GNU/Linux plans?

starlightknight said:

Personally I'd be happy even if there was just enough support initially to run an OpenVR game, even if Oculus home couldn't come over in its entirety until later on (if that requires much more porting resources / time / qa). Some bare minimum support for advanced users would be better than nothing.

Exactly. I primarily use my CV1 for WebVR, which doesn't need a gui / nonsense. Ditching windows would be ideal.

Yes, give us the basic runtime and call it experimental and whatever else you need to do. Hire a linux guy or two with your facebook money and do us all a huge favor. You can leave the store part for later! This is not a huge investment. There are other applications besides gaming that would really benefit from linux support which I think you might be ignoring.

Hi there... 

I'm new here, but I'm a Linux guy as well interested in VR on linux. I got an old DK1 which I was able to run on Arch Linux about 6 months ago using an old sdk (not sure if it was 0.3 or 0.4) 

Although arch aur has a couple of oculus linux sdk packages, none of then is able to detect the DK1 today (booth are sdk 0.5, the official latest linux one)

Since Oculus removed the links to download old SDK's, I was wondering if anyone here known how I can download the old ones, maybe just 0.3.x and 0.4.3!

I was able to find the 0.4.4 on some git depots around the net, but not even the 0.4.4 is working! 

The second problem I'm having is that, not sure why, but nvidia seems to report the DK1 as disconnected! 

As far as I remember, before it would show up as a monitor, so I could extend the desktop. 

but today, xrandr reports it as disconnected:

I was able to get some more info using nvidia-xconfig --query-gpu-info, and it shows the DK1 as connected: 

LOL... OK... turns out that, moments after asked you guys for help, I've managed to figure it out! LOL

Turns out that, the latest NVIDIA drivers for linux added an  "AllowHMD"  option, which is turned to "No" by default. 

This makes the nvidia driver treat any HMD connected device as DISCONNECTED! (thanks nvidia!)

By adding:

 Option "AllowHMD" "yes"

to the screen section of my xorg.conf, my DK1 "came back to life" and it's showing the desktop wallpaper now, correctly! 
Now the latest Linux SDK 0.5 recognizes it without problems! 

to make things easier, one can use the nvidia-xconfig command to create a new xorg.conf file with the AllowHMD option, by running:

sudo nvidia-xconfig --allow-hmd=yes

This command creates the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file correctly, with the AllowHMD option as yes, and the DK1 should work without problems! 

I've found this by accident, by examining the extended help for nvidia-xconfig (nvidia-xconfig -A) and it was there, the last option: 

and voila'... DK1 working correctly in the latest Arch Linux with latest Nvidia driver and latest linux Oculus SDK 0.5 (the one from Arch linux AUR depot), as of Nov/2017! 

although I've fixed myself, thanks for being here guys!!  :smile:
And I hope people having the same problem in the future will find this info here! 

cheers...
-Hradec

I'm also still waiting for the Linux support enthusiastically. But I am really happy that you've taken the time and focus to make excellent quality headset and controllers. The recent software updates have been great and needed as well.

@imperativity and @cybereality keep up the good work!

imperativity said:

@cheery

But I am really happy that you've taken the time and focus to make
excellent quality headset and controllers. The recent software updates
have been great and needed as well.

Thanks for this! We are certainly focusing most of our efforts on this front currently. Just know that within the company there are those that champion for Linux support. It's just a question of timing and resources.

Considering the public pronoucement of making it a solid experience for Windows has come to pass (I know I've interacted with the system at Best Buy and bemoaned that the thing doesn't work on Linux...) I'm curious as to what timing and resources are involved that would preclude this considering your parent company...

(Not trying to seem ugly, but trying to understand since there's a rather divergent set of conflicting information going on there...)

Hm...  Some explanation, perhaps...?   I doubt that Foundry went to the trouble of RE-ing your protocols, etc. on the HMD there, guys... 

https://support.foundry.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000047030-Q100267-Using-the-Oculus-Rift-CV1-headset-with-CaraVR-on-Linux-

Did you provide support or at least technical details under NDA?  If so...there ARE some that would be "okay" with that sort of thing, mind.

I found out how they're doing it.  OpenHMD.  Guys...this is quite literally a hang your head in shame moment.