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The412Banner 9f2c98d28d ARMSX2: a new player starts on the Vulkan renderer (GSRendererType::VK = 14), not Auto's pick 2026-09-24 04:32:58 -04:00
The412Banner 4ef3bc92de ARMSX2 like RPCS3: front-end launches, first-time setup, PCSX2 settings, 16K pages; on-screen controls everywhere
- From the rail ARMSX2 starts the game in its full-screen, controller-driven UI
  and exits with it (-batch -bigpicture -fullscreen).
- bannerlator-pad-defaults: a PCSX2 player's settings and memory cards are
  copied into ARMSX2 once; a new player starts on ARMSX2's first-time setup with
  the BIOS folder in the ROMs folder (ps2/bios, created, or ps2/firmware), the
  ps2 folder as the game list and the controller on Player 1; the guide button
  opens the pause menu (how a rail game is left) instead of toggling analog.
  Users bring their own BIOS and games.
- The catalog can name a file per memory page size ("pages"); the device's own
  size picks it (ARMSX2 has 4K and 16K builds).
- On-screen controls: Auto keeps them off the desktop (the screen is a touchpad
  there) and shows them for rail games and Steam when no controller is
  connected; the drawer offers the setting in every session.
2026-09-24 04:29:57 -04:00
The412Banner 1b44e5345f ARMSX2 (PS2 with ARM64 recompilers) in the front end, with Player 1 on the controller
Upstream PCSX2 interprets the PS2's CPUs on ARM64 (pcsx2/arm64/RecStubs.cpp):
NFS Underground 2 ran at 17 fps with one core at 100%. ARMSX2 is the PCSX2 fork
with ARM64 recompilers. It is listed beside PCSX2 for the ps2 folder, installs
from the desktop catalog (package armsx2), and bannerlator-pad-defaults gives it
the PCSX2 profile under its own folder (ARMSX2/inis/PCSX2.ini).
2026-09-23 23:55:20 -04:00
The412Banner 6192d5be2c Desktop: Vulkan by default; a renderer that fails to start is remembered
vulkan is the default desktop renderer (settings list it first). When labwc
cannot start on a GPU renderer the desktop falls back to pixman as before, and
now records the renderer with the patched wlroots and Linux driver it failed
on, so later desktops go straight to pixman instead of waiting 20 s each time;
an app update, a different driver, or choosing a renderer again in the settings
(which deletes the record) retries.
2026-09-23 22:49:50 -04:00
The412Banner 76300aa8b7 PS3: one shader cache, no interpreter precompile
- A program from the rail draws with the desktop's Linux driver instead of the
  Steam session's. The driver's shader cache is keyed on its build, so with two
  drivers an emulator compiled everything once per way of starting it; seen on
  device: desktop on the imported Turnip 26.3.0, rail on the runtime's own.
- RPCS3's default shader mode builds 6650 interpreter pipelines every boot.
  bannerlator-pad-defaults starts a new install on Async Recompiler
  (multi-threaded) and moves an existing one still on the default once; a
  marker leaves any later choice in RPCS3's settings alone. Enum strings from
  rpcs3/Emu/system_config_types.cpp.
2026-09-23 22:35:28 -04:00
The412Banner ae863cc613 Controller profiles for every desktop emulator; PC keyboard under half the screen
bannerlator-pad-defaults now covers DuckStation, PCSX2, Dolphin (GameCube and
Wii), Cemu, melonDS, PPSSPP and RetroArch as well as RPCS3, from each project's
source: files an emulator would otherwise fill with keyboard-only defaults are
seeded when missing (Dolphin, Cemu, PPSSPP, RPCS3), or given SDL bindings in the
config the emulator wrote itself when nothing binds a controller yet
(DuckStation, PCSX2 with its SettingsVersion, melonDS). RetroArch gets an Xbox
360 profile for its sdl2 driver and is moved off udev, which finds no pads in the
runtime. The desktop re-runs it every 30 s, so an emulator's first config is
covered for its next start.

