Thank you.
Again I apologise for posting in the Steamplay Proton Thread:
Here is a copy of the Original Post.
I will edit the original post to point to here:
Original Post:
I am moving from Windows to Linux.
I am not a Linux expert w.r.t Mesa video driver upgrade and installation.
I was interested to see what the “out of the box” experience would be Fedora.
I upgraded my Distro from Fedora 27 to 28, which is easy to do.
Fedora 28 is currently using this version of the
Mesa version installed is: [colesdav@Unknown-10-c3-7b-6c-27-d2 ~]$ glxinfo |
grep “OpenGL version”
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 18.0.5
[colesdav@Unknown-10-c3-7b-6c-27-d2 ~]$
I have completed the initial first pass look on Fedora 28 with those drivers.
I have created many video recordings, some of which are still processing. and made those available to try to get more interest so more people get involved/ are aware of Steam Play Beta.
Next step is to upgrade the Mesa Drivers.
RE: I know it can be a headache on Linux (especially on Fedora).
I agree.
I am finding upgrading the Mesa Drivers on Fedora 28 difficult.
I started to take a look at that today.
I followed the instructions here:
“Moving on - How to download and install latest Mesa GPU Drivers:
For latest Drivers: https://mesa3d.org/
For download information: https://mesa3d.org/download.html
For download location: https://mesa.freedesktop.org/archive/
For installation instructions: https://mesa3d.org/install.html”
I selected these:
“August 24, 2018
Mesa 18.1.7 is released. This is a bug-fix release.”
I followed points 1 & 2.
The download, untar/unzip, and make / compile ran o.k based on what I see in the log files.
On reboot I still see this:
[colesdav@Unknown-10-c3-7b-6c-27-d2 ~]$ glxinfo | grep “OpenGL version”
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 18.0.5
[colesdav@Unknown-10-c3-7b-6c-27-d2 ~]$
Is it possible someone on this forum could help out with advise and more details on what I need to do to get the latest Mesa Drivers running on Fedora 28 please?
Downloading games, testing, creating and editing videos and uploading those to Youtube keeps me busy enough. I would prefer to be doing that , and I am sure many others testing this would as well.
Since Steam Plays Beta is so important, is there no way that Steam could talk to Fedora and MESA driver people and provide an easier way to allow automatic upgrade to these new MESA drivers using dnf in Fedora 28?
Thanks.