Subj : Re: SDL Video Initialization Failed
To   : alt.bbs.synchronet
From : disloops
Date : Thu Aug 05 2021 22:51:36

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

On Friday, August 6, 2021 at 1:17:59 AM UTC-4, Digital Man wrote:
> To: disloops 
> 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). 
> -- 
> digital man 
> 
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I am seeing the same error message. Here is the scenario:
$ export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=dummy
$ printenv SDL_VIDEODRIVER
dummy
$ syncterm
[...program starts and I exit with ESC...]
SDL Video Initialization Failed
$ printenv SDL_VIDEODRIVER
dummy
So syncterm starts normally but when I return to the console after exiting, I see the error message. This EC2 instance has no "/dev/dri" directory, does that have something to do with the problem?
@disloops
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