Headset stays black

[LuNeder]

Description

After ALVR is started and connects, the headset screen turns black and stays like that. All tracking still works (if I open that steamvr window that lets you see the vr stuff I can see that everything works), but nothing is shown at the headset.

ALVR logs don't say anything interesting, dmesg also shows no errors

General Troubleshooting

• [x] I carefully followed the instructions in the README and successfully completed the setup wizard
• [x] I read the ALVR Wikis here and here

Environment

Hardware

Note: for Linux, an upload to the hw-probe database is preferred: hw-probe -all -upload

https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=2db4f35401

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

GPU Driver Version: NVidia proprietary 550.54.14 (latest as of now)

Audio: pipewire

Installation

ALVR Version: v21.0.0-dev00+nightly.2024.03.05

ALVR Settings File: session.json

SteamVR Version: beta 2.4.2 (1709662163)

Install Type: appimage

OS Name and Version (winver on Windows or grep PRETTY_NAME /etc/os-release on most Linux distributions): openSUSE Tumbleweed (latest update as of now)

[SunnyOd]

Exactly same issue here. Using 3090, on nobara with latest kernel and nvidia 550 driver, ALVE v206.1 AppImage and quest 3. Using the latest steamvr beta I'm getting the same exact issue

[Wyfi0]

Same issue here on Arch linux, https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=6f76b5bd1c, with ALVR v20.6.1 on both my Quest 2 and Appimage on pc. Also I am using steamvr beta 2.4.3. I can run steamvr and see my controllers through the vr view and even start games, but nothing in the headset. I reinstalled ALVR on the Quest after deleting it and still have the issue.

Thanks!

[Veitaserum4]

Same issue on mint, using latest ALVR (v20.6.1) on quest 2, using appimage on pc, tried beta steamvr and non beta, displaying vr view on the computer works fine but black screen in the headset. I also reinstalled multiple times, both nightly and normal, nothing worked. https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=f59b841fe1

[m2neral]

Try killing your compositor. That fixes the black display issue for me (picom in my case).

[Wyfi0]

Try killing your compositor. That fixes the black display issue for me (picom in my case).

Sorry, I don't understand. I'm using kde-plasma on wayland and killing kwin_wayland closes all my apps. Could you explain?

[Veitaserum4]

Try killing your compositor. That fixes the black display issue for me (picom in my case).

Killing "vrcompositor.re" (which is the only process called compositor, so i think that's what you're talking about) just crashes steamvr

[Wyfi0]

I believe they are talking about the display compositor (picom in their case and kwin_wayland for me). Either way it still doesn't work.

[LuNeder]

Try killing your compositor. That fixes the black display issue for me (picom in my case).

I’ll try killing Compiz next time to see if it works, but then again it isn’t really a solution since stuff gets bugged af with no compositor xD

[Veitaserum4]

I see, well i looked it up for the past 30 minutes and i dont think you can even kill the compositor on mint, and LuNeder is right, things would get buggy, so not an optimal solution

[Wyfi0]

I've got it working on ALVR v20.7.0. I updated both server and client and it worked!

[Furdox]

Getting the same issue even after updating and killing picom

[m2neral]

Try killing your compositor. That fixes the black display issue for me (picom in my case).

This doesn't work for me anymore either btw.

[toxicfox2491]

this seems to be an issue for me within the current version, beta and previous. I managed to get it running again by downgrading the steamVR version to 1.27.5, it also works with oculus_win7and8 1.15.12 most VR games dont work on these tho

[The-personified-devil]

Reference solution: https://github.com/alvr-org/ALVR/wiki/Linux-Troubleshooting

[LuNeder]

Reference solution: Wiki: Linux Troubleshooting ()

Can confirm this works. Completely forgot about closing this issue, sorry