Failed to connect to headset display

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My primary issue is that there seems to be some disconnect between the headset display and linux mint 21.3, whenever I try to run steam VR everything seems to work I have a solid green shapes for my headset and lighthouses, my headset is powered, and I know that the hardware isn't faulty as running it in my windows partition works fine. The only problem is the lights on the headset stay blue, the headset never displays anything, and error message "Failed to connect to headset display" comes up, when I press restart SteamVR, it shuts down and nothing happens, then when I try to start steamVR again im'm right back to square one.

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It says it is specifically error 496

[Sabasti]

AMD?

You might just want to attach a system report from the SteamVR

[Sabasti]

Check out: https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/2270319347584046395/ it seems quite a quick thing to test.

[Arctic Tortoiseshell]

Hi! I was experiencing this issue for a long time myself. The link provided above was no help. What I seem to have done to fix it was uninstalling the .deb install of Steam provided by Steam's website and instead installing the Steam launcher from Linux Mint's software manager. Specifically since - at the time of writing - there are two listings for Steam there, I used the one named "steam:i386" which also was the only one of the two that actually would install.

My setup is Mint 22.1, kernel 6.11.0-17 generic, Cinnamon 6.4.8.

[oem@oem@oem]

run this command in Linux terminal

~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamVR/bin/vrmonitor.sh %command%

[☆eizel☆]

Originally posted by oem@oem@oem:

run this command in Linux terminal

~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamVR/bin/vrmonitor.sh %command%

It gives me this;

 bash: /home/eizelqwq/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamVR/bin/vrmonitor.sh: No such file or directory 

[SiEgE]

Originally posted by eizelqwq:

It gives me this;

 bash: /home/eizelqwq/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamVR/bin/vrmonitor.sh: No such file or directory 

What about this path?
~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/SteamVR/bin/vrmonitor.sh

Also try adding bash before it, like this:
bash ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/SteamVR/bin/vrmonitor.sh
I think my Ubuntu I've used previously used to complain about sh files missing, when in fact it just failed to recognize it as an executable file. So either apply "chmod +x" to it, or execute it with bash/sh

And make sure you have this path existing in your home dir.

[☆eizel☆]

Originally posted by SiEgE:

Originally posted by eizelqwq:

It gives me this;

 bash: /home/eizelqwq/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamVR/bin/vrmonitor.sh: No such file or directory 

What about this path?
~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/SteamVR/bin/vrmonitor.sh

Also try adding bash before it, like this:
bash ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/SteamVR/bin/vrmonitor.sh
I think my Ubuntu I've used previously used to complain about sh files missing, when in fact it just failed to recognize it as an executable file. So either apply "chmod +x" to it, or execute it with bash/sh

And make sure you have this path existing in your home dir.

It gave me a bunch of logs in terminal, booted SteamVR, told me I had to set Steam to my default OpenXR runtime or something, rebooted SteamVR, gave me a red light on my headset, the error popped up again, I replugged in my headset and now it's back on a blue light.

[☆eizel☆]

At the end of the terminal the 2 errors I can see are these;

 [0410/221653.824803:ERROR:check.cc(376)] Check failed: false. NOTREACHED log messages are omitted in offical builds. Sorry!
libpng warning; iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile