Steam Deck

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A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.

Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.

As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title

The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.

Some more Steam Deck specific flairs:
[Boot Screen] - Custom boot screens/videos.
[Selling] - If you are selling your deck.

These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.

Rules:

Follow the rules of Sopuli
Posts must be related to the Steam Deck in an obvious way.
No piracy, there are other communities for that.
Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
This is a place of civil discussion, no trolling.
Have fun.

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Happy three years to the Steam Deck - the Linux gaming machine that changed everything (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Funnily enough I had precisely one issue out of a GTX-1080 running Linux Mint, and it had little to do with Linux.

I went from attaching two 1080p monitors by HDMI to one that attached by DisplayPort. The computer ran fine...until I rebooted it. The machine failed to POST. Turns out I could boot the machine with an HDMI monitor attached, attach the DP monitor, and it would run fine, but it would fail to POST with that monitor plugged in.

Turns out it was an issue with the card's firmware that would cause the card to fail to initialize with a monitor running a recent version of DP attached, the BIOS would fail to find a video adapter and thus fail to POST. It wasn't a driver issue, it was a firmware issue. And of course Nvidia provides no means of updating graphics card firmware in Linux, so the easiest solution was to rip the card out of the machine, carry it to a Windows computer, download and run the updater, and re-transplant the card.

I still game on that system; it's my home theater PC now.