The PC keyboard takes 47% of the screen height, header included.
2026-09-23 22:20:04 -04:00
The412Banner a6bab67508 Desktop programs: controller seen by every emulator, Player 1 profiles, big-core pinning
- The pad keeps Steam Input's virtual-gamepad identity only in Steam sessions.
  SDL ignores a Steam virtual gamepad unless run under Steam, so on the desktop
  and from the rail every SDL emulator saw no controller at all; there it is a
  plain Xbox 360 pad now, which SDL and evdev map by themselves.
- bannerlator-pad-defaults writes Player 1 on the controller for emulators that
  have no profile yet (RPCS3 first: without one it takes the keyboard). Run at
  desktop start and before a program from the rail; never overwrites.
- The desktop and everything started from it, and a program from the rail, run
  on the game cores when chosen, else every core but the slowest cluster
  (program_cores); BL_PIN_CORES=0 turns it off. Game cores reach every mode.
2026-09-23 22:06:47 -04:00
The412Banner b9ec8458f8 Desktop: remote runs from ~/.cache/droiddeck/run behind ~/.droiddeck-remote-run
For driving the desktop from a debugger: a script dropped there runs once inside
the session. Off unless the marker exists.
2026-09-23 21:37:16 -04:00
The412Banner 60d53fda47 Desktop GPU: full labwc log on the GPU renderers; a labwc that hangs at start falls back to pixman
The vulkan desktop sat on the loading screen: labwc connected and never opened
its window, and it did not exit, so the exit-based fallback never fired. The
launcher now asks labwc's socket for an answer (wayland-info, 3 s) for up to
20 s, then stops it and starts the desktop on pixman. labwc runs with -d on
vulkan/gles2 so desktop.log shows where it stopped.
2026-09-23 21:24:24 -04:00
The412Banner 29597c3fbe Desktop GPU: menu games run in their own gamescope; labwc on the patched wlroots
droiddeck-gpu runs a program in a gamescope of its own on the app's compositor
(wayland-0), full screen over the desktop - the path the rail's play chips use,
where Vulkan works. droiddeck-desktop-gpu gives every Game/Emulator menu entry a
per-user copy through it (auto: while the desktop is on pixman), keeping 'Run in
a desktop window' as an action.

droiddeck-desktop loads /usr/local/lib/droiddeck-wlroots for the vulkan/gles2
renderers and falls back to pixman when labwc stops at start. The build stages
the wlroots release named by tools/wlroots/release.env, once published.
2026-09-23 21:02:24 -04:00
The412Banner 9f33bdd094 First sign-in fetches the ARM64 Proton and restarts the client once, as Bannerlator does
On a fresh install the client starts signed out and drops the
steam://install/4427310 the session hands it, so the Proton Experimental
(ARM64) dialog only appeared after the user restarted the client by
hand. Ported from Bannerlator's session (device-proven there 2026-09-22):

- With no remembered sign-in, a watcher on logs/connection_log.txt waits
  for the sign-in to complete and asks the running client again.
- A watcher on appmanifest_4427310.acf waits for StateFlags 4, registers
  the compatibility tool again, leaves ~/.bl-restart-once and asks the
  client to -shutdown; the start loop sees the marker and starts it once
  more (not counted against the update cap), so the tool lists and
  defaults are current before the user installs a game.
- The client-branch check runs before every start, not once, since the
  client rewrites package/beta during its run.

The loading screen no longer says Steam keeps running in the background:
sessions pause when the app leaves the screen (Background behavior).
2026-09-23 18:48:19 -04:00
The412Banner ae6dcc9798 Rename the app SteamDeck → DroidDeck
App name, app ID and code package: DroidDeck, com.droiddeck.launcher
(sources moved to com/droiddeck/launcher, the 68 JNI functions renamed
with them). The new app ID installs beside SteamDeck rather than over it.

Everywhere the name was the app's own: the sidebar title, the session
report, share zips, the shell title, wake-lock and log tags, User-Agents,
the Compose theme, the Download folder and switch files (droiddeck-env,
-osc, -driver, -tu-debug, -no-pad, -pad-log, -no-hud, -wlr-renderer; the
old names are not read), and inside the runtime (droiddeck-desktop,
Firefox's droiddeck.js, the shortcuts tag, the rumble socket, debug and
cache paths). Build scripts, CI artifact (droiddeck-apk), CMake project,
README and the progress log follow.

