I’m a newbie of SDL. Actually, I’m a newbie of Linux programmer, too.
I downloaded SDL-1.0.8, compiled and installed it succefully.
But I can’t run the test program in the console’s framebuffer.
Everytime I try to execute test program (ex: test/testbitmap), it will tell
me
"No available video device", but it can work well under my X-window.
I have set the environment variable SDL_VIDEODRIVER=fbcon, but it
still can’t find the correct video device. I had tried to use
"./configure --disable-video-x11" and rebuild the library to avoid the
inference of X11’s video driver, but it still can’t run on confb mode. (of
course it can’t run on x11, meanwhile).
Can somebody tell me how to run a SDL program without X11?
Or what documents should I read first?
My working plateform:
Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 (Linux kernel: 2.2.10)
Display Card: Matrox G400
I’m a newbie of SDL. Actually, I’m a newbie of Linux programmer, too.
I downloaded SDL-1.0.8, compiled and installed it succefully.
But I can’t run the test program in the console’s framebuffer.
Everytime I try to execute test program (ex: test/testbitmap), it will tell
me
"No available video device", but it can work well under my X-window.
I have set the environment variable SDL_VIDEODRIVER=fbcon, but it
still can’t find the correct video device. I had tried to use
"./configure --disable-video-x11" and rebuild the library to avoid the
inference of X11’s video driver, but it still can’t run on confb mode. (of
course it can’t run on x11, meanwhile).
Can somebody tell me how to run a SDL program without X11?
Or what documents should I read first?
It’s possible that you have fbcon enabled in your kernel but you are not
starting your Linux kerenel with it.Try the command “fbset”.It might say
"open /dev/fb0: No such device".
Read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/matroxfb.txt to see how to start your
console in graphics mode using lilo parameters so that you can have a
freamebuffer device.
And compiling SDL with X11 will not interfere if X11 is not running.