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First commands

  • Initial setup hangs at '1 second remaining': poweroff the steam deck, and have it connect to a 2.5Ghz network. I did run the wlan chip of my Thinkpad with Fedora38 in Access Point mode for this.
  • Desktop mode: power off menu, choose desktop mode
  • run ssh:
    • enter desktop mode, start kconsole
    • 'passwd' to set a password for the user
    • 'sudo systemctl enable --now sshd'
    • 'ip a s' to see the current IP addressses
    • from remote system: ssh deck@<ip>
  • invoke virtual keyboard on the screen: <steam-button>+<X-button>
  • Install flatpak: 'pacman -S flatpak'
  • RetroDeck emulation platform
  • mosh
    • 'pacman -S mosh'
    • locale errors: 'pacman -Syu glibc; locale-gen'
  • Disable touchscreen without a HDMI screen configured
    • I was curious on how this changes power consumption
    • configuration: install arandr with 'pacman -S arandr', go to desktop mode, run 'arandr' from a terminal, disable internal screen
    • ⇒ disabling touchscreen vs. dimmed down touchscreen brings down consumption by 0.7W

pacman cheatsheet

# pacman setup
steamos-readonly disable
pacman-key --populate archlinux

# install mosh
pacman -S mosh

# Upgrade pacman packages:
pacman -Syu

# search for packages with ^apr
pacman -Ss '^apr'

# which package has file limits.h?
pacman -Fy limits.h

Fedora

You can nicely install Fedora 39. Ventoy did not start, but writing a Fedora server image to a usb-stick, putting that into the steck deck dock, then keeping “volume down” pressed and pressing “power” allows to boot from the usb-stick. Also booting from usb3-connected NVMe enclosure works, but that is later in Anaconda not available for Fedora installation. Installing onto microsd card works.

I run Plasma. nebula virtual vpn. RHEL9 virtualized via KVM. Remote desktop via VNC works nicely: just execute 'krfb'. Plasma can also nicely do scaling, do you can stuff quite some things onto the 1280x screen.

hardwarerelated/steam_deck.txt · Last modified: 2023/12/16 06:25 by chris