Kept on purpose: Valve's Steam Deck (the -steamdeck flag,
steamdeck_publicbeta/stable, 'Steam Deck mode', the steamos.cloud
package URLs) and names inside the hosted desktop package (steamdeck.png,
steamdeck-steam, steamdeck-bigpicture). 'Desktop installed' now tests for
labwc instead of the launcher the app stages itself. A committed
__pycache__ .pyc is removed.
2026-09-23 18:28:04 -04:00
The412Banner d21f102482 Session: clear a killed session's leftovers, offer NIS in Deck mode, mangoapp hook
Before the client starts, remove .crash, steam.pid and the web helper's
htmlcache Singleton* locks when no client is running - Android ends
sessions without warning and those files leave the next start on the
update spinner or a blank Gamepad UI (SteamOS-ARM-SM8550's RUNSTEAM.sh
does the same). Deck mode exports STEAM_GAMESCOPE_NIS_SUPPORTED=1 so the
QAM's scaling filter lists NIS, and passes gamescope --mangoapp when
mangoapp is present (BL_MANGOAPP=0 turns it off).
2026-09-23 16:33:16 -04:00
The412Banner a70f7b28da session: gamescope forces game windows to fill the screen in Steam mode (a game that shrank its window while the Steam menu was open came back in the top-left corner) 2026-09-23 09:12:39 -04:00
The412Banner eb2bfa57aa steam shortcuts: art the user set inside the client is never recorded as ours, so it survives when a game's own art goes away 2026-09-23 09:12:26 -04:00
The412Banner 44ea7bae78 added games: artwork - the game folder's own images first, else Steam's store art for the title, into the client's grid
frontend/AddedGameArt: cover/poster/boxart/folder-name images, header, hero, logo and icon from
the game's folder (or its art subfolder); otherwise a one-time store search by folder name and
the capsule, header, hero and logo from Steam's CDN into the app's cache (a miss retried after a
week); an icon pulled from the .exe. The rail shows the portrait. The session's listing carries
the paths; bannerlator-steam-shortcuts copies them into userdata/<acct>/config/grid under the
client's names, never over a file it did not write itself, and sets the shortcut's icon. A toggle
in the cog turns the store lookup off.
2026-09-23 09:12:26 -04:00
The412Banner 8f299d8752 deck mode: jupiter-dock-updater --check answers 7 (up to date); exit 0 read as an update waiting and showed a Dock Firmware Update row 2026-09-23 09:12:25 -04:00
The412Banner cde82be161 steam shortcuts: name the source loader for the suffix-less registrar so the added games get their Proton mapping 2026-09-23 09:12:15 -04:00
The412Banner a6eb2ba1dd steam shortcuts: extend the buffer instead of rebinding it inside the nested writer (UnboundLocalError on device) 2026-09-23 09:12:15 -04:00
The412Banner 93b3d49575 gamescope: the apk stages its patched build over /usr/local/bin when it carries one, the APK build fetches it from the release release.env names, and the session asks for realtime Vulkan queues 2026-09-23 09:12:15 -04:00
The412Banner 65b00242d9 Added games: the user's own Windows games in the client's library
A Games folder chosen in the Steam cog is scanned one level deep, one subfolder per game; the
program to launch is the .exe named after the folder, else the largest, never an installer,
redistributable or crash reporter, and the settings page lets the user pick another for any
game. Each session the app writes the list, and bannerlator-steam-shortcuts puts the games into
the client's shortcuts.vdf as non-Steam games (the client's own entries kept) with the appid the
client itself derives, mapped to the ARM64 Proton through the compat registrar. They appear in
the rail under Steam and launch by steam://rungameid/ like any title.
2026-09-23 09:12:15 -04:00
The412Banner 773f4a6e6d Deck mode: the four helpers the client really calls, at the path it calls them
On device the client's console log showed the calls: /usr/bin/steamos-polkit-helpers/steamos-update,
steamos-select-branch, jupiter-biosupdate and jupiter-dock-updater - the polkit-helpers path, not
/usr/bin. The missing steamos-update there was the 'Update Error' dialog. Stubs at both paths now.

