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..?
To: disloopsI am seeing the same error message. Here is the scenario:
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 aTry setting the SDL_VIDEODRIVER environment variable to the value of dummy (e.g. EXPORT SDL_VIDEODRIVER=dummy).
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..?
--
digital man
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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 versionTry setting the SDL_VIDEODRIVER environment variable to the value of dummy (e.g. EXPORT SDL_VIDEODRIVER=dummy).
of a ephemeral virtual machine - lacks some component or driver associated with SDL2..?
--
digital man
Breaking Bad quote #21:I am seeing the same error message. Here is the scenario:
You? No. The only shooting you do is into a Kleenex. - Hank
Norco, CA WX: 72.6¨F, 66.0% humidity, 0 mph SE wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs --- Synchronet 3.19a-Win32 NewsLink 1.113
* Vertrauen - Riverside County, California - telnet://vert.synchro.net
$ 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?
To: disloopsOkay thanks, I have created it here: https://sourceforge.net/p/syncterm/tickets/69/
Re: Re: SDL Video Initialization Failed
By: disloops to alt.bbs.synchronet on Thu Aug 05 2021 10:51 pm
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 versionTry setting the SDL_VIDEODRIVER environment variable to the value of dummy
of a ephemeral virtual machine - lacks some component or driver associated with SDL2..?
(e.g. EXPORT SDL_VIDEODRIVER=dummy).
--
digital man
I don't know what the "/dev/dri" directory would be used for.Breaking Bad quote #21:I am seeing the same error message. Here is the scenario:
You? No. The only shooting you do is into a Kleenex. - Hank
Norco, CA WX: 72.6¨F, 66.0% humidity, 0 mph SE wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs --- Synchronet 3.19a-Win32 NewsLink 1.113
* Vertrauen - Riverside County, California - telnet://vert.synchro.net
$ 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?
If the error is only displayed when exiting, I suppose it can be ignored, but I think the author would appreciate a report of error (and how to reproduce it) at https://sourceforge.net/p/syncterm/tickets/
--
digital man
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