| 16 May 2024 |
 Atemu | Tumble: If your headset is supported (SteamVR lighthouse tracking), you can just about get it to play OpenVR games | 13:53:46 |
| Atemu | Unsure what the status is on HL:A, you'd have to research whether opencomposite works with it | 13:54:20 |
| Atemu | Now that I think about it, I scoured their source a while back and I think I saw some HL:A specific hacks | 13:55:08 |
|  crunch joined the room. | 14:41:41 |
 Tumble | In reply to @atemu12:matrix.org
Tumble: If your headset is supported (SteamVR lighthouse tracking), you can just about get it to play OpenVR games i have the first htc vive (not pro) and i have the index controllers | 16:16:54 |
|  real_z2 left the room. | 16:20:08 |
| Atemu | Tumble: In that case it's at least worth trying | 17:18:27 |
| Atemu | Don't expect it to replace SteamVR as your "daily driver" but it should at least work somewhat | 17:18:51 |
| Tumble | what if i distro hop briefly just to play half life alyx story line | 21:58:54 |
| 17 May 2024 |
 woobilicious | Is there any reason why we don't just install steam-hardware's udev rules by default? it seems that steam needs these rules to detect hotplugged devices, not just for steam specific hardware. | 06:47:22 |
 K900 | What devices though? | 06:48:44 |
| K900 | It should only need those for controllers | 06:48:49 |
| woobilicious | Yeah, the documentation makes me think I only needed it for the Steam Controller and Steam VR, but there's rules there for about 30 different controllers, PS4, Switch, Nvidia Shield etc. | 06:50:52 |
| woobilicious | No rules for Xbox...so I might need to further investigate why it's not hotplug detecting my xbox 360 controller. | 06:52:34 |
| woobilicious | Or it'll start working randomly. | 06:56:39 |
| K900 | Those controllers are for Steam Input | 06:58:44 |
| K900 | That is, if the rules are there, Steam can take over and driver the controller from userspace | 06:59:02 |
| K900 | Which allows all the fancy remapping machinery to work | 06:59:09 |
| woobilicious | Yeah I'm confused now, I had to restart steam the other day before it didn't detect my controller and now it's working fine. I did have issues with my own custom uinput emulator a while back, but I put that down to the nature of custom uinput devices. | 07:02:03 |
| woobilicious | really wish I had backed up that custom uinput device...3 years of bcachefs patches left it corrupt :. | 07:05:16 |
| woobilicious | I could update the docs atleast be slightly more accurate, it does seem weird to not just install the udev rules. I assume most people running steam would want it to just work. | 07:14:59 |
| K900 | The rules are installed if you use programs.steam.enable = true | 07:15:21 |
| woobilicious | ohh I didn't see that. | 07:16:08 |
| K900 | FWIW, the amdgpu crash fix should be in today's kernel updates | 12:06:58 |
| 18 May 2024 |
|  Mildras left the room. | 11:47:28 |
| 19 May 2024 |
| Tumble | Is there a good way of using open suse on my system for a bit just to play a specific vr game and then come back when I'm finished?
I have btrfs on 2 drives, one has a sub volume called root and the other drive has a sub volume called home
Could I just make a new subvolumes for open suse and then delete them when finished
How does /boot work, could I just overwrite it and then have nix overwrite it later or is there a better way like properly dual booting or soemthing | 08:53:31 |
| K900 | You can probably just boot it from a USB stick or something | 08:53:54 |
| Tumble | Can I run vr from a live cd? | 08:54:21 |
| K900 | I don't see why not | 08:54:35 |
| Tumble | In reply to @k900:0upti.me
I don't see why not Ah ok good, I thought I'd struggle with drivers or storage or soemthing but no
I just installed steam and then added my steam library from nix
Then launched steam vr in that library and then seems to work | 09:27:14 |
