Talk:Virtual reality

Steam VR requires sudo priviliges to finish setup

After installing and SteamVR on default Steam Library at $HOME Steam tries to run setcap command bellow. Running steam in commandline I get systemctl a prompt for password but it fails and Steam VR shows dialogue window with failure and to check /tmp/SteamVRLauncherSetup.log where there is just: "Error: setcap of vrcompositor-launcher failed."

Running command seperately fixes this.

sudo setcap CAP_SYS_NICE=eip ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamVR/bin/linux64/vrcompositor-launcher

More about CAP_SYS_NICE in https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/capabilities.7.html. I am not sure about the "=eip" though.

Pulec (talk) 14:36, 29 November 2022 (UTC)