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Thank you in advance for your time, this is my first time using Linux as a desktop operating system, and I am not very experienced (hopefully I will be soon).

 I have tried to install Steam onto PlayOnLinux and when I go to launch Counter-Strike: Global Offensive or DotA2 my steam friend icon (bottom right) will turn green like I am starting up a game, it will stay green for a moment and then it will turn blue as if I had never tried to launch it.

 I am running Debian (not sure which version, I installed from the net install) with an Nvidia 560 Ti and an Intel 2500k. Any other information that you need I will do my best to find for you.

EDIT:
I opened PlayOnLinux in a terminal and loaded up steam. When I click play on Counter-Strike I get the following error:

Failed to create D3D9!
System (VMaterialSystem080) failed during stage CONNECTION

Edited by Tethyrian

Any help? I just want somewhere to start, maybe some reading on this I can do to help gather some more pertinent information.

Gotta be patient. Lol. Sometimes we can't answer right away.

You may have to start it with optimus. That error means that it cannot use d3d because of no hardware acceleration. Can you run playonlinux from the terminal and post the output?

ian@IanDesktop-PC:~$ playonlinux
[install_plugins] Message: Checking plugin: Offline PlayOnLinux...
[install_plugins] Message: Checking plugin: Transgaming Cedega...
[install_plugins] Message: Checking plugin: WineImport...
[install_plugins] Message: Checking plugin: Wine Look...
[install_plugins] Message: Checking plugin: ScreenCap...
[install_plugins] Message: Checking plugin: PlayOnLinux Vault...
[main] Message: Filesystem is compatible
[maj_check] Message: Web version : 1369426149
[maj_check] Message: Current local version : 1369372544
[maj_check] Message: Updating list
[POL_System_CheckFS] Message: Checking filesystem for Steam.exe
[POL_Wine_SetVersionEnv] Message: Setting wine version path: 1.5.25, x86
[POL_Wine_SetVersionEnv] Message: "/home/ian/.PlayOnLinux//wine/linux-x86/1.5.25" exists
[POL_Wine] Message: Running wine-1.5.25 Steam.exe
[POL_Wine] Message: Notice: PlayOnLinux deliberately disables winemenubuilder. See http://www.playonmac.com/fr/page-26-Winemenubuilder.html
[POL_System_CheckFS] Message: Checking filesystem for Steam.exe
[POL_Wine_SetVersionEnv] Message: Setting wine version path: 1.5.25, x86
[POL_Wine_SetVersionEnv] Message: "/home/ian/.PlayOnLinux//wine/linux-x86/1.5.25" exists
[POL_Wine] Message: Running wine-1.5.25 Steam.exe
[POL_Wine] Message: Notice: PlayOnLinux deliberately disables winemenubuilder. See http://www.playonmac.com/fr/page-26-Winemenubuilder.html
Looks like steam didn't shutdown cleanly, scheduling immediate update check
[POL_Wine] Message: Wine return: 255
Failed to create D3D9!
System (VMaterialSystem080) failed during stage CONNECTION


Everything worked perfectly up until I tried to launch a game.

There is a way to run this with optimus, which from what I understand, tells the program to use the Nvidia card, and not the onboard video chipset.

I dont have much experience with Steam outside of native games.

Not sure how to do that, maybe someone will come along and send me in the right direction :D

Edit:

Edited by RoninDusette

And this:

http://cjenkins.wordpress.com/2013/01/01/steam-for-linux-on-optimus-enabled-computer-running-ubuntu-12-04-64bits/

ian@IanDesktop-PC:~$ primusrun glxspheres
2013/05/26 12:40:11 socat[16675] E connect(3, AF=1 "/var/run/bumblebee.socket", 27): No such file or directory
primus: fatal: failed to connect to Bumblebee daemon: No such file or directory


I really wish I could be more competent on the subject, must be a pain helping someone that has such limited knowledge ;/

You need to have Bumblebee installed to do that. Its in that second link I sent.