Also seen on device: -steamdeck alone opts the install into the steamdeck_stable branch too, so the
branch guard is what keeps a session from reinstalling; and on the publicbeta channel Deck mode
reports installed version 0 at every start and reinstalls the same client (rc=42, the launch URL
lost with it), while on steamdeck_publicbeta the second launch comes up with no restart at all.
2026-09-23 09:12:14 -04:00
The412Banner 35dbef0536 Deck mode made safe, a client-branch choice, and a battery the client can see
Deck mode passes -steamdeck alone: -steamos3 opted the install into the steamdeck_stable
branch and started the restart loop Bannerlator hit on device (38996ea1). The SteamOS helpers
the client calls in that mode - the two Armada found it needs under steamos-polkit-helpers and
the three under /usr/bin - are staged from the apk as no-op stubs. The client branch on disk is
kept in step with the one forced on the command line, and an update that cannot install stops
the session after three restarts instead of looping for ever.

The Steam cog gets a Client branch row: public beta (every session so far) or Steam Deck
public beta, the channel Armada bootstraps from.

The client reads /sys/class/power_supply/BAT<n>/; Android's supply is called battery and laid
out differently, so the Quick Access Menu had no battery. BatteryComponent writes BAT0 and BAT1
from Android's battery API every five seconds - status, percentage, charge, energy, power and
time to empty - into a directory bound over /sys/class/power_supply.
2026-09-23 09:11:54 -04:00
The412Banner 95cd642745 tonight's Bannerlator Linux fixes carried over: the client's GPU process gets its frames back, client-interface switches, Deck mode, a GPU gate before the download
- libpci: an empty file bound over /proc/bus/pci/devices, created at session start, so
  Chromium's GPU process stops dying on its way up and CEF stops falling back to SwiftShader
  (WinNative deff1ac6 via Bannerlator 8fb668d1: 44 -> 85 fps in the Big Picture library on a
  OnePlus 15; not measured here yet).
- Client interface, as toggles on the Performance page and lines in the device report:
  mesa_glthread, ZINK_DESCRIPTORS=lazy (now on by default) and MESA_NO_ERROR on; Steam Deck
  mode (-steamdeck -steamos3, the script builds the line) off.
- A non-Adreno device is told before the runtime download that a session would be sound over a
  black screen, and may still go ahead.

Not carried: Bannerlator's proot fixes live in its proot source, which this repo does not
build (the runtime tarball ships its own); its apk-proot -i guard is moot here (the apk carries
no proot); its session-log head keep is moot (Steam's logs are copied whole).
2026-09-22 20:12:54 -04:00
The412Banner b28e91128f The desktop uses the client's own game entries; a steam shim hands them to the app
The client already writes one menu entry per installed game (steam steam://rungameid/<id>, with
the game's icon); they were dead for want of a steam command, and r45 added a second entry per
game beside them. Now: steam on the desktop is a shim that hands off to bannerlator-steam-launch
(and is the client itself anywhere else), and bannerlator-desktop-games writes an entry only for
a game the client wrote none for.
2026-09-22 10:48:26 -04:00
The412Banner d0ca41d160 The client's games on the desktop, launching Steam's desktop UI under gamescope
bannerlator-desktop-games writes one menu entry per installed game (both libraries, the
client's own artwork) and links Steam Games / SD Games in the home folder. The entries, and the
menu's Steam / Big Picture ones, run bannerlator-steam-launch: the client cannot draw on the
desktop (labwc, no dma-buf), so it leaves a request in the session directory; the service
watches it (FileObserver), ends the desktop session and hands the activity a Steam session to
start - desktop UI (BL_STEAM_UI=desktop drops -gamepadui) with the game's rungameid URL.
2026-09-22 09:46:19 -04:00
The412Banner fa25451766 Game storage: a second Steam library on an SD card or a chosen folder
The runtime already knew how to register /mnt/bannerlator-sd with the client; the app never
bound anything there, so the client only ever saw internal storage. The Steam cog's Game storage
section offers every removable volume (through the app's own folder on it, the one place a card
lets a targetSdk-28 app write) and any folder from the File Manager, proven writable first. The
session binds the choice and names it (BL_LIBRARY_LABEL); bannerlator-steam-library registers it,
or forgets it when nothing is bound. The client does the rest: asks where to install, shows both
on Storage, moves games between them. device.txt records the choice.
2026-09-22 08:18:20 -04:00
The412Banner 9ad922348b Bannerlator's File Manager, a cog per launch mode with HDR10, leftover-process sweep, the drawer's Steam menu
The file picker is now Bannerlator's File Manager itself (files/FileManagerScreen.kt, carried over
whole with its rail, favourites, grid/list, copy/cut/paste, rename, delete, properties) minus what
has no meaning without a Wine container: run, add to shortcuts, C:/Z: drives, the archive
unpacker. StorageRoots, CollapsibleRail, FavoritesStore, PeIconExtractor, OutlinedAlertDialog and
MenuStyle come with it unchanged; FileOps carries the progress copy/move. A Files tile opens it;
its pick mode chooses the ROMs folder and imports drivers.

