SteamOS 3.7.0 Preview brings the 'beginnings of support for non-Steam Deck handhelds'

Valve have launched SteamOS 3.7.0 Preview, which they famous has the beginnings of help for non-Steam Deck handhelds! So we’re closing in on the previously announced Beta for more handhelds. Though this launch continues to be only for Steam Deck.

Since it is a Preview model you have to have your Steam Deck replace settings set to Preview in Settings > System > System Replace Channel.

One of many good surprises for this Preview launch is including the power for Bluetooth controllers to wake the LCD Steam Deck mannequin!

Here is the complete checklist of modifications:

Common

Up to date to a more recent Arch Linux base

Up to date the Linux kernel to six.11

Up to date the Mesa graphics driver base

Desktop mode now ships with Plasma 6.2.5

Beginnings of help for non-Steam Deck handhelds

Controllers and Enter

Add help for the Proteus Byowave controller

Mounted a difficulty the place Change Professional Controller gyros won’t work on first connection

Mounted a difficulty with caught/hanging controller inputs when exiting Steam

Bluetooth

Mounted Bluetooth units nonetheless with the ability to wake the Steam Deck from droop, even when Bluetooth was disabled from Desktop mode

Allow HFP/HSP profiles, to permit utilizing the built-in microphone from headsets and earbuds

At present solely obtainable to pick in Desktop mode

Added battery stage show for supported Bluetooth units

Embrace a bugfix for the Airpods when utilizing the AAC codec

Bluetooth controllers can now wake LCD models from sleep, beforehand solely obtainable on OLED fashions

Identified concern: Bluetooth LE primarily based controllers aren’t at the moment suitable with bluetooth wake on LCD fashions

Steam Deck Dock

Made compatibility enhancements for sure shows together with TCL FireTV fashions and Dell VRR succesful displays

Graphics and Efficiency

Enabled AMD P-State CPU frequency management

Mounted a efficiency regression for No Relaxation for the Depraved

Desktop

Up to date to Plasma 6.2.5 (beforehand 5.27.10) – see the large modifications in Plasma 6 here

Encompass sound now works appropriately

Enabling the setting is at the moment solely obtainable by way of Desktop mode

KDE Filelight is now put in by default for disk utilization visualization and low disk house notifications

Pace and robustness enhancements when switching between desktop and recreation mode

Mounted a standard explanation for hangs when switching to desktop mode

Mounted some instances the place Steam might take as much as ninety seconds to exit on shutdown or swap to desktop

Added ‘gocryptfs’ help to desktop session to allow use of the Plasma Vaults function

Misc

Mounted some instances the place “filter-chain” or different digital sound units would erroneously seem within the UI

Mounted instances the place making use of system updates might fail if sure configuration recordsdata had been corrupted or malformed

Numerous enhancements to System Report performance for help and troubleshooting

Mounted compatibility concern with sure DNS servers inflicting very sluggish area lookups

Improved responsiveness of system when operating into out-of-memory crash conditions

Enabled IPv6 Privateness Extensions by default

Identified Points

Inventive Zen Air Professional earbuds show an sudden all-zeros entry underneath the “Present all units” part when pairing

Tremendous NES controllers can erroneously present up as related when they aren’t

DualShock 3 controllers are at the moment not capable of be paired or used

Developer

Up to date to a 6.11 primarily based kernel

Added debuginfod URLs for SteamOS

Added systemd .socket models to the default checklist of /and so on recordsdata preserved throughout updates

When operating in a VM, system will now default to the desktop session

Swap file setup now makes use of customary ‘mkswap’ performance as a substitute of transport an ad-hoc ‘mkswapfile’ script

The steamos-readonly command now warns that the standing won’t be correct when sysexts are loaded

Mounted a case that might introduce duplicate boot entries for units manually setup to dual-boot

The pacman cache is now cleaned after making use of a SteamOS replace

Fixes stale cache errors working with pacman after switching branches