Updated my dock to the latest firmware today. It worked fine until I restarted my deck to try and resolve some game streaming issues. After restarting the deck, the dock no longer works. When it is first connected to power, the ethernet lights strobe then go dark. Ethernet isn’t being detected by the deck and neither is the HDMI connection, but it still passes power on to the deck. Anyone else have any issues with this after the latest update?
Yes. Every reboot seems like a lottery. Hdmi, hdmi audio or USB connected peripherals might not work.
If something is missing, disconnecting dock power and deck connection for a moment and you’ll get a reroll and everything might work.
PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’ve seen other reports of dock issues on 3.5.5. I myself have audio issues that I can’t resolve outside of using the desktop mode and manually selecting the audio output I need (I have to stay in desktop mode for it to keep working).
Sigh. I had previously taken my Deck on the road a few weeks back for the first time, and I ran into unrecoverable issues then that kept me from using it until I could get back to a computer and USB drive. Right after I reinstalled the OS, I ran into yet another bug in the UEFI firmware - do NOT choose to restore defaults on firmware 118 or you’ll lose audio and touch. The only way to recover from that was to downgrade the firmware and then upgrade again.
I genuinely love the Steam Deck, but the number of hard-to-resolve bugs lately has been HIGH.
If you still can roll back to the previous OS version, that should fix it for now. Hold down the [***] button during boot up and select the previous version.
rotopenguin@infosec.pub 11 months ago
Ooh, that’s the first time I’ve heard about the … shortcut.
(You can nuke home from there?? Yikes that’s a little too easy to get at)
PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s because there’s an A/B partition setup to the OS, and you’re just selecting the other one that you didn’t just upgrade.
rotopenguin@infosec.pub 11 months ago
One workaround for your problem might be to add a shortcut to Steam*, and run that in Game Mode.
something like “pactl set-default-sink 138” should do the trick. The device name can be found in “pactl list | grep -C RUNNING”. I hope the ID is stable, if not you’ll have to use the alsa_output.pci-blah-blah__sink name.
*easiest done by “add non steam game”, check off something, okay add it, find “the something” in your games list, and change its properties.
PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I appreciate that. I will give that a shot tonight. I was too frustrated with it yesterday to start digging for a workaround after I spent the earlier part of the day upgrading my NAS to OpenMediaVault 6 (from OMV5). I spend most of my week working on computer stuff, and I just want my “consolized” PC to work - especially when the OS is supposed to be stable.