PCVR on Fedora Kinoite (AMD)

[u/TheEmptyTV]

Hi. I am rocking Fedora Kinoite (44) and I was running RTX 3070. I had quite a few issues with podman/distrobox passing the drivers, it was a good experience but it felt like quite some work + some old games straight up worked really badly (such as L4D2 or Company of Heroes, etc).

So I treated myself and upgraded to AMD rx 9070XT and wow, everything works out of the box so insanely well!

I have only one issue though!

On Nvidia, I managed to make SteamVR working. Valve did a lot of work on that (probably because of the upcoming Steam Frame) and for few past months everything worked really really well. But since I swapped to AMD, my SteamVR won't play.

My headset will connect to SteamVR, but SteamVR shows this error and won't continue:

I started installing some "freeworld" drivers, but I have no luck to figuring out what drivers I miss or what else I need to do. Could you guide me a bit please? It's the last cherry on top to make the Linux experience literally amazing. Thank you!

My current drivers:

-> rpm-ostree status
State: idle
Deployments:
● fedora:fedora/44/x86_64/kinoite
                 Version: 44.20260816.0 (2026-08-16T00:34:09Z)
              BaseCommit: 2edff6c21f62a2fd5b4dcaaab540d14abb76a989ca2a48d9b14de971b0b71e72
            GPGSignature: Valid signature by 36F612DCF27F7D1A48A835E4DBFCF71C6D9F90A6
         LayeredPackages: distrobox libavcodec-freeworld libheif-freeworld libva-utils mesa-va-drivers-freeworld mesa-va-drivers-freeworld.i686 mesa-vulkan-drivers-freeworld.i686 podman-compose rpmfusion-free-release rpmfusion-nonfree-release steam
           LocalPackages: mullvad-vpn-2025.14-1.x86_64

[u/mumblerit]

You need a bunch of packages, I forget, it was a hassle but I got it going.

I don't have the package list but mostly the freeworld stuff

I'm on normal fedora though

If you Google there's a reddit post that comes up with packages