SDL error
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 4:30 am
Hi
My graphics card died over the weekend, and my PC also decided to die at the same time. I have rebuilt it, but I am using a different graphics card... I am using Mandriva 2010.
So I get an SDL error when launching t4 and STDout has this:
Any assistance gratefully appreciated!
My graphics card died over the weekend, and my PC also decided to die at the same time. I have rebuilt it, but I am using a different graphics card... I am using Mandriva 2010.
So I get an SDL error when launching t4 and STDout has this:
So googling this I get the following:cannot initialize SDL: No available video device
Done all of the above, I suspect I need to change some config file somewhere but have no idea where! I have not done the X11 recompile, since it was working before!SDL doesn't use the X11 video driver if it can't open the X display, and if no other drivers are available, it will report this error.
To fix this, set your display environment variable appropriately:
sh: DISPLAY=:0 ; export DISPLAY
If you still have problems, try running xhost + localhost
Finally, if all those didn't work, and you built SDL from source, make sure that you have the X11 development libraries installed, otherwise you'll get a version of SDL that doesn't include X11 display support. After you install the X development libraries, you need to "make clean" and then rerun the configure and build process.
Any assistance gratefully appreciated!