ALVR linux not connecting with quest 3 wired | ALVR | Page 1

orchid plover Dec 25, 2023, 5:07 PM

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i read in other threads that version 20.4.3 should be used for wired.
i cant seem to get it working at all (quest stays on "searching for steamer")
and alvr on pc just says 6037.client.alvr: 0.0.0.0 (Unknown) Disconnected
i used the linux zip version since i had issues with the drivers being put in my /tmp folder

i used the adb command for tcp:9943 and tcp:9944

OS stuff
Operating System: Fedora Linux 39
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.9
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.111.0
Qt Version: 5.15.11
Kernel Version: 6.6.4-200.fc39.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core Processor
Memory: 30.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
Product Name: MS-7D77
System Version: 1.0

📎 vrserver.txt

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oh and for some reason i cant get a usb 3.0 cable to work at all (even not in sidequest to forward tcp)
idk if i did something wrong... just forgot to mention that

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oh...

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📎 vrserver.txt 📎 vrstartup.txt 📎 vrwebhelper_main.txt

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Idk if any of those logs are helpful but included them regardless

dense barn Dec 25, 2023, 5:37 PM

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Yea you can basically just ignore vrwebhelper crashes.. configuration of it however I can't exactly help you on that other than did you follow the guidelines in the wiki. I don't really use a USB connection for streaming

orchid plover Dec 25, 2023, 5:37 PM

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Yes

dense barn Dec 25, 2023, 5:37 PM

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Don't forget to launch SteamVR using the dashboard not steam itself

orchid plover Dec 25, 2023, 5:37 PM

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I followed it

orchid plover Dec 25, 2023, 5:38 PM

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dense barn Don't forget to launch SteamVR using the dashboard not steam itself

Ye i did

dense barn Dec 25, 2023, 5:38 PM

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And the server did connect to SteamVR right?

orchid plover Dec 25, 2023, 5:39 PM

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Version 20.5 "work" but was laggy as hell

dense barn Dec 25, 2023, 5:39 PM

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Do you use AMD?

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Yea you do

orchid plover Dec 25, 2023, 5:39 PM

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dense barn And the server did connect to SteamVR right?

Yes, the yellow banner disappeared and bottom left said connected

orchid plover Dec 25, 2023, 5:39 PM

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dense barn Yea you do

it just works (gpu on linux)

dense barn Dec 25, 2023, 5:40 PM

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orchid plover Version 20.5 "work" but was laggy as hell

Make sure to set the power profile to VR else it's going to be super laggy

orchid plover Dec 25, 2023, 5:40 PM

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dense barn Make sure to set the power profile to VR else it's going to be super laggy

I have that by default

dense barn Dec 25, 2023, 5:40 PM

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You can do this in the cli, corectrl, or lact

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It does for me

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But

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

orchid plover Dec 25, 2023, 5:40 PM

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dense barn It does for me

It may depend on the gpu

dense barn Dec 25, 2023, 5:41 PM

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I have the same GPU as you

orchid plover Dec 25, 2023, 5:41 PM

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Good ol' _on my machine it works _ 😆

dense barn Dec 25, 2023, 5:43 PM

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Ah yea he's a Fedora user

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^

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To be fair what distro doesn't have cef problems lol

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Specially with SteamVR

orchid plover Dec 25, 2023, 6:17 PM

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They should be all installed (handbrake uses it and it works) 🤔

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Ill have another look in a bit. Just had dinner

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Ill try appimage 1st since it should be self contained

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Since the 20.5.x appimage works but god awful pixels

dense barn Dec 25, 2023, 6:28 PM

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orchid plover They should be all installed (handbrake uses it and it works) 🤔

You definitely don't have x264 else you wouldn't have that

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That being this very specific missing file error

dense barn Dec 25, 2023, 6:30 PM

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orchid plover Since the 20.5.x appimage works but god awful pixels

That's because it's likely using software encoding for some people vaapi is broken so you get software encoding which is terrible

lethal hinge Dec 25, 2023, 6:32 PM

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Hello I'm on steam deck and it's linux so everything I try to connect it doesn't connect

orchid plover Dec 25, 2023, 6:33 PM

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mesa is more than fits on screen

lethal hinge Dec 25, 2023, 6:33 PM

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It just says please plug in your headset

orchid plover Dec 25, 2023, 6:33 PM

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i dont think running it on a deck is the smartest move... but who am i to judge

dense barn Dec 25, 2023, 6:33 PM

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lethal hinge Hello I'm on steam deck and it's linux so everything I try to connect it doesn't...

