Doubts

SDL Development
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hi

i am new to SDL programming, am working on linux, when am trying to
initialize the video device using SDL_Init(SDL_VIDEO_INIT), am getting the
error message like
"Could not initialize SDL - No available video device"

to over come this problem do i need to modify or enable any thing

please help me out on this

thanks in advance
pavan kumar .k

2

What version of SDL are you using? And did you build the library from source from the command line?

3

Are you doing this from X or from the console, and if the latter, do you
have a framebuffer device available (/dev/fb0 or possibly /dev/fb/0)?

AndyOn Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:39 PM, pavan kumar <kumar.pavan463 at gmail.com>wrote:

hi

i am new to SDL programming, am working on linux, when am trying to
initialize the video device using SDL_Init(SDL_VIDEO_INIT), am getting the
error message like
"Could not initialize SDL - No available video device"

to over come this problem do i need to modify or enable any thing

please help me out on this

thanks in advance
pavan kumar .k

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Hammerhead Vision
208-794-4432

4

I remember a similar problem a while ago. The problem was the display
variable was not set. Something like:

export DISPLAY=:0.0

needed to be run prior to using sdl.

try

echo $DISPLAY

and see what happens. then export the display variable as above.

Hope that helps,

JohnOn Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Andy Kazmaier wrote:

Are you doing this from X or from the console, and if the latter, do you
have a framebuffer device available (/dev/fb0 or possibly /dev/fb/0)?

Andy

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:39 PM, pavan kumar <kumar.pavan463 at gmail.com> wrote:

hi

i am new to SDL programming, am working on linux, when am trying to
initialize the video device using SDL_Init(SDL_VIDEO_INIT), am getting the
error message like
"Could not initialize SDL - No available video device"

to over come this problem do i need to modify or enable any thing

please help me out on this

thanks in advance
pavan kumar .k

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SDL at lists.libsdl.org
http://lists.libsdl.org/listinfo.cgi/sdl-libsdl.org

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Andy Kazmaier
Hammerhead Vision
208-794-4432

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5

Make sure you’ve got all your x11 headers and libraries installed.

These are not installed by default on newer versions of Ubuntu.------------------------
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