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..?

Thanks for your help!
@disloops
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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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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

Breaking Bad quote #21:
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

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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After installing SyncTerm on an AWS EC2 instance running Amazon Linux which is based on RHEL, I get this message:

SDL Video Initialization Failed

$ sudo yum install gcc
$ sudo yum install patch
$ sudo yum install ncurses-devel
$ sudo yum install SDL2-devel

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

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

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

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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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 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

Breaking Bad quote #21:
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

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?

I don't know what the "/dev/dri" directory would be used for.

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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Re: Re: SDL Video Initializat
By: paulie420 to disloops on Fri Aug 06 2021 03:54 am

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..

As of SyncTERM v1.2 (now in alpha testing), SDL2 is used (not SDL1).
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digital man

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

As of SyncTERM v1.2 (now in alpha testing), SDL2 is used (not SDL1).
digital man

Thanks, DM - maybe thats why I am still plunking around with 1.1; i'll give 1.2+ a go again... thanks for that response - didn't mean to help with bad info.



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On Friday, August 6, 2021 at 1:43:53 PM UTC-4, Digital Man wrote:

To: disloops
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 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

Breaking Bad quote #21:
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

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?

I don't know what the "/dev/dri" directory would be used for.

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

Sling Blade quote #9:
Doyle Hargraves: Morris here is a modern-day poet, kinda like in olden times.
Norco, CA WX: 79.5¨F, 60.0% humidity, 1 mph WNW wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs --- Synchronet 3.19a-Win32 NewsLink 1.113
* Vertrauen - Riverside County, California - telnet://vert.synchro.net

Okay thanks, I have created it here: https://sourceforge.net/p/syncterm/tickets/69/
...we shall see!
@disloops
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On 8/6/2021 11:21 AM, paul lee wrote:

Thanks, DM - maybe thats why I am still plunking around with 1.1;

i'll > give 1.2+ a go again... thanks for that response - didn't mean to
help

with bad info.

Can you build/run without SDL installed? Otherwise, try forcing ncurses
mode with the command-line switch.
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