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[Feature request] Have hardware survey collect (or show) linux specific information

steamopen Feature Requestreviewed
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#4106 · opened 2015-11-02 by BryanQuigley · updated 2025-12-11 · 8 comments · github
BBryanQuigley 2015-11-02 github

From the system information tab, the following would be useful:
Kernel Version (including 32 or 64 bit)
X Window Manager (compiz, etc)
OpenGL/Driver Version

Other things worth collecting:
File system

Ggdrewb-valve maintainer 2015-11-02 github

The system information already has most of that, although it doesn't have the filesystem.

BBryanQuigley 2015-11-02 github

Oh, and I wanted it displayed in public survey results. Sorry for not being clearer.

Ggdrewb-valve maintainer 2015-11-02 github

Thanks for the clarification.

TTele42 2015-11-02 github

It will also be useful to start reporting GL core/compat seperately going forward.

BBryanQuigley 2016-08-02 github

Also Vulkan information would be nice.

Nnmarie276 2020-04-04 github

Hello.

When I started the steam client on my Ubuntu 18.04 installation, the survey popup appeared, but didn't contain any relevent information. I've a well known laptop (a Dell Latitude E6430) and the steam survey detects "no laptop model detected, no touchpad input,etc". I tried to restart the steam client using "strace" to check what library or software is missing for the detection, but it seems that the client ID traces the "last report date" on your servers.
How can I help you to be more accurate within the survey?

  • Can I force the survey check? If yes, how to do that?
  • Is it possible that a library or binary or package is missing? In this case, since I used the deb package, a dependency is missing?

I will try to "strace" the Steam client then upload it.

Nnmarie276 2020-04-15 github

Hello.
Finally, I seen that the "wrong hardware detection" is also visible from the "Help > System information" menu. Here's what I see:
steam-summary
I also seen the "Steam Linux Runtime container tool" is not present, but I understood this is not mandatory:
steam-runtime
I collected about 430Mb of strace. I don't know how to upload that.
Regards.

MManagor 2025-12-10 github

I too want Linux specific information shown on the "Linux only" dropdown in the public aggregated data. Would be nice to have

  • Kernel version
  • Display server (X11 or Wayland)
  • Mesa driver version
  • Sound server (Pipewire, pulseaudio, other)
  • Desktop environment

Also these are on the wishlist but not that high priority:

  • Init system
  • Filesystem the games are stored in

Nothing extracted yet.