I am having little success starting most games when running Steam in accelerated Unity, and BigPicture does not even start there. I thought initially that it was a MultiArch issue, but I think it has more to do with compositing and the interference there.
On the other hand, in e17 with OpenGL accelerated compositing turned off, Steam is looking great. Big Picture is looking great there as well. Most of my games run there, whereas I have only been able to run Amnesia TDD in Unity.
I thought I might post what I found so others could enjoy steam in linux a little more than I was when I initially installed it, but also give some details in a bug-report form. There's no Wiki that I can see to post to.
(See sysinfo report below for my exact specs)
From the stock install of Ubuntu 12.10 x86_64, I added the following packages (in that order):
build-essential
linux-headers-3.5.0-21-generic (whatever your current version is)
ia32-libs
AMD Beta 11 graphics driver from the AMD site
steam_latest.deb
I have the following games in my Library that are available in Linux.
(U : working in Unity,
E : working in another WM like e17 without accel compositing, but not Unity,
X: Not yet working for me)
U: Amnesia: The Dark Descent
E: The Book of Unwritten Tales
E: The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles
E: Cogs
X: Psychonaughts
X: Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP
E: Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers
X: VVVVVVV
E: World of Goo
I got BigPicture working great when I was not using Unity.
Overall I'm really happy with the beta now that I realized I could get more things running outside of Unity.
SYSTEM INFORMATION
Running Ubuntu Linux, the Ubuntu 12.10 (quantal) release.
GNOME: 3.6.0 (Ubuntu 2012-10-04)
Kernel version: 3.5.0-21-generic (#32-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 11 18:51:59 UTC 2012)
GCC: 4.7 (x86_64-linux-gnu)
Xorg: 1.13.0 (27 November 2012 07:44:35AM)
Hostname: homey
Uptime: 0 days 1 h 16 min
CPU INFORMATION
AuthenticAMD, AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 640 Processor
Number of CPUs: 4
CPU clock currently at 1800.000 MHz with 512 KB cache
Numbering: family(16) model(5) stepping(3)
Bogomips: 6027.33
Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt hw_pstate npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save
MEMORY INFORMATION
Total memory: 3954 MB
Total swap: 3914 MB
STORAGE INFORMATION
SCSI device - scsi0
Vendor: HL-DT-ST
Model: DVDRAM GSA-4163B
SCSI device - scsi2
Vendor: ATA
Model: WDC WD5000AAKS-0
SCSI device - scsi3
Vendor: ATA
Model: TOSHIBA MK8034GS
HARDWARE INFORMATION
MOTHERBOARD
Host bridge
Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link Control
PCI bridge(s)
NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 PCI bridge (rev a1) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
ISA bridge
NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. M4N68T series motherboard
IDE interface
NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 SATA Controller (rev a2) (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. M4N68T series motherboard
GRAPHIC CARD
VGA controller
Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Barts XT [Radeon HD 6800 Series](prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Device 00d0
SOUND CARD
Multimedia controller
Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Barts HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6800 Series]
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Barts HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6800 Series]
I am having little success starting most games when running Steam in accelerated Unity, and BigPicture does not even start there. I thought initially that it was a MultiArch issue, but I think it has more to do with compositing and the interference there.
On the other hand, in e17 with OpenGL accelerated compositing turned off, Steam is looking great. Big Picture is looking great there as well. Most of my games run there, whereas I have only been able to run Amnesia TDD in Unity.
I thought I might post what I found so others could enjoy steam in linux a little more than I was when I initially installed it, but also give some details in a bug-report form. There's no Wiki that I can see to post to.
(See sysinfo report below for my exact specs)
From the stock install of Ubuntu 12.10 x86_64, I added the following packages (in that order):
I have the following games in my Library that are available in Linux.
(U : working in Unity,
E : working in another WM like e17 without accel compositing, but not Unity,
X: Not yet working for me)
U: Amnesia: The Dark Descent
E: The Book of Unwritten Tales
E: The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles
E: Cogs
X: Psychonaughts
X: Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP
E: Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers
X: VVVVVVV
E: World of Goo
I got BigPicture working great when I was not using Unity.
Overall I'm really happy with the beta now that I realized I could get more things running outside of Unity.
*** Sysinfo Report
System information report, generated by Sysinfo: 12/21/2012 8:14:42 PM
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gsysinfo
SYSTEM INFORMATION
Running Ubuntu Linux, the Ubuntu 12.10 (quantal) release.
GNOME: 3.6.0 (Ubuntu 2012-10-04)
Kernel version: 3.5.0-21-generic (#32-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 11 18:51:59 UTC 2012)
GCC: 4.7 (x86_64-linux-gnu)
Xorg: 1.13.0 (27 November 2012 07:44:35AM)
Hostname: homey
Uptime: 0 days 1 h 16 min
CPU INFORMATION
AuthenticAMD, AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 640 Processor
Number of CPUs: 4
CPU clock currently at 1800.000 MHz with 512 KB cache
Numbering: family(16) model(5) stepping(3)
Bogomips: 6027.33
Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt hw_pstate npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save
MEMORY INFORMATION
Total memory: 3954 MB
Total swap: 3914 MB
STORAGE INFORMATION
SCSI device - scsi0
Vendor: HL-DT-ST
Model: DVDRAM GSA-4163B
SCSI device - scsi2
Vendor: ATA
Model: WDC WD5000AAKS-0
SCSI device - scsi3
Vendor: ATA
Model: TOSHIBA MK8034GS
HARDWARE INFORMATION
MOTHERBOARD
Host bridge
Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link Control
PCI bridge(s)
NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 PCI bridge (rev a1) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
ISA bridge
NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. M4N68T series motherboard
IDE interface
NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 SATA Controller (rev a2) (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. M4N68T series motherboard
GRAPHIC CARD
VGA controller
Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Barts XT [Radeon HD 6800 Series](prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Device 00d0
SOUND CARD
Multimedia controller
Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Barts HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6800 Series]
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Barts HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6800 Series]