Bug#790789: steam: Many Games don't work using Debian's fglrx infrastructure

[Claudio Clemens]

Package: steam
Version: 1.0.0.49-1
Severity: important

Hi there,

I have an AMD Radeon R9 270 graphics card, and was getting many problems
with some games. The games wouldn't start.

I tried many thing. Using the radeon OpenSource driver wasn't an option,
as it lacks 3D support (at least for my card).

I tried then the debian version of the AMD driver. Almost all the
packages for fglrx were installed:
glx-alternative-fglrx
fglrx-modules-dkms
libgl1-fglrx-glx
....etc...
And of course the i386 counterparts too.

Steam was starting fine, some games too, but some games not. They were
not starting at all, or giving some error messages about missing
GL-features.

With this setup, steam brought always at the start the warning about "no
direct rendering" support.

Then I tried the drivers downloaded directly from AMD. Installed them,
and now steam starts without warnings, and all games are launching
correctly. So _steam is working_.

So this is not really a Bug-Report, but some kind of info, to be placed
in /usr/share/doc/steam I think. I have no idea, why using the *fglrx*
packages didn't work, es before with wheezy, I was using the same
version (14.9, but downloaded from AMD) and everythink worked ok.

Maybe this is a bug for the *fglrx* packages then.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages steam depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                 1.5.56
ii  libc6                                 2.19-18
ii  libgl1-mesa-dri                       10.3.2-1
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx                       10.3.2-1
ii  libstdc++6                            4.9.2-10
ii  libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0 [libtxc-dxtn0]      0~git20131104-1.1
ii  libudev1                              215-17+deb8u1
ii  libx11-6                              2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxinerama1                          2:1.1.3-1+b1
ii  xfce4-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]  0.6.3-1+b1
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]           312-2
ii  xz-utils                              5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3

Versions of packages steam recommends:
ii  fonts-liberation  1.07.4-1
ii  zenity            3.14.0-1

steam suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  steam/purge:
* steam/question: I AGREE
* steam/license: