So I recently switched over to Arch Linux from Fedora which I'd been using for a long time. I've gotten literally everything up and running without a hitch, something that didn't happen last time I tried Arch and I'm really liking the OS now. I think I just know my Linux a lot more now than the last time I made that switch.
Anyway the problem I'm having is simple: Steam runs fine on my Arch machine (Which I'm using as the client) but In Home Streaming doesn't. My Linux Steam Client doesn't seem to be able to find my Windows box on the LAN (and vice versa). I've checked firewall rules and I've also disabled my VPN on Server and Client sides and noting. The last thing I can think is to try running proprietary drivers on my Arch box but I can play games fine using the open source drivers so I don't really think that's it.
Anyone have ideas and/or experienced this before and know how to get it working?
Seriously loving Arch and don't want to ditch it because of this one little issue :/
Graphics drivers shouldn't have anything to do with it because its not a graphics issue its a client issue. Valve are constantly pushing out fixes and features to all the new home steaming, controller, big picture stuff on there beta channel. You should see if that works.
It's somewhat dumb, but it's required. I have a Steam Controller and I use Manjaro (Which is based on Arch) you get updates daily for In-Home Streaming fixes and Controller updates weekly.
I am made a post about my issue a few days ago, and no one seemed to have an answer. So I started testing some things.
With the 358 drivers, big picture mode does not work, backing up games does not work. Games for some reason work, but a lot of tools and features causes the steam to crash.
Every other nvidia driver I have tried over the past few days, no issues.
Whats funny is that in my post, I said it should not be a driver issue. But through process of elimination it is in fact the driver.
Other people were having this issue on a few other forums which is why I decided to mention it.
Network Manager seems to be fine. Steam its self though is giving me breakpad exception handler errors. I'll try to install proprietary drivers I guess :/
No problems with big picture mode for me though
P.S. - compiling catalyst failed so I'll try again tomorrow, already 9:15PM my time and I have work in the morning :p
Well I decided screw it and just reinstalled Linux Mint which is what was on that machine before. I love Arch on my desktop and I like to run the same type of OS throughout my house but the machine in question is just a TV machine, I watch Netflix on it, stream games, and basically that's all (sometimes I play local games too but very few). I decided it wasn't worth more of my time :p
Side note though, I am using Arch on all my other systems, anyone know of a good VNC server. It can't be just any server, needs to let me take control of an already running session.
yeah I was thinking x11vnc would do the trick. I probably don't need to encrypt my data, I only use it on my LAN. I used to used Real VNC but the .tar.gz I got from them doesn't seem to work. The program runs but when I try to connect to it I get nothing even though I can ping the machine so I know that it can be seen on the network.
you liking missing some streaming libraries ESPECIALLY since your on arch you may not have installed them. See what the "recommends" packages are for steam and see if you missing any libraries