[gentoo-user] Steam and NFS, Fix for anyone also effected

2024-04-08 Thread Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor
So diskless clients and steam have had a bumpy road over the years, used to have to make a fakeflock.so to get around a locking bug. Then awhile after that, I believe when Proton reached version 8+ there was a horrible 30+ seconds of idle waiting time added to every game before it even

Re: [gentoo-user] Steam.

2023-06-01 Thread Matt Connell
On Thu, 2023-06-01 at 15:18 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > I haven't been able to run steam on my machine for about 2 weeks now. No > idea what the cause is, reported to Valve's Github page. Current symptom > is that window opens but driving thread stalls out or ??? and UI > freezes, needs to be

[gentoo-user] Steam.

2023-06-01 Thread Alan Grimes
I haven't been able to run steam on my machine for about 2 weeks now. No idea what the cause is, reported to Valve's Github page. Current symptom is that window opens but driving thread stalls out or ??? and UI freezes, needs to be closed from console. First symptoms appeared after a game

RE: [gentoo-user] Steam overlay

2021-12-07 Thread Laurence Perkins
Nope. Check dmesg. Check syslog. Try launching the game from a terminal. Even Steam games usually give *some* kind of hint. LMP -Original Message- From: Alan Grimes Sent: Monday, December 6, 2021 11:59 PM To: Gentoo User Subject: [gentoo-user] Steam overlay CAUTION

Re: [gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN

2018-07-29 Thread Davyd McColl
On July 29, 2018 19:43:06 Alan Grimes wrote: Daniel Salas Rodriguez wrote: On 07/29/2018 09:34 AM, Alan Grimes wrote: James Stevenson wrote: I've migrated all of my gaming over to GOG. I kept some of the x86_32 libraries from ~/.local/share/steam incase I need to add them to the library

Re: [gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN

2018-07-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 29 Jul 2018 19:04:41 +0100, Mick wrote: > > What in god's name are the linux ppl trying to build here?!?!?! > > > > It's certainly not a stable, usable, and reliable operating > > system... It's also not compulsory. > My systems are just so. > > But I don't run ~arch ... ;-) I

Re: [gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN

2018-07-29 Thread Mick
On Sunday, 29 July 2018 18:42:18 BST Alan Grimes wrote: > Daniel Salas Rodriguez wrote: > > On 07/29/2018 09:34 AM, Alan Grimes wrote: > >> James Stevenson wrote: > >>> I've migrated all of my gaming over to GOG. I kept some of the x86_32 > >>> libraries from ~/.local/share/steam incase I need to

Re: [gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN

2018-07-29 Thread Alan Grimes
Daniel Salas Rodriguez wrote: > On 07/29/2018 09:34 AM, Alan Grimes wrote: >> James Stevenson wrote: >>> I've migrated all of my gaming over to GOG. I kept some of the x86_32 >>> libraries from ~/.local/share/steam incase I need to add them to the >>> library path for launching some games but

Re: [gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN

2018-07-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 29 Jul 2018 12:34:10 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > And for the love of god, can someone PLEASE fix libcdio!! > ../../../libcdio-2.0.0/lib/driver/utf8.c:350:3: error: #error "The iconv > library is needed to build drivers, but it is not detected" >  # error "The iconv library is

Re: [gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN

2018-07-29 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 12:42 PM Daniel Salas Rodriguez wrote: > Seems your iconv library is broken or just not there. Have you tried > re-emerging it and then retrying? > > # emerge -v1 libiconv On Linux, iconv is built into glibc. libiconv is only necessary if you are using a different C

Re: [gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN

2018-07-29 Thread Daniel Salas Rodriguez
On 07/29/2018 09:34 AM, Alan Grimes wrote: > James Stevenson wrote: >> I've migrated all of my gaming over to GOG. I kept some of the x86_32 >> libraries from ~/.local/share/steam incase I need to add them to the >> library path for launching some games but otherwise I've removed steam >> from

Re: [gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN

2018-07-29 Thread Alan Grimes
James Stevenson wrote: > I've migrated all of my gaming over to GOG. I kept some of the x86_32 > libraries from ~/.local/share/steam incase I need to add them to the > library path for launching some games but otherwise I've removed steam > from my PC. I've also set my video drivers to 32b in my

Re: [gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN

2018-07-29 Thread James Stevenson
I've migrated all of my gaming over to GOG. I kept some of the x86_32 libraries from ~/.local/share/steam incase I need to add them to the library path for launching some games but otherwise I've removed steam from my PC. I've also set my video drivers to 32b in my package.use but that's my whole

Re: [gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN

2018-07-28 Thread R0b0t1
On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 8:33 PM, Alan Grimes wrote: > A picture is beginning to emerge, after the reboot.. > > > It did not give a usable error message so I had panicked and probably > cleaned more than I should have... 73% chance the underlying issue was a > graphics driver version bump that

[gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN

2018-07-28 Thread Alan Grimes
A picture is beginning to emerge, after the reboot.. It did not give a usable error message so I had panicked and probably cleaned more than I should have... 73% chance the underlying issue was a graphics driver version bump that SHOULD have been clearly reported, but wasn't, the remaining

Re: [gentoo-user] Steam now not working too...