Play and Desktop each get a cog: resolution cap (1080p default, 900p, 720p, panel), shape, HDR10,
the mode's Linux runtime driver, the display driver, touch, and per mode the on-screen controls +
audio (Steam) or the renderer (desktop). The Graphics drivers and Audio tiles are gone into them.

HDR10: HdrSupport reads the panel's HDR types; the switch is greyed with the reason unless HDR10 is
listed. On, the activity feeds the compositor's gate (nativeSetHdrDisplay + nativeSetHdrRequest),
turns zero-copy on, sets BANNER_WAYLAND_HDR=1, and the session gets BL_HDR=1 (gamescope
--hdr-enabled) and DXVK_HDR=1.

OrphanReaper kills every process of our uid but the app at session start and on an app crash: a
tree left by a killed app held the rootfs, the GPU and Steam's lock, and the next session never
came up (Thor Pro report). The drawer gains Steam menu, which sends the Guide button.
2026-09-21 23:03:57 -04:00
The412Banner 3aa0162055 Answer for NetworkManager, so the client's network page works
The Steam client builds Settings > Internet and its connection indicator on
NetworkManager and looks for one on the system bus as it starts. This runtime
had neither, so the page stopped with "StartScanningForNetworks is not a
function" under a header that showed no connection while downloads ran. A user
on an Odin 2 reported exactly that, and I told him it was cosmetic and unfixed -
wrongly: Max wrote the answer for WinNative (e7a224ae) and Bannerlator has
carried his port for days. This app was the only one without it.

The session now starts a small system bus and his stand-in, which reports one
connection that is up while Android has a route out and refuses what it cannot
do, since nothing here can scan for or join a network. Both the script and the
bus config come from the apk at every launch, so an installed runtime gets this
without a re-host; dbus-daemon and python-gi are already in r9.

Named bannerlator-netmanager rather than steamdeck-: CI copies
overlay/usr/local/bin/bannerlator-* by glob, so anything else would have been
built, committed and never packaged - the same shape as the proot artifact that
was produced and discarded on every run for a week.

Version 0.1.3, and the README gains a section for it.
2026-09-21 21:35:51 -04:00
The412Banner aa047ce942 Logs: one folder per session, a device report, and credentials scrubbed
A session used to leave a loose session-<stamp>.log in Download/SteamDeck and
a compositor log in a different folder entirely, with Steam's own logs copied
beside the first one only if the session exited cleanly - which the sessions
worth reading never do. Reports arrived needing three questions answered
before anything could be read: what device, which drivers, which settings.

Now each session claims Download/SteamDeck/session-<stamp>/ and everything
lands in it: device.txt, session.log, wayland.log, steam.log plus steam/ in
Steam mode, desktop.log in desktop mode. The folder is claimed by whoever
starts first, since the activity starts the compositor before the service
starts the session, and the compositor is told where to write through its
environment - it opens that file once, so the service also copies it in at
teardown, which covers the second and later sessions of one process.

device.txt is written before the session starts, so a session that dies in its
first second still says what it ran on: model, SoC, Android, kernel, cores and
ceilings, RAM, the GPU as KGSL names it, the panel, the driver each half of the
session chose, the runtime version, every switch in effect, and whether Android
is set to kill the session's child processes.

Nothing identifying is collected - no serial, no device or advertising id, no
account name, no network names - and Steam's logs are scrubbed line by line on
the way in, with Bannerlator's patterns: session tokens (including the bare
numeric "Using JWT" form), machine-auth GUIDs, WebAPI keys, Guard codes,
emails, and SteamIDs masked to their last four digits so lines still correlate.
loginusers.vdf, config.vdf and the ssfn files are never copied.

Also from Max: a switch to run proot without its seccomp acceleration
(PROOT_NO_SECCOMP=1), for kernels that handle that filter badly - ENOSYS from
calls that plainly exist is the signature, which is what the Fold's storm looks
like; and the phantom-process warning above, which is his "your OS killed it".
2026-09-21 12:56:25 -04:00
The412Banner beab4e7849 Performance: the client and game core masks, from Bannerlator's Linux session
A Steam session runs two things that want different cores at the same time,
and one affinity cannot serve both (Bannerlator cfca3912).