ian@IanDesktop-PC:~$ sudo apt-get install bumbblebee
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package bumbblebee
ian@IanDesktop-PC:~$ sudo apt-get install bumblebee
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
bumblebee is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
aisleriot argyll baobab browser-plugin-gnash ca-certificates-java caribou
caribou-antler cheese dconf-tools default-jre default-jre-headless empathy
empathy-common espeak-data file-roller finger fonts-cantarell fonts-lyx
fonts-opensymbol fonts-sil-gentium fonts-sil-gentium-basic gcalctool gdebi
gdm3 gedit gedit-common gedit-plugins gir1.2-atspi-2.0 gir1.2-gdata-0.0
gir1.2-gnomekeyring-1.0 gir1.2-goa-1.0 gir1.2-gtop-2.0 gir1.2-gucharmap-2.90
gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-3.0 gir1.2-rb-3.0 gir1.2-tracker-0.14
gir1.2-webkit-3.0 gir1.2-wnck-3.0 glchess glines gnash gnash-common gnect
gnibbles gnobots2 gnome-backgrounds gnome-calculator gnome-color-manager
gnome-dictionary gnome-disk-utility gnome-documents gnome-font-viewer
gnome-games gnome-games-data gnome-games-extra-data gnome-icon-theme-extras
gnome-nettool gnome-orca gnome-packagekit gnome-packagekit-data
gnome-screenshot gnome-shell-extensions gnome-sudoku gnome-system-log
gnome-tweak-tool gnome-video-effects gnomine gnotravex gnotski gnuchess
gnuchess-book gnustep-base-common gnustep-base-runtime gnustep-common
grilo-plugins-0.1 gstreamer1.0-libav gstreamer1.0-plugins-base
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly gstreamer1.0-x gtali
gtk2-engines gucharmap guile-2.0-libs hamster-applet iagno
icedtea-6-jre-cacao icedtea-6-jre-jamvm icedtea-netx icedtea-netx-common
inkscape iputils-tracepath java-common libatk-adaptor libatk-wrapper-java
libatk-wrapper-java-jni libaudit0 libavahi-gobject0 libavahi-ui-gtk3-0
libboost-date-time1.49.0 libboost-date-time1.53.0
libboost-program-options1.49.0 libboost-thread1.49.0 libbrlapi0.6
libcaribou-gtk-module libcaribou-gtk3-module libcdr-0.0-0 libcmis-0.3-3
libcolamd2.7.1 libdee-1.0-4 libdiscid0 libdmapsharing-3.0-2 libdotconf1.0
libelf1 libespeak1 libexttextcat-2.0-0 libexttextcat-data libgail-common
libgdict-1.0-6 libgdict-common libgdu-gtk0 libgee-0.8-2 libgeocode-glib0
libgexiv2-2 libgnustep-base1.22 libgpod-common libgpod4 libgraphite2-3
libgrilo-0.1-0 libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 libgstreamer1.0-0
libgtk-vnc-2.0-0 libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a libgupnp-av-1.0-2 libgupnp-dlna-2.0-3
libgvnc-1.0-0 libhsqldb1.8.0-java libhyphen0 libicc2 libimdi0
liblangtag-common liblangtag1 liblinear-tools liblinear1 liblouis-data
liblouis2 libmagick++5 libminiupnpc5 libmspub-0.0-0 libmtdev1
libmythes-1.2-0 libnatpmp1 libobjc4 liborcus-0.4-0 libplot2c2
libpstoedit0c2a libraw5 libreoffice libreoffice-base libreoffice-base-core
libreoffice-calc libreoffice-common libreoffice-core libreoffice-draw
libreoffice-filter-mobiledev libreoffice-gnome libreoffice-gtk
libreoffice-impress libreoffice-java-common libreoffice-math
libreoffice-report-builder-bin libreoffice-style-galaxy
libreoffice-style-tango libreoffice-writer librhythmbox-core6
librygel-core-2.0-1 librygel-renderer-2.0-1 librygel-renderer-gst-2.0-1
librygel-server-2.0-1 libsofia-sip-ua-glib3 libsofia-sip-ua0 libsonic0
libspeechd2 libsvm-tools libtelepathy-farstream2 libunique-3.0-0
libvisio-0.0-0 libwebrtc-audio-processing-0 libwnck-common libwnck22
libwpd-0.9-9 libwpg-0.2-2 libwps-0.2-2 libxfont1 libxss1 libzip2 lightsoff
lp-solve mahjongg media-player-info minissdpd mobile-broadband-provider-info
nautilus-sendto-empathy network-manager-gnome nmap openjdk-6-jre
openjdk-6-jre-headless openjdk-6-jre-lib p7zip-full perlmagick pstoedit
pulseaudio-utils python-brlapi python-gconf python-gnome2 python-louis
python-mako python-markupsafe python-pyatspi python-pyatspi2 python-pyorbit
python-speechd python-uno python-wnck python-zeitgeist quadrapassel rdesktop
rhythmbox rhythmbox-data rhythmbox-plugin-cdrecorder rhythmbox-plugins rtkit
rygel rygel-playbin rygel-preferences rygel-tracker seahorse shotwell
shotwell-common simple-scan sound-juicer sound-theme-freedesktop
speech-dispatcher swell-foop telepathy-gabble telepathy-idle
telepathy-logger telepathy-rakia telepathy-salut transmission-common
transmission-gtk tzdata-java unar uno-libs3 unoconv ure vinagre vino xbrlapi
xdg-user-dirs-gtk xfonts-base xfonts-encodings xfonts-mathml xfonts-utils
xserver-common xserver-xephyr xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core
xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-mouse
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse
xserver-xorg-input-wacom xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark
xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-chips xserver-xorg-video-cirrus
xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-i128 xserver-xorg-video-mach64
xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau xserver-xorg-video-r128 xserver-xorg-video-radeon
xserver-xorg-video-rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3
xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-savage
xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sis
xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx xserver-xorg-video-trident
xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vmware
xserver-xorg-video-voodoo xul-ext-adblock-plus xulrunner-10.0 zeitgeist-core
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 465 not upgraded.

