steamos - black screen

[Te3-BloodyIron]

just installed steamos on a buddy's system, running an r9 290 and we're getting a black screen right away for ns2. It doesn't seem to finish launching ever. We've tried STEAM in big picture mode and desktop mode, no luck either way.

Any idea?

[jethai]

steamos is mostly for nvidia cards

[Te3-BloodyIron]

But how will I mine for coins in my downtime? D:

I'm also kind of skeptical about that statement.

[Prydzen ᛋᛟ]

catalyst?

[Ixhorb]

try run NS2 as Admin and/or re-validate your NS2 data via steam... and/or if u ve Adobe Creative Cloud installed, disable it.

[Prydzen ᛋᛟ]

there is no such thing as "admin" on linux, only wheel and root,

[Te3-BloodyIron]

lol run as admin... and then you go on about adobe creative cloud, hahah like that would run in linux.

I think you misread some things there buddy, thanks for pitching in though :)

[Te3-BloodyIron]

Recent steamos update and no fix for this :(

[Ghoul]

Afaik this is a amd driver bug which is well known by amd and there was also a solution presented at the steam dev congress. But still you have to wait for amd to fix this ... . UWE themself are trying to find a workaround meanwhile.

[Te3-BloodyIron]

Ahh good some info on this, thanks!

[Doogie Hoser MD]

Anyone have more info on this bug? Is being tracked somewhere?

[THE PING]

Sadly, no resolve yet with current alchemist beta. I've been trying all day. Its an fglrx driver issue but I dont know what exactly is breaking.

[SalameMaster]

I have SteamOS with a Radeon hd 7770. All my Linux games run well, plus Star trek under Wine. Im playing Star Conflict right now. But NS never worked... it is just a waste... uninstalling NS in 3, 2, 1...

[Prydzen ᛋᛟ]

What do you mean all your linux games? Games that dont even use opengl 2+(shaders)?

[Te3-BloodyIron]

He is vague, but I am goinig to _assume_ he means games that list having native Linux support. Since NS2 is native Linux and this black screen issue is still present, his point is a sharp juxt position to the original intent of this thread, which is appropriate since it outlines how my experience does not inherently match his; with sexy results.

[Prydzen ᛋᛟ]

Originally posted by Te3-BloodyIron:

He is vague, but I am goinig to _assume_ he means games that list having native Linux support. Since NS2 is native Linux and this black screen issue is still present, his point is a sharp juxt position to the original intent of this thread, which is appropriate since it outlines how my experience does not inherently match his; with sexy results.

There are a lot of "native" linux games that doesnt mean they use shaders. i think very little of them do.