mesa VS steam-runtime

No problems, AMD Adrenalin it's a part of Windows AMD drivers, but on Linux you have not this soft, here is link: https://github.com/Mesa3D/mesa

# apt install libxcb-glx0-dev libx11-xcb-dev libxcb-present-dev libxshmfence-dev libxxf86vm-dev # git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa # cd mesa meson setup build/ -Dgallium-drivers=lima,panfrost,kmsro,swrast -Dplatforms=x11 -Dvulkan-drivers= -Dllvm=disabled The Meson build system Version: 1.0.1 Source dir: /Dati/mesa Build dir: /Dati/mesa/build Build type: native build Project name: mesa Project version: 23.3.0-devel C compiler for the host machine: cc (gcc 12.2.0 "cc (Debian 12.2.0-14) 12.2.0") C linker for the host machine: cc ld.bfd 2.40 C++ compiler for the host machine: c++ (gcc 12.2.0 "c++ (Debian 12.2.0-14) 12.2.0") C++ linker for the host machine: c++ ld.bfd 2.40 Host machine cpu family: arm Host machine cpu: armv7l Checking if "-mtls-dialect=gnu2" runs: YES Dependency vdpau skipped: feature gallium-vdpau disabled Program glslangValidator found: NO Dependency libva skipped: feature gallium-va disabled Program python3 found: YES (/usr/bin/python3) Fetching value of define "ETIME" : 62 Checking for function "bswap32" : YES Checking for function "bswap64" : YES Checking for function "clz" : YES Checking for function "clzll" : YES Checking for function "ctz" : YES Checking for function "expect" : YES Checking for function "ffs" : YES Checking for function "ffsll" : YES Checking for function "popcount" : YES Checking for function "popcountll" : YES Checking for function "unreachable" : YES Checking for function "types_compatible_p" : YES Compiler for C supports function attribute const: YES Compiler for C supports function attribute flatten: YES Compiler for C supports function attribute malloc: YES Compiler for C supports function attribute pure: YES Compiler for C supports function attribute unused: YES Compiler for C supports function attribute warn_unused_result: YES Compiler for C supports function attribute weak: YES Compiler for C supports function attribute format: YES Compiler for C supports function attribute packed: YES Compiler for C supports function attribute returns_nonnull: YES Compiler for C supports function attribute alias: YES Compiler for C supports function attribute noreturn: YES Compiler for C supports function attribute visibility:hidden: YES Checking if "__uint128_t" compiles: NO Checking for function "reallocarray" : YES Checking for function "fmemopen" : YES Checking if "gc-sections" : links: YES Compiler for C supports arguments -Werror=implicit-function-declaration: YES Compiler for C supports arguments -Werror=missing-prototypes: YES Compiler for C supports arguments -Werror=return-type: YES Compiler for C supports arguments -Werror=empty-body: YES Compiler for C supports arguments -Werror=incompatible-pointer-types: YES Compiler for C supports arguments -Werror=int-conversion: YES Compiler for C supports arguments -Wimplicit-fallthrough: YES Compiler for C supports arguments -Wmisleading-indentation: YES Compiler for C supports arguments -Wno-missing-field-initializers: YES Compiler for C supports arguments -Wno-format-truncation: YES Compiler for C supports arguments -Wno-nonnull-compare: YES Compiler for C supports arguments -fno-math-errno: YES Compiler for C supports arguments -fno-trapping-math: YES Compiler for C supports arguments -Qunused-arguments: NO Compiler for C supports arguments -fno-common: YES Compiler for C supports arguments -Wno-microsoft-enum-value: NO Compiler for C supports arguments -Wno-unused-function: YES Compiler for C supports arguments -Werror=format: YES Compiler for C supports arguments -Wformat-security: YES Compiler for C supports arguments -Werror=thread-safety: NO Compiler for C supports arguments -ffunction-sections: YES Compiler for C supports arguments -fdata-sections: YES Compiler for C++ supports arguments -Werror=return-type: YES Compiler for C++ supports arguments -Werror=empty-body: YES Compiler for C++ supports arguments -Wmisleading-indentation: YES Compiler for C++ supports arguments -Wno-non-virtual-dtor: YES Compiler for C++ supports arguments -Wno-missing-field-initializers: YES Compiler for C++ supports arguments -Wno-format-truncation: YES Compiler for C++ supports arguments -fno-math-errno: YES Compiler for C++ supports arguments -fno-trapping-math: YES Compiler for C++ supports arguments -Qunused-arguments: NO Compiler for C++ supports arguments -flifetime-dse=1: YES Compiler for C++ supports arguments -Wno-microsoft-enum-value: NO Compiler for C++ supports arguments -Werror=format: YES Compiler for C++ supports arguments -Wformat-security: YES Compiler for C++ supports arguments -ffunction-sections: YES Compiler for C++ supports arguments -fdata-sections: YES Compiler for C supports arguments -Wno-override-init: YES Compiler for C supports arguments -Wno-initializer-overrides: NO Compiler for C supports arguments -Werror=pointer-arith: YES Compiler for C supports arguments -Werror=vla: YES Compiler for C supports arguments -Werror=gnu-empty-initializer: NO Compiler for C++ supports arguments -Werror=pointer-arith: YES Compiler for C++ supports arguments -Werror=vla: YES Compiler for C++ supports arguments -Werror=gnu-empty-initializer: NO Checking for function "__builtin_ia32_clflushopt" : NO Checking if "GCC atomic builtins" compiles: YES Checking if "GCC atomic builtins required -latomic" : links: YES Checking if "GCC 64bit atomics" with dependency : links: YES Library ws2_32 found: NO Header "sys/sysmacros.h" has symbol "major" : YES Header "sys/sysmacros.h" has symbol "minor" : YES Header "sys/sysmacros.h" has symbol "makedev" : YES Header "sys/mkdev.h" has symbol "major" : NO Check usable header "sched.h" : YES Checking for function "sched_getaffinity" : YES Check usable header "xlocale.h" : NO Check usable header "linux/futex.h" : YES Check usable header "endian.h" : YES Check usable header "dlfcn.h" : YES Check usable header "sys/shm.h" : YES Check usable header "cet.h" : NO Check usable header "pthread_np.h" : NO Check usable header "renderdoc_app.h" : NO Check usable header "sys/inotify.h" : YES Checking for function "strtof" : YES Checking for function "mkostemp" : YES Checking for function "memfd_create" : YES Checking for function "random_r" : YES Checking for function "flock" : YES Checking for function "strtok_r" : YES Checking for function "getrandom" : YES Checking for function "qsort_s" : NO Checking for function "posix_fallocate" : YES Checking if "GNU qsort_r" : links: YES Header "time.h" has symbol "struct timespec" : YES Checking for function "thrd_create" : YES Header "errno.h" has symbol "program_invocation_name" : YES Header "math.h" has symbol "issignaling" : YES Checking for function "posix_memalign" : YES Checking whether type "struct dirent" has member "d_type" : YES Checking if "strtod has locale support" : links: YES Checking if "Bsymbolic" : links: YES Checking if "version-script" : links: YES Checking if "dynamic-list" : links: YES Compiler for C supports link arguments -Wl,--build-id=sha1: YES Checking for function "dlopen" : YES Checking for function "dladdr" with dependency : YES Checking for function "dl_iterate_phdr" : YES Checking for function "clock_gettime" : YES Found pkg-config: /usr/bin/pkg-config (1.8.1) Run-time dependency zlib found: YES 1.2.13 Run-time dependency libzstd found: YES 1.5.4 Run-time dependency threads found: YES Checking for function "pthread_setaffinity_np" with dependency threads: YES Run-time dependency expat found: YES 2.5.0 Library m found: YES Run-time dependency libdrm found: YES 2.4.114 Run-time dependency libudev found: YES 251 Run-time dependency libelf found: YES 0.188 Run-time dependency valgrind found: NO (tried pkgconfig) Program bison found: YES (/usr/bin/bison) Program bison found: YES 3.8.2 (/usr/bin/bison) Program flex found: YES (/usr/bin/flex) Run-time dependency libunwind found: YES 1.6.2 Run-time dependency x11 found: YES 1.8.4 Run-time dependency xext found: YES 1.3.4 Run-time dependency xfixes found: YES 6.0.0 Run-time dependency xcb-glx found: YES 1.15 Run-time dependency xcb-shm found: YES 1.15 Run-time dependency xcb found: YES 1.15 Found CMake: /usr/bin/cmake (3.25.1) Run-time dependency xcb-keysyms found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake) Run-time dependency x11-xcb found: YES 1.8.4 Run-time dependency xcb-dri2 found: YES 1.15 Run-time dependency xcb-dri3 found: YES 1.15 Run-time dependency xcb-present found: YES 1.15 Dependency xcb-shm found: YES 1.15 (cached) Run-time dependency xcb-sync found: YES 1.15 Run-time dependency xshmfence found: YES 1.3 Run-time dependency glproto found: YES 1.4.17 Run-time dependency dri2proto found: YES 2.8 Run-time dependency xxf86vm found: YES 1.1.4 Run-time dependency xcb-xfixes found: YES 1.15 Run-time dependency xcb-randr found: YES 1.15 Run-time dependency xrandr found: YES 1.5.2 Library sensors found: NO Program nm found: YES (/usr/bin/nm) Program symbols-check.py found: YES (/usr/bin/python3 /Dati/mesa/bin/symbols- check.py) Program install_megadrivers.py found: YES (/usr/bin/python3 /Dati/mesa /bin/install_megadrivers.py) Program decode.py found: YES (/Dati/mesa/src/compiler/isaspec/decode.py) Program encode.py found: YES (/Dati/mesa/src/compiler/isaspec/encode.py) Program ln found: YES (/bin/ln) Checking for function "mincore" : YES Build targets in project: 214 mesa 23.3.0-devel Directories prefix : /usr/local libdir : lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf includedir : include Common C and C++ arguments c_cpp_args : -mtls-dialect=gnu2 OpenGL OpenGL : YES ES1 : YES ES2 : YES Shared glapi : YES GLVND : NO DRI Platform : drm Driver dir : /usr/local/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/dri GLX Enabled : YES Provider : dri EGL Enabled : YES Drivers : builtin:egl_dri2 builtin:egl_dri3 Platforms : x11 surfaceless drm xcb GBM Enabled : YES Backends path : /usr/local/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/gbm Vulkan Drivers : NO Video Codecs : NO APIs : NO LLVM Enabled : NO Gallium Enabled : YES Drivers : lima panfrost kmsro swrast Platforms : x11 surfaceless drm xcb Frontends : mesa Off-screen rendering (OSMesa): NO HUD lm-sensors : NO Perfetto Enabled : NO User defined options gallium-drivers : lima,panfrost,kmsro,swrast llvm : disabled platforms : x11 vulkan-drivers : Found ninja-1.11.1 at /usr/bin/ninja

