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Problems with Steam client

steamclosed NVIDIA driversDistro Family: Fedora
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#7145 · opened 2020-05-29 by GRawhideMart · updated 2023-01-20 · 6 comments · github
GGRawhideMart 2020-05-29 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): February 11th 2020
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Fedora 32
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: [Yes/No] No
  • Have you checked for system updates?: [Yes/No] Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

I installed nVidia drivers with a little kernel patch which I found explained on if-not-false-than-true.com; the drivers work, but Steam just won't work.
Here the traceback I get from the debugger

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Have Fedora 32 and nVidia propetary
  2. Enable Steam third-part repository
  3. Install Steam with dnf and try launch it
Kkisak-valve maintainer 2020-05-29 github

Hello @GRawhideMart, you've failed to actually say what the problem is that you've encountered, but I'm guessing from context that Steam is simply failing to start. The backtrace you've provided strongly points at a video driver issue, as there is nothing related to the Steam client in it. Does any 32 bit OpenGL application like glxinfo32 from ~https://fedora.pkgs.org/30/fedora-i386/glx-utils-8.4.0-3.20181118git1830dcb.fc30.i686.rpm.html work?~ https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/mesa-demos/8.4.0/6.20181118git1830dcb.fc32/i686/ (My guess is that it's a bad idea to install this package system-wide ~due to the release mismatch~, maybe just unpack it as a regular user.)

GGRawhideMart 2020-05-29 github

Hello, thank you for the answer!

you've failed to actually say what the problem is that you've encountered, but I'm guessing from context that Steam is simply failing to start.

Exactly, I'm sorry, you're right I didn't explicitly point out that the problem is that the client does not indeed start. What's even more strange is that a couple of days ago, before I made a fresh install of the OS, it worked.

Does any 32 bit OpenGL application like glxinfo32 from ~https://fedora.pkgs.org/30/fedora-i386/glx-utils-8.4.0-3.20181118git1830dcb.fc30.i686.rpm.html work?~ https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/mesa-demos/8.4.0/6.20181118git1830dcb.fc32/i686/ (My guess is that it's a bad idea to install this package system-wide ~due to the release mismatch~, maybe just unpack it as a regular user.)

I'm not being able to run glxinfo32, I'm not sure why, but glxinfo works. I don't think it's any help, but I leave you the output of that and of glxinfo | grep '32' here

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2020-05-29 github

Thanks, that tells us something is wrong with your video driver install and 32 bit userspace support. glxinfo works because its exercising the 64 bit opengl render path.

GGRawhideMart 2020-05-29 github

Thank you.
Keeping in mind that I followed step-by-step this guide, is there any packet you advice to install?
I have a GTX560, so I downloaded the patched version of 390.132

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2022-12-09 github

Hello @GRawhideMart, did you manage to figure out what was going on here? Unfortunately, there's not much more I can suggest with regards to legacy NVIDIA drivers on Fedora.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2023-01-20 github

Closing as a system config issue.

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