Steam Won't Start

Marco_Mod · Post by **Marco_Mod** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 1:48 pm

hi, i'm trying to install steam, i've tried manually installing wine from the debian squeeze repository (i have debian squeeze 32bit) and then purged all and installed via-playonlinux (lastest version) but the result is the same: steam shows up only in taskbar but i can't see nothing and if i focus it and then press enter is simply crashes... here is the terminal output:

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fixme:process:SetProcessShutdownParameters (00000100, 00000000): partial stub.
err:ntlm:SECUR32_initNTLMSP ntlm_auth was not found or is outdated. Make sure that ntlm_auth >= 3.0.25 is in your path.
err:ntlm:SECUR32_initNTLMSP Usually, you can find it in the winbind package of your distribution.
fixme:urlmon:CoInternetSetFeatureEnabled 5, 0x00000002, 1, stub
fixme:urlmon:CoInternetSetFeatureEnabled 10, 0x00000002, 1, stub
fixme:win:WIN_CreateWindowEx Parent is HWND_MESSAGE
fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 8202 (SPI_GETFONTSMOOTHINGTYPE)
fixme:shell:IsUserAdmin stub
fixme:toolhelp:CreateToolhelp32Snapshot Unimplemented: heap list snapshot
fixme:toolhelp:Heap32ListFirst : stub
fixme:shell:IsUserAdmin stub
fixme:threadpool:RtlQueueWorkItem Flags 0x4 not supported
fixme:dbghelp:dump_system_info fill in CPU vendorID and feature set

Marco_Mod · Post by **Marco_Mod** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 2:14 pm

seems to be solved checking "emulate virtual desktop" in wine configuration...

Bob Wya · Post by **Bob Wya** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 3:26 am

Marco_Mod wrote:seems to be solved checking "emulate virtual desktop" in wine configuration...

Hmmm. Steam should work OK, without the need to run it in a virtual desktop, and is very well supported in Wine 1.3.22+ (I am one of the Steam client AppDB maintainers). There should be no need to run it in a Virtual Desktop - unless you are using a broken Desktop Manager like Metacity (which doesn't render the Window correctly).

I refer you to a recent thread (please ignore my biased comments on it

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steam stop as soon as it's started
Installing the samba package (in Synaptic) should pull in you missing winbind dependency.

I would recommend using (once you have satisfied the native Linux package dependencies like winbind):

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winetricks steam

This command line code will use the Winetricks package to install the Steam client automagically. The Steam client will install in it's own prefix (I think it's ~/.share/wineprefixes/steam - or something similar...) and install necessary fonts, etc. The Steam client will then run using your installed Wine version (ideally this should be quite recent 1.3.x).

Bob