Please create your own issue

lethal hinge Dec 25, 2023, 6:33 PM

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Ok I'm srry

dense barn Dec 25, 2023, 6:34 PM

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orchid plover mesa is more than fits on screen

Did you compile alvr yourself correct?

orchid plover Dec 25, 2023, 6:35 PM

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no

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i used the released zip

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one sec

dense barn Dec 25, 2023, 6:35 PM

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Ohhh

orchid plover Dec 25, 2023, 6:35 PM

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but the latest one does work but not over wired

dense barn Dec 25, 2023, 6:37 PM

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Yea it should work just fine over USB but people have trouble some people say it works the same way some not realistically we just need someone to do libusb integration

orchid plover Dec 25, 2023, 6:37 PM

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hmm lemme get the appimage and see if that one works (i should... hopefully)

dense barn Dec 25, 2023, 6:38 PM

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A video editor

orchid plover Dec 25, 2023, 6:38 PM

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ish

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oops didnt meant to ping

dense barn Dec 25, 2023, 6:38 PM

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^ it's a little bit more complicated than that but eh

orchid plover Dec 25, 2023, 6:38 PM

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only not mesa-freeworld but i dont see any package with that name at all

dense barn Dec 25, 2023, 6:38 PM

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(not talking about the openx264 bit)

orchid plover Dec 25, 2023, 6:39 PM

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hmm

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well vaapi is installed

dense barn Dec 25, 2023, 6:39 PM

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No it's not

dense barn Dec 25, 2023, 6:40 PM

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orchid plover well vaapi is installed

That's gstreamer's vaapi backend not vaapi itself

orchid plover Dec 25, 2023, 6:40 PM

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ah

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its not quite called mesa-freeworld

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seems vdpau is already installed

dense barn Dec 25, 2023, 6:48 PM

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Alvr doesn't use vdpau

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That's a decoding API only makes no sense as the streamer needs to encode not decode

orchid plover Dec 25, 2023, 6:50 PM

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well they are the mesa freeworld ones from what i can find

dense barn Dec 25, 2023, 6:50 PM

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I'm pretty sure it's either just mesa-freeworld

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And the vaapi drivers are abbreviated to just va

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I know it can be confusing if you don't know what to look for

orchid plover Dec 25, 2023, 6:51 PM

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sudo dnf search freeworld is all this #1188890708929683456 message

dense barn Dec 25, 2023, 6:51 PM

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Here install
mesa-va-drivers-freeworld that's the name to help you out

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If you just read the description you would've seen that

orchid plover Dec 25, 2023, 6:53 PM

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of the post?

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one sec... gotta deal with this one

orchid plover Dec 25, 2023, 6:59 PM

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dense barn Here install mesa-va-drivers-freeworld that's the name to help you out

well got confilcts trying to install that one

dense barn Dec 25, 2023, 7:00 PM

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You may need to run different commands look at the reddit post

orchid plover Dec 25, 2023, 7:01 PM

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welp lets see...

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ran it and hand full of system complaints

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removed 2 and added bunch

orchid plover Dec 25, 2023, 7:04 PM

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dense barn You may need to run different commands look at the reddit post

ill reboot and see if it works

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i had about 6GB of updated to go so i also did those just now

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soo i assume just retry now

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@sharp steeplelaunched through ALVR

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will send log

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📎 vrserver.txt

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i see a window flash for a frame and then that window is gone

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idk what changing it shouldve done but it broke steamvr

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even the appimage doenst work now

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well 20.5.0 works

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WTF

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or rather... "streamer is restarting"

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hmmm it seems 20.5.0 works at the moment

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and yet.... 20.5.0 works

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idk how but it works (and it seems to also be working over cable)

dense barn Dec 25, 2023, 7:51 PM

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Can you search for libx264.so and see what shows up

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It's looking for a very specific version

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Yea

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That's what I'm thinking

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Damn it I forgot what I was about to do

orchid plover Dec 25, 2023, 7:57 PM

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yes its using ip 127.0.0.1

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well im not compaining

dense barn Dec 25, 2023, 7:57 PM

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Is it using vaapi through?

