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Steam Link hardware officially walks the plank, there's an app for that
28 Nov 2018 at 12:23 am UTC
Anyway: I've noticed that if I do not turn off the link by hand/steam controller and turn off my tv, which turns off my receiver and puts my tv receiver in standby, it does something on the CEC bus, which in turn causes my receiver to wake up and request stream, which in turn turns on the receiver and we have a night long noises...
The link will keep making noises on the cec bus, so it's unstoppable until I turn off the link first.
My tv-receiver has a lot of CEC settings and this was the best way to handle my girlfriend turning the tv on, and the tv saying that it can't receive anything (which it can't because it's a stupid ass tv that can't handle the 6k channels I have, it stops at 5k with an overflow and just bugs out.
But this is the right procedure: turn on the tv, let anything play it's things with channel switching. Takes about 30s. Then turn on the link, it will switch channels. When finished with the link, turn it off, and then turn off the tv.
28 Nov 2018 at 12:23 am UTC
Quoting: slaapliedjeSpeaking of the Link, here's some fun I have with my current TV.And you might f* that carefully crafted setup by connecting a PC to the hdmi port as some video cards have grounded that line, and it's a bus so it's dead.
I turn on the Link via Steam Controller button... it turns on the TV and brings up the correct HDMI input... but then decides to turn on the PS4 Pro that's connected to it. Which I then have to turn off via it's controller and switch back to the Link's HDMI input because the PS4 made it switch....
Also if I turn off the PS4 Pro, it doesnt' turn off the TV, so when I push the power button on the remote to turn that off... about a minute later the PS4 pro turns back on.
Stupid CEC.
Anyway: I've noticed that if I do not turn off the link by hand/steam controller and turn off my tv, which turns off my receiver and puts my tv receiver in standby, it does something on the CEC bus, which in turn causes my receiver to wake up and request stream, which in turn turns on the receiver and we have a night long noises...
The link will keep making noises on the cec bus, so it's unstoppable until I turn off the link first.
My tv-receiver has a lot of CEC settings and this was the best way to handle my girlfriend turning the tv on, and the tv saying that it can't receive anything (which it can't because it's a stupid ass tv that can't handle the 6k channels I have, it stops at 5k with an overflow and just bugs out.
But this is the right procedure: turn on the tv, let anything play it's things with channel switching. Takes about 30s. Then turn on the link, it will switch channels. When finished with the link, turn it off, and then turn off the tv.
Steam Link hardware officially walks the plank, there's an app for that
23 Nov 2018 at 11:07 pm UTC
23 Nov 2018 at 11:07 pm UTC
Meeh...
the steam link just works.
The steam link app works, until it turns off the steam controller.
It still works after that, just without any input. And reconnecting the controller after that is hell.
Oh, I forgot: the steam link app cannot start the stream. That's already a problem in itself.
the steam link just works.
The steam link app works, until it turns off the steam controller.
It still works after that, just without any input. And reconnecting the controller after that is hell.
Oh, I forgot: the steam link app cannot start the stream. That's already a problem in itself.
Meltys Quest, a completely uncensored 2D RPG full of sex is now available on Linux
6 Nov 2018 at 6:44 pm UTC
6 Nov 2018 at 6:44 pm UTC
Ok, this has me wondering about another thing: I want to limit certain games for viewing by others on my game list...
There will always be people that judge you for certain games you own...
There will always be people that judge you for certain games you own...
The Steam Hardware Survey for October 2018 shows a small drop for Linux, a look at daily and monthly active users
6 Nov 2018 at 4:49 pm UTC
6 Nov 2018 at 4:49 pm UTC
To be clear guys, after so many years of running steam, I finally got my first hardware survey. And the results were wrong... :-(
The Steam for Linux limited beta was six years ago tomorrow, where's the cake?
6 Nov 2018 at 4:45 pm UTC Likes: 1
6 Nov 2018 at 4:45 pm UTC Likes: 1
I can remember when I first ordered Quake: the offering and the quake2: colossus (TM) from macmillan in a time that credit cards were very very uncommon here. I think that was 1999? (It was also the time that I got real internet instead of a dial up connection.) It probably set me back 300 euro (calculated to inflation).
Of course I already played doom using a osbox remote displayed on a dec visualimage 2000 color X terminal (That's a physical thing for the young uns: a complete system just dedicated to let you log in into servers providing you with an X11 session over 10base5).
Of course I already played doom using a osbox remote displayed on a dec visualimage 2000 color X terminal (That's a physical thing for the young uns: a complete system just dedicated to let you log in into servers providing you with an X11 session over 10base5).
System76 shared some more details to clear up some questions about their open hardware manufacturing
1 Nov 2018 at 4:36 pm UTC
1 Nov 2018 at 4:36 pm UTC
From the blog:
Especially since companies like Supermicro has shut down the root access to their motherboard controllers, thanks to some people calling root access insecure.
It's now very insecure (like any motherboard controller that has closed down root shell support) because it is now impossible to restrict access with ssh key only and firewall anything.
