Subj : SDL Video Initialization Failed
To   : disloops
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Aug 05 2021 22:17:52

  Re: SDL Video Initialization Failed
  By: disloops to alt.bbs.synchronet on Thu Aug 05 2021 08:19 pm

 > From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet
 >
 > Hello all,
 >
 > After installing SyncTerm on an AWS EC2 instance running Amazon Linux 2,
 > which is based on RHEL, I get this message:
 >
 > SDL Video Initialization Failed
 >
 > The installation succeeded and I believe I have the correct dependencies:
 >
 > $ sudo yum install gcc
 > $ sudo yum install patch
 > $ sudo yum install ncurses-devel
 > $ sudo yum install SDL2-devel
 >
 > Do I also need to install a video card driver or something? I do not know a
 > ton about this but I get the feeling that my EC2 instance - Amazon's version
 > of a ephemeral virtual machine - lacks some component or driver associated
 > with SDL2..?

Try setting the SDL_VIDEODRIVER environment variable to the value of dummy (e.g. EXPORT SDL_VIDEODRIVER=dummy).
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