The client is the case that prompted it: Steam pins its own interface renderer
to a subset of cores it chooses - five of eight on one device, leaving out both
little cores and the fastest one - reasonable while a game is running and wrong
when the client is all there is, where it shows as Big Picture feeling sluggish.
BL_CLIENT_CPUS overrides it, re-applied on a beat by the session script because
steamwebhelper spawns children continuously and each inherits Steam's choice.
That block is Bannerlator's, verbatim. One deliberate difference: the client's
mask is sent whenever the override is on, even when it names every core,
because undoing Steam's pin is the whole point and the scheduler's default is
exactly what that pin takes away.

A game gets BL_GAME_CPUS instead, consumed by the Proton wrappers that r27
already carries, and as in Bannerlator it is sent only when it is a real
restriction: a list naming every core is what the scheduler does unaided.

Both live behind a Performance dialog with a checkbox per core, labelled with
its ceiling, and apply at the next session start.
2026-09-21 10:49:34 -04:00
The412Banner f542e59a20 Audio: DirectAudio for games, and the microphone, from Bannerlator's Linux session
Two opt-ins on a new Audio screen, both ported from Bannerlator's gamescope
runtime where they are proven with voice in Steam's own tester.

DirectAudio replaces the audio driver inside the games the client launches -
Wine's mmdevapi driver, glibc build - with one that talks to a helper on the
Android side over a unix socket. The client keeps PulseAudio either way: it is
a native Linux program with no other way to make a sound. The helper runs here
because nothing inside the session can open Android's audio: a game is a glibc
process in a rootfs that binds no /system, and the uid the helper runs under is
what the recording permission is checked against.

The microphone is its own opt-in. The helper opens the input stream only when
asked and writes it to a pipe; PulseAudio's module-pipe-source turns that into
a source the client sees as DirectAudioMic. The daemon makes the pipe and the
helper waits for it - the two used to race, and the module fails on EEXIST.

The Proton wrappers gain Bannerlator's bl_directaudio, which adds the driver's
directory to WINEDLLPATH and names the driver in the prefix, and refuses on any
Proton that is not Wine 11 rather than pair a driver with an interface it was
not built against, which would be silence rather than an error. bl_game_cpus
comes along in the same splice and is inert until BL_GAME_CPUS is set.

The driver is staged into the runtime at every launch like the session scripts;
the helper ships as libdirectaudiorelay.so beside the PulseAudio daemon. Both
are the binaries Bannerlator carries, built by The412Banner/directaudio's relay
workflow (linux-wine11 build against ValveSoftware/wine proton_11.0).
2026-09-21 09:13:33 -04:00
The412Banner fe812081ec Restore Steam's overlay, and stop the app that takes the Steam login
Two deviations from a normal Steam launch, both removed rather than worked
around — Bannerlator's fix (334955ea), brought across unchanged.

The overlay was being stripped from every game because it landed in front of
open() and read() on /dev/input, letting Wine open the session's pad and then
answering every read of it with nothing. That was the wrong cure for an
ordering problem: glibc reads LD_PRELOAD before /etc/ld.so.preload, and the
interposer lives in the latter, so the overlay was simply ahead of it. Naming
the interposer first in LD_PRELOAD puts it back in front and the overlay loads
as Valve intends, in both wrappers — Valve's depot and an adopted GE-Proton or
proton-cachyos. Every difference between the launch Valve ships and what runs
here is a difference this runtime would otherwise have to account for.

Second, the competing Steam client is asked to stop rather than only named.
killBackgroundProcesses is a normal permission and ends exactly the case that
keeps recurring: GameHub declares boot receivers, so it is running from the
moment the phone starts without ever being opened, and it takes the login off
the client seconds after every sign-in. Done at Steam-session start only; the
desktop signs into nothing.

README: the GPU requirement now says which Adrenos Turnip actually drives. A
user's session log ended at "device (chip_id = 7010000, gpu_id = 710) is
unsupported" — an Adreno 710, which Mesa has no entry for.
2026-09-21 08:42:17 -04:00
The412Banner 539fd692ed Graphics drivers: choose and import the Linux runtime driver and the display driver
Ported from Bannerlator's driver selection so the standalone stops being pinned
to whatever Turnip the runtime image was built with (Mesa 26.2.2 today, while
Bannerlator already runs 26.3.0 in the same role).