Says I have it installed, why is it telling me those packages can be removed, I don't feel like I should trust that at all.

Dont remove them. They are needed. I just ignore that and it goes away after a while. I believe it judges that on the last time its been accessed, and if its been a while, it says that they arent being used. Again, dont remove them. lol

Installed Debian packages can either be marked as "installed manually" (you explicitly asked for them), or just installed because they're a direct or indirect dependency of one of the formers.
If a "manually installed" package is removed for whatever reason (it conflicted with an upgrade for example), the packaging system may find many non manually installed packages that don't look required anymore. Feel free to use critical thinking, though, maybe what you need is to manually reinstall the package that was removed, or mark the packages you know you need as manually installed (apt-get install on an already installed package will do that). Because as long as you do neither apt-get will keep suggesting to autoremove them (it's most probably been that way on your box for a while, trying to reinstall the already installed bumblebee is definitely not the cause of this).

Dont remove them. They are needed. I just ignore that and it goes away after a while. I believe it judges that on the last time its been accessed, and if its been a while, it says that they arent being used. Again, dont remove them. lol

All right, that helps a bit, but I still can't get bumblebee working, I did a little bit of reading and I'm going to try to reinstall it maybe.

Follow this:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bumblebee

That should get it set up correctly for you.

Bumblebee will enable you to use optirun, but I think you need to get Primus for Bumblebee, as well. That should be covered in the links I sent. Try them again and let us know if they work. :)

ian@IanDesktop-PC:/etc/init.d$ ./bumblebeed start
ian@IanDesktop-PC:/etc/init.d$ primusrun glxspheres
2013/05/28 16:24:15 socat[4254] E connect(3, AF=1 "/var/run/bumblebee.socket", 27): No such file or directory
primus: fatal: failed to connect to Bumblebee daemon: No such file or directory
ian@IanDesktop-PC:/etc/init.d$ optirun glxspheres
[  214.887078] [ERROR]The Bumblebee daemon has not been started yet or the socket path /var/run/bumblebee.socket was incorrect.
[  214.887128] [ERROR]Could not connect to bumblebee daemon - is it running?


I can't seem to get it working, I followed that step for step...

EDIT
ian@IanDesktop-PC:/var/run$ sudo service bumblebeed restart
[FAIL] Restarting bumblebeed: bumblebeed failed!

Edited by Tethyrian

try


sudo service bumblebeed start

And see if it will let you run it then. Its just saying that Bumblebee is not running.

You also should be running that first command as sudo, if I am not mistaken. Thats a system service, and cannot be started by users in the "users" group. sudo should make that command work.

If you want to see what services are running, you can always check:


ps -A

for a list of all running procs.

Still says its not running after trying sudo service bumblebeed start and sudo service bumblebeed restart note that it returns failed when trying to restart.

hmmmmmm. Im at a loss. Im not sure why it would do that. I dont have one to test with, either. :/ Ill see what I can find.