Steam on Fedora

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

I'm not a gamer but I thought I'd check out the Steam engine on F20.
This is on the RPMfusion nonfree repo and installed with no problems.
However when running it I get a popup error saying:

OpenGL GLX context is not using direct rendering, which may cause performance problems.

For more information visit
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9938-EYZB-7457.

A glance at the above URL reveals that the problem is probably due to
Steam being a 32-bit binary and I only have 64-bit libraries. I'm using
a GT630 video card with the NVidia proprietary driver (also from
RPMfusion).

Is this solvable without jumping through many hoops?

poc

[Paul Cartwright]

On 04/01/2014 12:27 AM, Robin Laing wrote:
>  My son plays steam games all the time on F19 64 bit.  Adding the 32
>  bit libs solved that issue.
>
>  What Steam games don't work?  I have not heard of any from my son.  
Fedora
20....  and they seem to be working now.. either it was an
update, or just rebooting.. Kairo and Bionic Badgers seem to be working!

-- 
Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587

[Robin Laing]

On 2014-03-26 11:03, Paul Cartwright wrote:
>  On 03/26/2014 09:17 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > For more information visit
> https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9938-EYZB-7457.
> >
> > A glance at the above URL reveals that the problem is probably due to
> > Steam being a 32-bit binary and I only have 64-bit libraries. I'm using
> > a GT630 video card with the NVidia proprietary driver (also from
> > RPMfusion).
> >
> > Is this solvable without jumping through many hoops?
> >
> > poc
>  I am running Fedora amd_64 and have steam installed. Shaw may be right,
>  it wasn't too hard to get steam installed, I'm sure it was the 32 but
>  libraries..
>
>  more of a problem is the steam games that don't work because of 64 bit
>  OS.. not solved as easily..
>  
My son plays steam games all the time on F19 64 bit.  Adding the 32 bit 
libs solved that issue.

What Steam games don't work?  I have not heard of any from my son.

[Suvayu Ali]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 04:01:34PM +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>  
>  > To answer your question, I bet you just need to install the 32bit version
>  > of the nvida libraries. On my system I have:
>  > 
>  > xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-331.49-1.fc20.i686
>  
>  I did that and it seems to have worked (at least in the sense of not
>  giving the error popup). 
I use steam but with intel/radeon drivers.  I only needed to install 32
libraries for things to work properly.  I have attached a list of 32-bit
libraries from my Intel system; note that some of these are for Skype.

Hope this helps,

-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.

[Paul Cartwright]

On 03/26/2014 09:17 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>  For more information visit
> https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9938-EYZB-7457.
>
>  A glance at the above URL reveals that the problem is probably due to
>  Steam being a 32-bit binary and I only have 64-bit libraries. I'm using
>  a GT630 video card with the NVidia proprietary driver (also from
>  RPMfusion).
>
>  Is this solvable without jumping through many hoops?
>
>  poc 
I am running Fedora amd_64 and have steam installed. Shaw may be right,
it wasn't too hard to get steam installed, I'm sure it was the 32 but
libraries..

more of a problem is the steam games that don't work because of 64 bit
OS.. not solved as easily..

-- 
Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2014-03-26 at 08:23 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
>  On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
>  <pocallaghan(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote:
>  
>  > I'm not a gamer but I thought I'd check out the Steam engine on F20.
>  > This is on the RPMfusion nonfree repo and installed with no problems.
>  > However when running it I get a popup error saying:
>  >
>  > OpenGL GLX context is not using direct rendering, which may cause
>  > performance problems.
>  >
>  > For more information visit
>  > https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9938-EYZB-7457.
>  >
>  > A glance at the above URL reveals that the problem is probably due to
>  > Steam being a 32-bit binary and I only have 64-bit libraries. I'm using
>  > a GT630 video card with the NVidia proprietary driver (also from
>  > RPMfusion).
>  >
>  > Is this solvable without jumping through many hoops?
>  
>  
>  This would be best asked on the RPM Fusion mailing list since both steam
>  and the binary Nvida drivers you installed came from there... 
Yes, I should have thought of that.

>  To answer your question, I bet you just need to install the 32bit
> version
>  of the nvida libraries. On my system I have:
>  
>  xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-331.49-1.fc20.i686 
I did that and it seems to have worked (at least in the sense of not
giving the error popup).

Thanks

poc

[Richard Shaw]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote:

>  I'm not a gamer but I thought I'd check out the Steam engine
> on F20.
>  This is on the RPMfusion nonfree repo and installed with no problems.
>  However when running it I get a popup error saying:
>
>  OpenGL GLX context is not using direct rendering, which may cause
>  performance problems.
>
>  For more information visit
>  https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9938-EYZB-7457.
>
>  A glance at the above URL reveals that the problem is probably due to
>  Steam being a 32-bit binary and I only have 64-bit libraries. I'm using
>  a GT630 video card with the NVidia proprietary driver (also from
>  RPMfusion).
>
>  Is this solvable without jumping through many hoops? 

This would be best asked on the RPM Fusion mailing list since both steam
and the binary Nvida drivers you installed came from there...

To answer your question, I bet you just need to install the 32bit version
of the nvida libraries. On my system I have:

xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-331.49-1.fc20.i686

installed.