yesterday! Will install tonight and hit the forums.

[dequire]

Ok so far the Steam client appears to run just fine, however I have not gotten any games to work yet (Tried TF2 and a demo for iBomber Attack). Anyone else have any luck?

[james147]

Ok so far the Steam client appears to run just fine, however I have not gotten any games to work yet (Tried TF2 and a demo for iBomber Attack). Anyone else have any luck?

If they dont start I suggest running steam from a terminal, try to start the game and see what output you get... it is most likely you are missing a library needed to run the game and this should tell you which one. Once you know which one is missing head to your package manager and search for it. If you are on 64bit then install the 32bit version as steam is a 32bit application.

I think this will get better as the beta progresses.

If this fails tell Valve about it thats what the beta is for.

[vinnywright]

world of goo demo plays nicely @hear ........still didn't get an invite though I have not tryed any other games yet ,,,,, cant seem to find the linux friendly demos, might go look for that ibomber you just mentioned in a few .

VINNY

[james147]

You can get a current list of supported games here. They may or may not have demos though but quite a few where in humble indie bundles, so if you have bought any in the past you should be able to obtain the steam keys and activate them (this is what I did)


edit: you can also now search for Linux games in the store.

[dequire]

Here is the output from konsole when selecting TF2:

GlobalMemoryStatus: 4294967295
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/ronnoc/.steam/bin32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/ronnoc/.steam/bin32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
IDirect3DDevice9::Create: BackBufWidth: 1920, BackBufHeight: 1080, D3DFMT: 3, BackBufCount: 1, MultisampleType: 0, MultisampleQuality: 0
[1211/213701:ERROR:resource_bundle.cc(411)] Failed to load /home/ronnoc/Steam/SteamApps/ronnoc_nave/Team Fortress 2 Beta/cef_gtk.pak
Some features may not be available.
[1211/213701:WARNINGroxy_service.cc(646)] PAC support disabled because there is no system implementation
/home/ronnoc/Steam/SteamApps/ronnoc_nave/Team Fortress 2 Beta/hl2.sh: line 72: 6853 Segmentation fault (core dumped) ${GAME_DEBUGGER} "${GAMEROOT}"/${GAMEEXE} "$@"
Game removed: AppID 520 "Team Fortress 2 Beta", ProcID 6853
CCrossProcessPipe::BWrite wrote too few bytes: 32 (Broken pipe). Continuing.
saving roaming config store to 'sharedconfig.vdf'
roaming config store 2 saved successfully

I will try re-installing, unless I missed something glancing through the output. Also, attempting to launch iBomber Attack simply gives the following error (with no terminal feedback): Failed to start game (invalid app config)

[james147]

I will try re-installing, unless I missed something glancing through the output. Also, attempting to launch iBomber Attack simply gives the following error (with no terminal feedback): Failed to start game (invalid app config)

I would suggest verifying the game cache, then deleting config files that the games might have created.

Remember to report the issue to Valve (though I still cannot get over how most games (and valve) use forums to report bugs ).

[james147]

Remember to report the issue to Valve (though I still cannot get over how most games (and valve) use forums to report bugs ).

Looks like they have finally decided on a more sane route and you can now report issues with Steam for Linux at github :S

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux

[vinnywright]

Also, attempting to launch iBomber Attack simply gives the following error (with no terminal feedback): Failed to start game (invalid app config)

if this is the demo check your ~/Steam/SteamApps/common/iBomber Attack Demo/ @hear only the directory gets downloaded with nothing in it ??

VINNY

[jpenguin]

All I have rally tried is Cogs, and it works great. GTX 650Ti