Help running Steam!

Devrij · 25 Feb 2013 at 07:15

I'm completely new to Ubuntu 12.10 (and Linux in general), so bear with me. I installed Steam yesterday, ran it all, was well. There was an update for the OS and I updated the gfx drivers to the AMD linux betas. Now, when I run Steam nothing happens. In terminal I get this

devrij@devrij:~$ steam
/usr/bin/steam: line 194: /home/devrij/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: Success
devrij@devrij:~$

So I have no idea what's going wrong.

Any ideas?

craptakular · 25 Feb 2013 at 07:22

Why did you update to beta drivers?

Try rolling back to the stable drivers

Devrij · 25 Feb 2013 at 07:46

I should clarify that I was running the stable flgr drivers before I tried the betas. Apparently they offer some serious performance improvements though?

melvis · 25 Feb 2013 at 13:19

just to ask, did you restart the X server after updating the drivers?

Devrij · 25 Feb 2013 at 16:48

what is the x server?

Devrij · 25 Feb 2013 at 16:49

Ah the Xorg server? more to the point, how do I restart it?

cb_linus · 25 Feb 2013 at 17:43

Devrij said:
Ah the Xorg server? more to the point, how do I restart it?

Code:

/etc/init.d/xdm restart

(make sure you have saved any work!! ;p) or just reboot the machine

Devrij · 25 Feb 2013 at 20:32

Oh, well I've rebooted since then.