Linux runtime driver: LinuxVulkanDriverManager imports a "-Linux" (glibc)
Turnip zip under files/linux_vulkan_drivers/<id>/ with a generated ICD manifest
whose library_path is absolute, validated by the libc the driver links against
(libc.so.6, never libc.so) and by its ELF header. The choice is per mode, so
Steam and the desktop can differ. SessionService hands the session BL_VK_DRIVER,
and the session script — staged from the apk at every launch, so no runtime
re-host — checks the manifest and its library from inside before exporting
VK_DRIVER_FILES; the runtime's own driver is what anything unreadable falls
back to. That block is Bannerlator's, verbatim.

Display driver: TurnipDriver now also imports AdrenoTools zips beside the two
bundled builds and honours a chosen id ahead of the GPU pick, with the same
refusals as Bannerlator's AdrenotoolsManager — a zip with no libraryName, a
Linux runtime driver, or a glibc library dressed as one is refused with the
list it belongs in, never installed as a black session.

One dialog on the main screen carries both lists; a removed import falls back
at once. Documented in the README.
2026-09-21 08:22:03 -04:00
The412Banner c18fe1a86e Desktop: turn Firefox's child-process sandboxes off
The screenshot shows the tab crashing while the chrome around it draws text
perfectly, and the 'no fonts' line is an annotation on that crash, logged by
the child. The parent reads the fonts; the child, sandboxed with seccomp and
namespaces that do not behave under proot, cannot, and Gecko takes a fatal
path with no usable face. The prefs for this are advisory and a profile can
override them, so the sandboxes are turned off in the environment the session
hands every program it starts.
2026-09-20 05:33:14 -04:00
The412Banner ce9cf2bdf3 Desktop: name a default font family, and rebuild fontconfig's cache once
Firefox's own network log shows it fully online - DNS answering for both
families, sockets connecting, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 sessions carrying data - so
the blank pages were never the network. They are the fonts: Gecko reports
'no fonts' with 13 families found, which is what it says when no generic
family resolves to a face. The linked rules map sans-serif onto faces a full
distribution installs; this rootfs has DejaVu and nothing else, so local.conf
names it outright for every generic, and the cache built into the image is
rebuilt once so the new rules are seen.
2026-09-20 05:24:21 -04:00
The412Banner 6c380528f3 Desktop: give fontconfig its default rules
/etc/fonts/conf.d in the rootfs holds only the README: none of fontconfig's
rules that map sans-serif, serif and monospace onto installed faces. Programs
find the fonts and no default font; Firefox logs 'no fonts' and draws pages
without text. The desktop launcher links the 33 default rules in when the
directory has none.
2026-09-20 05:00:24 -04:00
The412Banner 5417587ac4 Desktop: Firefox writes its network log in debug runs
The session reaches the internet over both families (r32's probe), so a
browser saying otherwise has to explain itself: with the debug marker set,
Firefox logs its name lookups, connects, HTTP transactions and link/offline
decisions to ~/.cache/steamdeck/firefox-net.log.
2026-09-20 04:59:35 -04:00
The412Banner 3d4cfededf Desktop: keep Firefox out of Work Offline, and probe the network in debug runs
Firefox decides whether it is online by dumping the routing table over
netlink, which Android denies to apps; it sees no default route, switches to
Work Offline and every page fails while the network is fine. A defaults file
staged into Firefox's pref directory turns that off, and drops the process
sandboxes that have nothing to set up under proot. Debug runs now log a name
lookup and a fetch over IPv4 and IPv6 from inside the session.
2026-09-20 04:51:50 -04:00
The412Banner 36b0bea470 Compositor: tell a nested toplevel the output's size
labwc's Wayland backend, configured with 0x0, opened wlroots' default
1280x720 window and the whole desktop was upscaled from it - the r29 and r30
logs both show the output at 1280x720 whatever rc.xml and wlr-randr asked.
The configure now carries the output's size; gamescope is told the same
numbers on its command line, so nothing changes for the Steam client.
2026-09-20 04:49:13 -04:00
The412Banner 8362f48750 Desktop: name the panel in panel.conf, size the nested output to the app's surface
The panel was there all along, a bare strip at the top: the first package's
panel.conf described a panel it never named in [General] panels=, so
lxqt-panel built itself a default one with no plugins. panel.conf now travels
with the app like the rest of the desktop's defaults, and the old nameless
file on a device is replaced once. The nested labwc output was 1280x720 -
wlroots' default window - with the desktop upscaled from that; rc.xml now
carries the app's surface size and the autostart sets it again via wlr-randr.
Debug runs keep each program's full output under ~/.cache/steamdeck/.
2026-09-20 04:40:23 -04:00
The412Banner f10919d4be Desktop: give pcmanfm-qt's desktop the wallpaper, and a debug marker that logs window mapping
The desktop came up black with the panel alive but unseen. pcmanfm-qt's
desktop surface, unconfigured, paints solid black over swaybg's wallpaper; it
now gets the wallpaper. With ~/.steamdeck-desktop-debug present, labwc logs at
debug level and the panel and file manager log their shell, layer and output
protocol traffic, capped, so where a window went can be read off the session
log.
2026-09-20 04:28:46 -04:00
The412Banner 07dadb13f3 Desktop: clear last session's single-instance state, run under a session bus, stage the launcher from the app
The desktop came up with a wallpaper and nothing on it the second time. The
runtime directory outlives a session, and lxqt-panel and pcmanfm-qt are
single-instance programs that leave a lock and a socket there; finding last
session's, they decided they were already running and exited without a word.
The launcher now clears everything but the compositor's own socket, runs labwc
under dbus-run-session so the panel's menus and the file manager have the bus
they expect, and logs what the panel and the file manager say. The launcher
and labwc's defaults are staged by the app over the desktop package's copies,
so a fix here no longer costs a 426 MB re-download.
2026-09-20 04:16:07 -04:00
The412Banner 2e3196788e Desktop: an lxqt session mode, the hosted-package catalog and the Desktop & apps screen
A second thing to launch beside Steam: the LXQt/labwc desktop, a hosted package
the app installs into the runtime like the runtime itself, with the emulators
and apps as further packages from the same catalog (desktop.json in
winlator-contents). A tar package extracts over the rootfs with the runtime's
own extractor; an AppImage lands in /opt/appimages with a .desktop entry and
runs extracted, since proot has no FUSE. The session script's lxqt mode runs
the desktop's labwc in place of gamescope.
2026-09-20 03:16:09 -04:00
The412Banner b74aa97996 Bring the runtime up to date with Bannerlator, and end a session the way proot can survive
From Bannerlator's feat/linux-gamescope-runtime since this repo was cut:

