AMDGPU-PRO 17.10 driver released

I guess if I'm using a legacy AMD GPU I have to use the open source drivers on Mint 18 and still can't use Steam ?

The open source AMD drivers won't stop you from running Steam and games, but your legacy GPU might.

No, you can run Steam with open source drivers.

on Mint 17 everything was fine, now on Mint 18 i get the 'bootstrap' error when trying to load up Steam because its looking for the proprietary drivers and Mint 18 doesn't have them. i realize its just a matter of removing some legacy code from Steam, but, not being great at this kind of thing last time i tried it i didn't have much luck

I'm using with open source ones. Steam Client is not looking for prop drivers. Is there any chance you tried the fglrx drivers by mistake? Because this fglrx drivers are not supported on Mint 18,Ubuntu 16.04. They're supporting Mint 17 , Ubuntu 14.04.

sudo apt-get purge steam

Remove Steam with this command. Go to the Steam page on your browser , install .deb Steam by just clicking.

thankyou all for the info, i cleared Steam off my system and re-installed from the website. clicked on the icon and it came up the terms and conditions page, agreed and clicked OK and.. nothing happened

thankyou all for the info, i cleared Steam off my system and re-installed from the website. clicked on the icon and it came up the terms and conditions page, agreed and clicked OK and.. nothing happened

Is there just a blank login window with Steam logo?
Your system language?

no, the terms and conditions window disappears after i click OK and nothing happens

my system language is UK

no, the terms and conditions window disappears after i click OK and nothing happens

my system language is UK

Weird, can you type steam to terminal and copy the outputs here?

here goes:

ultraviolet@HAL9000 ~ $ steam
Running Steam on linuxmint 18.1 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)
libGL error: unable to load driver: radeonsi_dri.so
libGL error: driver pointer missing
libGL error: failed to load driver: radeonsi
libGL error: unable to load driver: radeonsi_dri.so
libGL error: driver pointer missing
libGL error: failed to load driver: radeonsi
libGL error: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast


looks like a driver problem

here goes:

ultraviolet@HAL9000 ~ $ steam
Running Steam on linuxmint 18.1 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)
libGL error: unable to load driver: radeonsi_dri.so
libGL error: driver pointer missing
libGL error: failed to load driver: radeonsi
libGL error: unable to load driver: radeonsi_dri.so
libGL error: driver pointer missing
libGL error: failed to load driver: radeonsi
libGL error: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast


looks like a driver problem

Yes,it is.

Did you add Padoka Stable Ppa and update your drivers with it?

On Mint,you need to select 4. Level updates to see them on Update Manager.

after doing the Padoka PPA and refreshing the update manager and it not coming up with any new software [i had levels 4 & 5 visible] i tried the Oibaf PPA and i got some updated drivers with that, still no luck though.

Adding all the driver/mesa PPAs at the same time doesn't seem like a safe thing to do. If you did this anyway, you should use ppa-purge to remove all but one of them. I recommend leaving either the ubuntu-x-swat one or padoka's stable PPA.

This won't solve the problem, though. I guess Valve didn't update the .deb on their website with the latest version.

This comes from the fact that the Open source drivers are compiled against a newer version of the libraries present in the runtime.

Try to launch it with:

STEAM_RUNTIME=0 steam
Then, update steam (opt into beta branch if necessary, I've been staying there for more than three years :P).

You might need to install some libraries to launch steam, though. Another way of fixing it is to launch
 find ~/.steam/root/ \( -name "libgcc_s.so*" -o -name "libstdc++.so*" -o -name "libxcb.so*" -o -name "libgpg-error.so*" \) -print -delete
Then restart Steam. Not the cleanest way, but I used to to it regularly before having the steam-native option on Arch.

I agree with the others, though. You should install only one graphics PPA. Probably x-swat, as it should be more stable, but you might choose otherwise (I am not using Ubuntu, so I don't have much experience with those PPAs).


Last edited by MayeulC on 12 April 2017 at 1:51 pm UTC

This won't solve the problem, though. I guess Valve didn't update the .deb on their website with the latest version.

This comes from the fact that the Open source drivers are compiled against a newer version of the libraries present in the runtime.

Try to launch it with:

STEAM_RUNTIME=0 steam
Then, update steam (opt into beta branch if necessary, I've been staying there for more than three years :P).

worked perfectly thankyou.

and with the updated drivers my games work [as expected] much better, plus no graphical glitches in Defense Grid 2 and Assault Android Cactus has a much smoother framerate.


thanks again