If there is no UEFI entry, you may need to enable UEFI support in your BIOS setup.

Make sure you select the UEFI entry, it may look something like 'UEFI: Patriot Memory PMAP'.

(usually something like F8, F11, or F12 will bring up the BIOS boot menu). Boot your machine and tell the BIOS to boot off the stick.

Put the USB stick in your target machine.

Unzip the SteamOS.zip file to a blank, FAT32-formatted USB stick.

In order to do this, you will need PAM and a PAM enabled login.WARNING: Both installation methods will erase all content on the target computer Automated Installation Instead, user limits should be increased. This can be worked around by disabling esync but many games will perform measurably worse without it. Steam - Error: OpenGL GLX extension not supported by displayĪdd the Mesa gallium driver and reboot your system.ĭue to a low amount of allowed open file descriptors, Proton games may crash shortly after launching. There is an issue for this on the Flathub repository.

# setcap CAP_SYS_NICE+ep ~/.var/app//data/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamVR/bin/linu圆4/vrcompositor-launcher Steam tries to fix this itself by setting the right capabilities on the SteamVR binary, but this doesn't work in the Flatpak. Out of the box SteamVR might not be able to launch and give you various errors. This can be fixed by installing an udev rule from the official Steam package, but the udev rules are also available as an Alpine package. Troubleshooting My controllers aren't detectedīy default Steam doesn't have permission to read your controllers. $ flatpak install Īfter installation Steam can be started using it's.

$ flatpak remote-add -if-not-exists flathub Make sure you have the Flathub repository installed. To work around this problem, we'll use Flatpak. Steam requires glibc to run, and thus doesn't straight up run on Alpine Linux. Thus, do not turn to Valve for support for issues with Steam on Alpine Linux. Note: Steam for Linux only supports Ubuntu LTS.

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