- Session teardown (4509d788): proot was SIGKILLed, which never lets its
  --kill-on-exit cleanup run; its tracees lived on with no tracer, every
  seccomp-trapped syscall failing with ENOSYS, spinning at a full core for over
  an hour. Now SIGTERM, a grace for proot's own cleanup, SIGKILL only if it
  will not go, then a sweep of the tree it had — snapshotted first, each pid
  checked against its start time.
- The Steam client's controller interposer is its own source
  (fakeinput_steam.cpp, 28922e7c), separate from the one preloaded into Wine.
- The seeder runs on a beat so a prefix the client creates mid-session is
  covered before its install scripts run (6ee86bff).
- GE-Proton and proton-cachyos as compatibility tools: the registrar
  bannerlator-proton-extra and the compat script's adopt_extras (03867656).
- space.c in the session shim: a library's own free space, not the phone's.

The env-vs-args ordering bug (98d38931) does not apply here: nothing is added
after the script name.
2026-09-20 00:55:37 -04:00
The412Banner 4022351e22 SteamDeck: a standalone launcher for the native ARM64 Linux Steam client
Lifts Bannerlator's Linux/gamescope runtime out into an app of its own: the
Wayland compositor, the proot session, the runtime installer, the fake-evdev
controller path and the PulseAudio server, with none of the Wine, container or
store machinery around them.

One activity installs the runtime from the same winlator-contents catalog and a
second one runs the session: compositor on a SurfaceView, gamescope and Valve's
native arm64 client under proot, a physical pad republished into the fake-input
rings, and the session's milestones on screen until the first frame arrives.
2026-09-19 13:39:17 -04:00