Steam on crouton ubuntu on chromebook

[kchance]

Will Steam linux games work on an Acer C7 chromebook with Ubuntu 12.04 running under ChromeOS (crouton)? I have the Orange Box installed and running, but the screen is almost completely black. 1.1 MHz processor with 2 gb RAM, 320gb hard drive.
Will it help to add memory?
Thanks.

[Ashley]

1.1Mhz processor.
That would mean Ubuntu would take about 10 years to boot.

Please post your system info. (If you don't know how to do this, open the Steam client and open 'System Information' in the 'Help' drop down)

[Shark]

No, chromebooks have arm processors, which are not supported by Valve. You can't even install it.

[blackout24]

Originally posted by Wouter:

No, chromebooks have arm processors, which are not supported by Valve. You can't even install it.

Nope the Acer Chromebook has a crappy x86 Celeron with the slowest iGPU you can think of. It might just barely be able to run Super Tux Kart.

Chromebooks are like the name implies machines designed to run a browser and nothing more. So it's obvious that there won't be any real 3D performance.

[kchance]

ok, here is system info:

Processor Information:
Vendor: GenuineIntel
Speed: 1100 Mhz
2 logical processors
2 physical processors
HyperThreading: Unsupported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Unsupported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported

Network Information:
Network Speed:

Operating System Version:
Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS (32 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 3.4.0
X Server Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server Release: 11103000
X Window Manager: Xfwm4
Steam Runtime Version: steam-runtime-release-i386_2013-06-28

Video Card:
Driver: Tungsten Graphics, Inc Mesa DRI Intel(R) Sandybridge Mobile x86/MMX/SSE2

Driver Version: 3.0 Mesa 8.0.4
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
VendorID: 0x8086
DeviceID: 0x106
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
Primary Display Resolution: 1366 x 768
Desktop Resolution: 1366 x 768
Primary Display Size: 10.08" x 5.67" (11.54" diag)
25.6cm x 14.4cm (29.3cm diag)
Primary VRAM Not Detected

Sound card:
Audio device: Intel PantherPoint HDMI

Memory:
RAM: 1955 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
LANG: en_US.UTF-8
Microphone: Not set
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 300634 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 264220 Mb

Installed software:

Recent Failure Reports:

[SamCoupe]

perhaps worth trying to update your intel gfx driver:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

[kchance]

Thanks much! The updates make the video pretty good. But I don't have audio. Should I remove pulseaudio?

[kchance]

Audio and video now working great. Thanks. Got rid of pulseaudio and rebooted.

[Ashley]

Can you get your orangebox games working now? What DE are you using?
It'd be cool to have some framerates.

[kchance]

yes, it is working. I am using xfce. How do you find out what the feamerates are?

[Ashley]

Go to options, and under the keyboard tab click advanced, check "enable developer console," hit apply.
Then press ~, and in the box that comes up (should be labeled as Console) put cl_showfps 2, play for a little while and watch the framerate. Tell us what you think it averaged, how high it got, and the lowest.

[kchance]

Got it. low = 27 fps, high = 59, average = somewhere in 40's.
How does this sound? CPU gets really hot. Would adding RAM help? I now have 2 gb ram.

[Ashley]

More RAM couldn't help the CPU heating, that performance is really good considering your processor.

[Shark]

adding faster ram increases cpu heat, adding more does nothing if swap is not in use. Unless you don't have swap, then it's hard to tell if you need more ram I guess.

[Irtsylle]

I wanted to type up a quick tutorial for anyone wishing to get Steam to work on a Chromebook. I'm currently using an Acer C7. I installed Ubuntu through Crouton.

Step one: Install Ubuntu
Tutorial: http://lifehacker.com/how-to-install-linux-on-a-chromebook-and-unlock-its-ful-509039343

Step two: Install Steam
Tutorial: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3079875 OR install through the Ubuntu Software Center

Step three: Update gfx to avoid error in Steam

Originally posted by SamCoupe:

perhaps worth trying to update your intel gfx driver:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Have fun!

In my experience so far Day of Defeat: Source runs perfectly for me. It's probably not the best looking, nor the smoothest, but it works great for my game play. So, if you own a Chromebook and want to run and play through Steam, it's entirely possible, and rather easy.

[Andrew]

Originally posted by Irtsylle:

I wanted to type up a quick tutorial for anyone wishing to get Steam to work on a Chromebook. I'm currently using an Acer C7. I installed Ubuntu through Crouton.

Step one: Install Ubuntu
Tutorial: http://lifehacker.com/how-to-install-linux-on-a-chromebook-and-unlock-its-ful-509039343

Step two: Install Steam
Tutorial: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3079875 OR install through the Ubuntu Software Center

Step three: Update gfx to avoid error in Steam

Originally posted by SamCoupe:

perhaps worth trying to update your intel gfx driver:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Have fun!

In my experience so far Day of Defeat: Source runs perfectly for me. It's probably not the best looking, nor the smoothest, but it works great for my game play. So, if you own a Chromebook and want to run and play through Steam, it's entirely possible, and rather easy.

So, can you test working of Dota 2 for me?