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Has anyone managed to use their Steam Frame with an external monitor? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by python@lemmy.world to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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This is stupid and not really a use case since I guess I could technically hook into the Steam Frame's desktop mode via some sort of Steam Link shenanigans if I really wanted to, but since the steam frame's selling point was "This is a standalone Linux machine!" I kinda want to see if I could actually use it as a standalone Linux machine.

I tried the naive approach of just plugging it into a monitor via HDMI to USB-C dongle, but the monitor did not show up or react in any way. There isn't even a "Displays" setting in the KDE Settings menu at all :o
I found some random thread about the Steam Deck that said external monitors are disabled unless you set your device to "Boot into desktop mode" so I tried that and it still didn't work.

My second attempt was trying to get Displaylink Drivers installed because those are needed for the Docking station I have (StarTech DK31C4DPPDUE). Disabled Read-Only Mode, failed to install paru due to some sort of rustc incompatibility, then managed to install pikaur (whatever that is) and through that the displaylink and evdi-dkms package.

The Guide on the Arch Wiki says to configure DKMS but I just couldn't figure out how to do that. So the displaylink service kept failing to start due to some sort of kernel error, as expected.

Honestly, I'm kinda stupid so I'm all out of ideas on how to get this running. I'm also probably too annoyed from today to interact with my Frame for at least a week.

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Ugh, I spent like an hour trying to figure out how to click Ctrl on the frame keyboard because I borked my pacman.conf file but couldn't save changes that would fix it because I couldn't press Ctrl and the only Virtual Keyboard available via Discover just didn't work and the only other solution I found online was to install a different virtual keyboard via pacman but my pacman didn't work because I borked the .conf file... I relented and plugged a physical keyboard into the frame.

Has anyone had any more luck? ~~Please also tell me about other stupid things to do with the Frame.~~

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