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Could you check in the logs

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(the logs in the dashboard)

orchid plover Dec 25, 2023, 8:09 PM

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dense barn (the logs in the dashboard)

they are all blue client info

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ig i can send the file too

dense barn Dec 25, 2023, 8:11 PM

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You have to connect and then quickly disconnect else your logs are just going to be filled with that

orchid plover Dec 25, 2023, 8:11 PM

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where does the appimage store them

dense barn Dec 25, 2023, 8:11 PM

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You need to enable that first

orchid plover Dec 25, 2023, 8:11 PM

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wdym?

dense barn Dec 25, 2023, 8:12 PM

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Log to disk because alvr does really have a deletion stat so you can get multiple gbs of a log file

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So just quickly connect and disconnect the headset

orchid plover Dec 25, 2023, 8:13 PM

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how w/o killing the session?

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sleep mode?

dense barn Dec 25, 2023, 8:14 PM

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Yes

dense barn Dec 25, 2023, 8:29 PM

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So you got it?

orchid plover Dec 25, 2023, 8:36 PM

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dense barn So you got it?

i think so

dense barn Dec 25, 2023, 8:39 PM

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Hmm yeah maybe you do need to reset the session

orchid plover Dec 25, 2023, 8:56 PM

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Well it works...

dense barn Dec 25, 2023, 8:58 PM

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Ok don't forget to add the resolved tag

orchid plover Dec 25, 2023, 8:58 PM

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well idk if vaapi is working

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tho its suuuuper weird how 20.4.3 doesnt work but 20.5.0 does

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what?

dense barn Dec 25, 2023, 8:59 PM

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Your resolution

orchid plover Dec 25, 2023, 8:59 PM

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ah]

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sec

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high

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it was doing decent

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~70% usage

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hmm is there a cable to change the quest AND use usb?
its rn almost empty since the im stuck to a usb 2.0 cable

dense barn Dec 25, 2023, 9:03 PM

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Your using a quest 2 right?

orchid plover Dec 25, 2023, 9:03 PM

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3

dense barn Dec 25, 2023, 9:05 PM

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Hmm not sure, but I know medium fits the native quest 2 resolution perfectly(and it scales depending on your headset's width so the quest 2 mid is not the same as the quest 3's because well they have different resolutions

orchid plover Dec 25, 2023, 9:06 PM

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oh well ill use mid then since it was deffinitly dropping frames (not many tho)

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well in the end it was for me switching to the latest version that fixed it

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@sharp steepleis there a difference between the setup of the usb connection for the quest 2 vs quest 3? (as in software side, not the adb stuff)

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hmm weird how it works fine over usb for me then

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hmm iinm usb has seperate data lines for power communication

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well i 1st need to figure out why i cant use a usb 3.0 connection with my pc

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does ALVR support 3.0?

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i see

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nvm 3.0 does work...

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so all i need to find is a usb C cable with a seperate power plug

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im still confused on what prevented it from running but... im happy it works again

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it weird how its not able to find the libx264.so since its working with the latest version... (but im not complaining tho) 🤷

orchid plover Dec 26, 2023, 12:36 AM

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Found the fix for the power issue
https://github.com/Jana-Marie/PD-Injector

GitHub

GitHub - Jana-Marie/PD-Injector: USB-PD Power/Data Splitter

USB-PD Power/Data Splitter. Contribute to Jana-Marie/PD-Injector development by creating an account on GitHub.

dense barn Dec 26, 2023, 12:40 AM

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Ahh yes the classic PC USB ports being crap

orchid plover Dec 26, 2023, 12:40 AM

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This exactly what I need 😄

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Should be a matter of getting 2 usb c cables and then opening them and cutting the data one and using that one for pd while the other one goes to the pc with the data lines and ground only

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TIL

dense barn Dec 26, 2023, 12:48 AM

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Skill issue by mobo manufacturers

dense barn Dec 26, 2023, 12:51 AM

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dense barn Skill issue by mobo manufacturers

Mine has one port labeled VR

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Which I'm pretty sure is pd

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But yea for not every port to be able to go up to 15w is a skill issue

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Maybe not front io but definitely back io

dense barn Dec 26, 2023, 1:10 AM

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orchid plover Found the fix for the power issue https://github.com/Jana-Marie/PD-Injector

Hmm once I get my 3D printer I might make a case for that

orchid plover Dec 26, 2023, 9:45 AM

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dense barn Hmm once I get my 3D printer I might make a case for that

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dense barn Dec 26, 2023, 11:26 PM

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