$ echo "deb-src [signed-by="/usr/share/keyrings/ubuntu-archive-keyring.gpg"] http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports jammy main restricted universe multiverse" >> /etc/apt/sources.list $ sudo apt update $ sudo apt build-dep mesa $ clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa $ cd mesa $ meson build -Dgbm=enabled -Dopengl=true -Degl=enabled -Degl-native-platform=x11 -Dgles1=disabled -Dgles2=enabled -Ddri3=enabled -Dglx=dri -Dllvm=enabled -Dshared-llvm=disabled -Dplatforms=x11,wayland -Dgallium-drivers=swrast,virgl,zink -Dvulkan-drivers=swrast -Dosmesa=true -Dglvnd=true -Dxmlconfig=disabled $ sudo ninja -C build install

Basically there's this one driver for all intel/amd gpus (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa) and NVIDIA decided to make their own barely working driver (full of bugs) and also try to make their own standards & protocols instead of using the ones intel/amd have already created

For the curious (I was), I believe this is the associated commit: https://github.com/Mesa3D/mesa/commit/f2e535e4fed5bdc13e11a4...

So you're running Mesa 23 by compiling the code at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/ then?

no it uses amdgpu driver which is build into / part of the kernel (device drivers), and you can use 2 userspace graphics drivers, one being mesa the other one being amdvlk

Good luck, check out https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa and https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/gpu/drm?h=v6.2-rc1 this is for Linux, but I don't believe that the size of that project, would be different for windows.

> It turns out that unless the game is explicitly marked (by Valve reviewers), Steam Deck will use the Windows build + Proton even if a Linux version is available.

I found this which sounds like it's not the default, but is in fact a result of compatibility testing:

> If your game has gone through Steam Deck compatibility testing and the testers reported that the native Linux version didn't work (because of #579), then it might have been flagged to run the Windows binaries via Proton by default, instead of the native Linux version.

per https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime/issues/585

> Where is it written that steam-run will magically execute most binaries without patching them?

Somewhere in here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime

:p

But I do get what you're saying. Once Flakes are default, I hope people start a proper push to clear up documentation and streamline the development process. The end-result is amazing, and the perfect OS/packaging system for my needs. The means of getting there... need a lot of work. I'm along for the ride either way.

I think they have something a bit like a container built into Steam: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime

this is for steamworks API, my understanding is there's a separate SDK for consuming Linux dependencies like glibc. Like Soldier runtime, Sniper runtime, and so on. Am I wrong in thinking these are two separate SDKs? here's the link to the other SDK I'm talking about: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime

I'm not sure we can distribute a flatpak or an appimage through Steam. They have their own controlled environment called Steam Runtime (https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime) in which I should compile to be sure it runs everywhere (very similar to what I am doing). Last time, I look at this, it wasn't very clear and they supported only old versions of GCC. But it seems the documentation improved and now that I succeeded in building a modern version of GCC in my own container, maybe I could do that in theirs.

I believe it's usable outside of Steam: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime though the instructions are not particularly clear. There's also a link to the APT repo they use as a reference: https://repo.steampowered.com/steamrt/

Looking at the Flatpak version, if you want to use Proton versions 5.13 or newer with Steam in Flatpak, you need to install Flatpak from backports https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime/issues/294 . Using Flatpak saves having to install i386 if that matters to you.

> Game developers would be fine to target a single distro like Ubuntu 22.04.

Valve has its own container-only Linux distribution, called "Soldier Runtime" (https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime); especially for games distributed on Steam, it probably makes more sense to target that distribution instead of Ubuntu.