Steam on Slackware

NyteOwl · 11-11-2012, 02:36 PM

Their website doesn't work right most of the time in Windows either. I think they expect everyone to be running a Cray, with a full render farm for graphics and OC-192 connections and Windows Home Premium

Alien Bob · 11-11-2012, 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by irgunII

Well crud! I can't even get the page where one joins to load correctly (https://store.steampowered.com/join/). None of the javascript things work like the pulldown menu for 'secret question' or the 'refresh' of the weird letter/numbers thing. I've tried it with seamonkey, firefox and opera.

I've got jre-7u9-i586-1 installed on my slackware 14 system (32 bit).

The java *seems* to work on other websites, but is there someplace I can check to make sure?

Slackware64 14.0 multilib here, using Firefox as my webbrowser of choice, and I never had any of the issues you are describing. Only difference (but that should not make any difference for the Steam website) is that I am using OpenJDK instead of the Oracle binaries you are using.

Eric

Tuxqi · 11-12-2012, 04:38 AM

Will installing these PulseAudio pacakages mess up my ALSA set up? I prefer and need to use ALSA for a few reasons.

tangle · 11-12-2012, 04:40 AM

It didn't mess up my alsa as far as I know.

Alien Bob · 11-12-2012, 05:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Tuxqi

Will installing these PulseAudio pacakages mess up my ALSA set up? I prefer and need to use ALSA for a few reasons.

No, the pulseaudio package will not be used by anything in Slackware. In the Steam client and Steam games you will probably have to configure the audio properties to use ALSA through pulseaudio but I have not yet tried getting sound to function.

Eric

ReaperX7 · 11-12-2012, 03:11 PM

It supports native ALSA. I think they just linked to the Pulse API because it was what was being used on Ubuntu as the primary audio manager. Microphone and VoIP chat work fine.

I'm anxious to see how many developers consider creating Linux games now.

tuxbg · 11-12-2012, 03:19 PM

Is there any solution for my problem.I post output from strace program on the third page and all my packages on the system
The output show that i'm miss a packages that i have already install
And the error is when i type steam
ILocalize::AddFile() failed to load file "public/steambootstrapper_english.txt".
X Error of failed request: BadName (named color or font does not exist)
Major opcode of failed request: 45 (X_OpenFont)
Serial number of failed request: 12
Current serial number in output stream: 13
i cannot start pulseaudio the error is
Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-open.c: 667: _dl_open: Assertion `_dl_debug_initialize (0, args.nsid)->r_state == RT_CONSISTENT' failed!
I hope you can understand my poor english

Alien Bob · 11-12-2012, 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by tuxbg

X Error of failed request: BadName (named color or font does not exist)
Major opcode of failed request: 45 (X_OpenFont)
Serial number of failed request: 12
Current serial number in output stream: 13

PErhaps you do miss a font or a complete font directory? Did you do a full Slackware installation?

Eric

tuxbg · 11-12-2012, 04:44 PM

No is not a full installation,i have all fonts installed on my system

ReaperX7 · 11-12-2012, 06:43 PM

Which packages did you omit from installation?

tuxbg · 11-13-2012, 05:30 AM

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Originally Posted by ReaperX7

Which packages did you omit from installation?

It is on attachment
Sorry for the delay we have a 8 hours difference in time zone

tangle · 11-13-2012, 08:54 AM

How long does the application process take?

tuxbg · 11-13-2012, 08:58 AM

After а error immediately crash

af7567 · 11-13-2012, 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by tuxbg

X Error of failed request: BadName (named color or font does not exist)
Major opcode of failed request: 45 (X_OpenFont)
Serial number of failed request: 12
Current serial number in output stream: 13

I had a problem similar to this on my laptop, but after I installed the latest ati proprietary drivers (from last month) steam started ok. I had an older version of those drivers installed before.

tuxbg · 11-13-2012, 09:44 AM

I use open source driver,i will try ati proprietary driver and i will report