Steam Deck LCD buttons stop working after a minute or 2
Like the title says, all Steam Deck buttons stop working after around a minute, including the power button, though the touchscreen works. Is this possibly a bug with the gnome version of the Steam Deck bazzite? or a bug lower down in the stack?
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On more experimenting, after all the buttons go non-functional, not even a USB keyboard/mouse can be used, meaning that can't be used for a keyboard (the onscreen keyboard can't be pulled up because, again, the buttons are unusable at that point and the button combo relies on them, the only thing still functional is the touchscreen)
to bring functionality back, a hard reset is needed, I can't seem to find bazzite isos from February to test if it's the same bug affecting ROG Ally users
rpm-ostree status -v?
currently not happening on my end both on main & testing, also steam deck lcd (512) & gnome. but i have had dpad & abxy buttons stop working randomly upon boot into gaming mode on very rare occasions, however steam button still works. never happens on the desktop mode at all.
managed to get it working just now after a lot of fighting to get the keyboard recognised and the OS downgraded to 20250216, seems to be working now.
what's weird is, for some reason, the face buttons are detected at times as a very random set of keys on the newer builds if they're detected at all after a minute or so in desktop mode
is it a constant behavior? also, is it happening on testing too on your end?
and im guessing youre on steam client stable?
on newer builds it's consistent in that it'll happen quickly after boot, takes a minute or so, but the 20250216 seems to have things working decently
And yes, stable as this is a fresh install
might be related to this bug: https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/issues/2406
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huh interesting. i wonder what is the differential here then, since we should be running the same images but you're running into these issues
and to be clear this happens on gaming & desktop mode?
correct
Looks like a steam bug
Because the controller tester works
Not much we can do for steam
Think it'd be worth reporting upstream?
Even if I'm not able to reliably get logs on current builds
I don't even know where you would report it
I think Steam's bug tracker on GitHub might be a decent place to start