2018-07-23 Thread Alan Grimes
Okay, very good suggestions, still broken, that bootstrap.tar.gz must be broken too. =\ atg@tortoise ~ $ steam --reset Installing bootstrap /home/atg/.local/share/Steam/bootstrap.tar.xz Reset complete! [### edit ###] atg@tortoise ~ $ steam which: no gnome-terminal in

Re: [gentoo-user] Steam now not working too...

2018-07-23 Thread Daniel Salas
Steam places the games in a directory called Library. It is in the settings (no idea where is the default on Linux). You can go there and either copy the whole folder out, or just rename it to ensure it will not delete it and once you have reinstalled, just move the directory back, or tell steam

Re: [gentoo-user] Steam now not working too...

2018-07-23 Thread Davyd McColl
Perhaps just back up ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps and reset steam, then close steam and copy back your steamapps? I've done this on Windows before, for similar reasons. Haven't needed to with steam on Linux - and it just updated about 1/2 an hour ago. -d On July 23, 2018 18:17:45 Alan

[gentoo-user] Steam now not working too...

2018-07-23 Thread Alan Grimes
KDE is still very very broken. Steam is almost 1/100th as bad as filezilla at pushing out stupid updates to their beta client, which is pretty awful, whereas filezilla is unbelievable... Anyway, their client now doesn't load: ## atg@tortoise ~ $ steam which: no gnome-terminal in

Re: [gentoo-user] Steam downloading extremely

2017-03-15 Thread Danny YUE
Thanks for your fast reply, and sorry for my late response. The original is described as: Steam starts with a fast download speed, and eventually goes down, even to 0 (which is probably caused by a bug in Steam Linux client). >From this link:

Re: [gentoo-user] Steam downloading extremely

2017-03-15 Thread Nils Freydank
Hi guy, Am Mittwoch, 15. März 2017, 14:24:10 CET schrieb Danny YUE: > Hi guys, > > I just got Steam installed and running successfully on my machine, > and tried to get CS:GO running smoothly, which made me really happy :-D nice to hear, have fun with that! > However when Steam is downloading

[gentoo-user] Steam downloading extremely

2017-03-15 Thread Danny YUE
Hi guys, I just got Steam installed and running successfully on my machine, and tried to get CS:GO running smoothly, which made me really happy :-D However when Steam is downloading games, the speed is extremely slow, down to several KB/s, even some bytes/s. I have already installed dnsmasq and

Re: [gentoo-user] STEAM

2013-01-31 Thread Teodor Spæren
Den 31.01.2013 06:34, skrev Yohan Pereira: On 30/01/13 at 11:05pm, Teodor Spæren wrote: Totaly agree with you! Now if I could only get TF2 to work TF2 works perfectly fine here. The only problem I'm facing (apart from drop in productivity) is the cursor flip issue that Alexandre

Re: [gentoo-user] STEAM

2013-01-31 Thread Tuomo Hartikainen
On 130130 2305, Teodor Spæren wrote: Totaly agree with you! Now if I could only get TF2 to work I think setting the launch options -nojoy -w, no joystick and windowed mode, got me past the black screen. - Tuomo Hartikainen signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] STEAM

2013-01-31 Thread julian
read the wiki https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Steam#Mouse_cursor On 01/30/2013 11:02 PM, Alexandre Domi wrote: Speaking about that, does anyone else here have the cursor flip problem? I've seen some topics on several forums, but it seems that nobody figured out a way to fix it... Le 30 janv.

[gentoo-user] STEAM

2013-01-30 Thread jdm
Big thanks to the guys and girls who got the STEAM overlay up and running. Its awesome. PS Along with Gentoo of course. Getting darn all done in the way of work though! Steam on Linux. Alas I can see the end of my dual booting days. Regards John

Re: [gentoo-user] STEAM

2013-01-30 Thread Alexandre Domi
Speaking about that, does anyone else here have the cursor flip problem? I've seen some topics on several forums, but it seems that nobody figured out a way to fix it... Le 30 janv. 2013 22:29, jdm j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk a écrit : Big thanks to the guys and girls who got the STEAM overlay up and

Re: [gentoo-user] STEAM

2013-01-30 Thread Teodor Spæren
Den 30.01.2013 22:28, skrev jdm: Big thanks to the guys and girls who got the STEAM overlay up and running. Its awesome. PS Along with Gentoo of course. Getting darn all done in the way of work though! Steam on Linux. Alas I can see the end of my dual booting days. Regards John Totaly agree

Re: [gentoo-user] STEAM

2013-01-30 Thread Yohan Pereira
On 30/01/13 at 11:05pm, Teodor Spæren wrote: Totaly agree with you! Now if I could only get TF2 to work TF2 works perfectly fine here. The only problem I'm facing (apart from drop in productivity) is the cursor flip issue that Alexandre mentioned. -- - Yohan Pereira The difference