Subj : Re: SDL Video Initializat
To   : disloops
From : paulie420
Date : Fri Aug 06 2021 03:54:00

 di> > > After installing SyncTerm on an AWS EC2 instance running Amazon Linux 
 di> > > which is based on RHEL, I get this message: 
 di> > > 
 di> > > SDL Video Initialization Failed 
 di> > > 
 di> > > $ sudo yum install gcc 
 di> > > $ sudo yum install patch 
 di> > > $ sudo yum install ncurses-devel 
 di> > > $ sudo yum install SDL2-devel 
 di> > > 
 di> > Try setting the SDL_VIDEODRIVER environment variable to the value of dum
 di> > (e.g. EXPORT SDL_VIDEODRIVER=dummy). 
 di> > 
 di> I am seeing the same error message. Here is the scenario:
 di> $ export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=dummy
 di> $ printenv SDL_VIDEODRIVER
 di> dummy
 di> $ syncterm
 di> [...program starts and I exit with ESC...]
 di> SDL Video Initialization Failed
 di> > 
 di> So syncterm starts normally but when I return to the console after
 di> exiting, I see the error message. This EC2 instance has no "/dev/dri"
 di> directory, does that have something to do with the problem?
 di> @disloops

Wasn't the SDL needed SDL1 & SDL1-dev?? I could be wrong, but I think thats what get her rocking for me on some ubuntu flavor..



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