To that end, we designed Thelio Io, a daughter board that manages thermal and chassis control while also providing a storage backplane for the drives in Thelio.Now that is good news.
Especially since companies like Supermicro has shut down the root access to their motherboard controllers, thanks to some people calling root access insecure.
It's now very insecure (like any motherboard controller that has closed down root shell support) because it is now impossible to restrict access with ssh key only and firewall anything.
System76 shared some more details to clear up some questions about their open hardware manufacturing
1 Nov 2018 at 4:28 pm UTC
Of course open exists: 386 line, I think that's about the last one.
So if anybody says a broadcom, qualcomm or samsung is not open, then let him list the ones that are open.
I think the softcores in fpga comes to mind :-).
In any other case it is a slider with multiple entries. On exynos certain things are not available without the right signatures (actually only HDCP comes to mind). On old arm architectures, the java bytecode engine required a signature to enable (it's now obsolete, and nobody used it anyway).
But the intel architecture these days have secondary or actually primary controllers running software that you can't control or have insight into. That's such a big difference between not being able to HDCP your HDMI vs not knowing what your CPU does. Not being able to use HDCP is in the order of buying a cheaper CPU which have a few cores fused to disabled.
1 Nov 2018 at 4:28 pm UTC
Quoting: GuestAn engineer from Raptor Computing Systems (POWER9 desktops) recently laid out the details of what it means to have a fully open platform.Indeed, it is impossible to say open when talking about intel architecture.
Of course open exists: 386 line, I think that's about the last one.
So if anybody says a broadcom, qualcomm or samsung is not open, then let him list the ones that are open.
I think the softcores in fpga comes to mind :-).
In any other case it is a slider with multiple entries. On exynos certain things are not available without the right signatures (actually only HDCP comes to mind). On old arm architectures, the java bytecode engine required a signature to enable (it's now obsolete, and nobody used it anyway).
But the intel architecture these days have secondary or actually primary controllers running software that you can't control or have insight into. That's such a big difference between not being able to HDCP your HDMI vs not knowing what your CPU does. Not being able to use HDCP is in the order of buying a cheaper CPU which have a few cores fused to disabled.
Planet Nomads updated with optimisations and some needed fixes to the Linux version
1 Nov 2018 at 12:34 pm UTC
It is annoying, yes, very much.
But at the same level as I've seen in Subnautica.
I guess they use the same engines :-).
I actually love what people create with PN.
The steamworks is a great addition to the game.
Instead of just watching videos, you can now create monstrosities of vehicles yourself by using someone else's blueprint. And it really is integral part of the game: you scan in your design, and game select it for publishing.
1 Nov 2018 at 12:34 pm UTC
Quoting: TheRiddickGame has a intense fog of war happening, is a bit annoying really.You mean Level of Detail, popup of items.
It is annoying, yes, very much.
But at the same level as I've seen in Subnautica.
I guess they use the same engines :-).
I actually love what people create with PN.
The steamworks is a great addition to the game.
Instead of just watching videos, you can now create monstrosities of vehicles yourself by using someone else's blueprint. And it really is integral part of the game: you scan in your design, and game select it for publishing.
Valve have pushed out another Steam Play update with the 3.16-4 beta including corefonts support
1 Nov 2018 at 12:30 pm UTC Likes: 1
And there are more games that use nvidia dll's, that needed to be winestubbed to make them work.
I think GTA III, IV, SA and IV EFLC needed stubbing on an nvidia, as they worked almost directly on non nvidia.
1 Nov 2018 at 12:30 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: GuestGTA V for example.Quoting: stankalovichBenchmarking Nvidia and AMD cards in Proton should now be a more true level playing field.I doubt it's gonna change anything. I also never had this issue that is supposed to be being fixed.
I've never even seen examples of it, so I'm not sure why they'd be doing it; what games is it supposed to fix?
And there are more games that use nvidia dll's, that needed to be winestubbed to make them work.
I think GTA III, IV, SA and IV EFLC needed stubbing on an nvidia, as they worked almost directly on non nvidia.
Valve have pushed out another Steam Play update with the 3.16-4 beta including corefonts support
1 Nov 2018 at 12:20 pm UTC
And an nvidia gtx 1060? How would that work?
@logge: I really want to know, because I have an 920 too. Still with 6GB, but the CPU seems faster than the i5 in my steam machine (with unfortunately an Nvidia card).
I wonder if an R9-270 would be able to run new drivers.
1 Nov 2018 at 12:20 pm UTC
Quoting: ScooptaHe has a core i7-920, that's 2009 calling.Quoting: loggeHaha, now Nvidia gets their parts of being closed-source only! What a day!I'm not sure what exactly you were trying to say but it sounds sort of like a dig on Nvidia yet you have an nvidia card?
And an nvidia gtx 1060? How would that work?
@logge: I really want to know, because I have an 920 too. Still with 6GB, but the CPU seems faster than the i5 in my steam machine (with unfortunately an Nvidia card).
I wonder if an R9-270 would be able to run new drivers.