Steam on Slackware

kingbeowulf · 12-21-2012, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Beelzebud

Anyone else having any issues with TF2 and an AMD graphics card?

I've been gaming on various platforms for decades, and I gotta say, I never liked ATI cards. Sure, at various times they have the performance crown, but the drivers for both linux and Windows were always crap. ATI/AMD just does not put the effort into product support - esp. on Linux - and they drop older cards like a hot rock. Gaming has also been very bumpy on the OSS ati driver. Dump it and go with an Nvidia GTX 550/560 Ti or GTX 560/650 Ti as good bang for the buck (1). Heck, even my GT430 bitch slaps your HD5770 since it just plain works in Steam/TF2

As for you issue, a possible investigative route is to see what patches Ubuntu added to te ATI driver. They fiddle with so much its hard to keep track. That is, on Slackware, you might NOT be running the same driver. Did you look into ../testing/ for the ati and drm stuff? Also, slackware32 or slackware64? Did you double check compat32 files?

Edit:
(1) assuming its not a laptop with the mobility version.

NyteOwl · 12-21-2012, 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Beelzebud

I have an issue with TF2 and I've been trying to track down the cause of this with no luck on Valve's forum.

When I launch TF2 I get this error:

Code:

Could not find required OpenGL entry point 'glColorMaskIndexedEXT'! Either your video card is unsupported, or your OpenGL driver needs to be updated.

glColorMaskIndexedEXT is in GL_EXT_draw_buffers2 which according to your error list the system doesn't support. It isn't an AMD issue as people have gotten the same error on nVidia cards.

You might want toi have a read here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410...6056532198187/

Beelzebud · 12-21-2012, 05:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kingbeowulf

I've been gaming on various platforms for decades, and I gotta say, I never liked ATI cards. Sure, at various times they have the performance crown, but the drivers for both linux and Windows were always crap. ATI/AMD just does not put the effort into product support - esp. on Linux - and they drop older cards like a hot rock. Gaming has also been very bumpy on the OSS ati driver. Dump it and go with an Nvidia GTX 550/560 Ti or GTX 560/650 Ti as good bang for the buck (1). Heck, even my GT430 bitch slaps your HD5770 since it just plain works in Steam/TF2

As for you issue, a possible investigative route is to see what patches Ubuntu added to te ATI driver. They fiddle with so much its hard to keep track. That is, on Slackware, you might NOT be running the same driver. Did you look into ../testing/ for the ati and drm stuff? Also, slackware32 or slackware64? Did you double check compat32 files?

Edit:
(1) assuming its not a laptop with the mobility version.

Desktop machine, slackware64 with multilibs, no money to upgrade graphics atm. I didn't think about any possible Ubuntu patches. I'll have to check in to that.

Haven't had any issues with AMD drivers in windows at all with this card, but Linux is another story. I don't think they put the proper amount of time and testing in to their Linux stuff.

tallship · 12-21-2012, 07:36 PM

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Originally Posted by NyteOwl

Steam = Stupid terrible egregious antisocial malware

IMHO of course

Oh kewl!,

And YAS can mean Yet Another Steam

mlangdn · 12-22-2012, 06:50 AM

Upgraded Steam and downloading TF2. All seems well so far. I'm glad they opened up the beta to all. That seems to me to be an indication of the response from Linux Gamers.

Geremia · 12-22-2012, 07:03 PM

I encountered this steamui.so problem, too. I ran this

Code:

ldd ~/.steam/bin/steamui.so | grep "not found"

and discovered I have some missing libraries:

Code:

        libnss3.so => not found
        libnssutil3.so => not found
        libsmime3.so => not found
        libplc4.so => not found
        libnspr4.so => not found

These appear to be part of the OpenSSL library. I'll probably have to install the 32 bit SSL. I also updated my multilibs, too.

Alien Bob · 12-22-2012, 07:12 PM

Those are part of the seamonkey-solibs package (multilib version is what Steam needs) which you probably already have installed. My steamclient package has a modified /ysr/bin/steam startup script which adds "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/seamonkey" thereby making these "missing" libraries found by Steam.
Running ldd against that steam library will show those as "missing" until you run "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/seamonkey" in your terminal.

Eric

Geremia · 12-22-2012, 08:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Alien Bob

The pulseaudio connect error may be caused by the fact that you have not started the rc.pulseaudio which was installed along with the pulseaudio package.

I thought your page said to chmod -x that.

Geremia · 12-22-2012, 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Alien Bob

Those are part of the seamonkey-solibs package (multilib version is what Steam needs) which you probably already have installed.

Yes, I have that.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alien Bob

My steamclient package has a modified /ysr/bin/steam startup script which adds "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/seamonkey" thereby making these "missing" libraries found by Steam.

My LD_LIBRARY_PATH is:

Code:

"/usr/lib/":${HOME}/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/:/usr/lib/seamonkey

, so ldd now reports I don't have any missing libraries, but now I get the following errors and warning:

Code:

[1222/200033:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(239)] Failed to call method: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files

Code:

[1222/200033:WARNING:proxy_service.cc(646)] PAC support disabled because there is no system implementation

Code:

PulseAudio connect failed (used only for Mic Volume Control) with error: Access denied

And tons of these:

Code:

GLError: 1280

Thanks

Alien Bob · 12-23-2012, 05:05 AM

The "GLErrors" are the real errors which you have to solve, the other messages are probably harmless. I have them too, except the NetworManager message which I never saw. Are you running this as root?

Eric

TobiSGD · 12-23-2012, 06:24 AM

I had the NetworkManager errors also, the simple solution was to start NetworkManager.

digitalFX · 12-23-2012, 10:19 PM

To those of you getting the line 287 segfaults, make sure your video driver has 32 bit compatibility. I had to reinstall the nvidia driver with "COMPAT32="yes"".

Geremia · 12-23-2012, 11:44 PM

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Originally Posted by digitalFX

To those of you getting the line 287 segfaults, make sure your video driver has 32 bit compatibility. I had to reinstall the nvidia driver with "COMPAT32="yes"".

My driver is Intel i915, so I'm not sure if it has 32-bit compatibility nor do I know if there's a compat32 version… I'll check. Thanks

---------- Post added 12-23-12 at 10:45 PM ----------

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alien Bob

The "GLErrors" are the real errors which you have to solve, the other messages are probably harmless. I have them too, except the NetworManager message which I never saw. Are you running this as root?

I get the same GLErrors as root, too.

jtsn · 12-23-2012, 11:53 PM

Intel GPUs need Mesa 9.0, otherwise Steam will crash.

buradd · 12-26-2012, 01:40 AM

i see the package you built alienbob, thanks!