For me, SDL2-2.0.3 was used.
-> Had trouble with no video driver found.
typed
sudo apt-get install xorg-dev
did another ./configure and it reported this
Assembly Math : mmx 3dnow sse sse2
Audio drivers : disk dummy oss
Video drivers : dummy x11(dynamic) opengl
X11 libraries : xcursor xinerama xinput2 xinput2_multitouch xrandr xscrnsaver xshape xvidmode
Input drivers : linuxev linuxkd
Using libudev : YES
Using dbus : NO
It went through everything fine but the test folder after trying to make the code it reported «Missing -lGL»
so I just assumed it was missing mesa or something and I did this
sudo apt-get build-dep xscreensaver
sudo apt-get source xscreensaver -b
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
I force installed the popular xscreensaver with my own build and SDL worked. The idea was if I could compile the screensaver then I can get SDL working.
Thanks. Worked for me. (video only)
tried to run testmultiaudio and got this
INFO: Using audio driver: dsp
ERROR: Don't see any specific audio devices!
I guess compiling and making VLC would solve most of this because VLC uses SDL for video and audio.
The counter idea is ncurses 5.9 works just fine.
Honestly, I was using peppermint 6 which was build from ubuntu and debian. I assume it works on that OS too. That is why I am posting in piecemeal steps… VLC compiling…. ERROR. Trying to do the same with totem.
(while compiling totem)
Maybe I should make a scroller demo to my imaginary friends in ncurses «BranMuffin» «Cerealbowl» «Cornflakes» and a «bowl full of cherries»
new SDL2-2.3 configure report
Assembly Math : mmx 3dnow sse sse2
Audio drivers : disk dummy oss alsa(dynamic) pulse(dynamic)
Video drivers : dummy x11(dynamic) opengl opengl_es2
X11 libraries : xcursor xinerama xinput2 xinput2_multitouch xrandr xscrnsaver xshape xvidmode
Input drivers : linuxev linuxkd
Using libudev : YES
Using dbus : YES
another round of ./configure make make install on SDL
another round of ./configure make and ./testmultiaudio and BINGO I have it after I built and installed totem too
so somewhere in the chaotic view of things from VLC and sudo apt-get build-dep totem | sudo apt-get source totem -b | dpkg -i *deb … I got my audio and video now.
References: [this page] and SDL install and compiling
remember to test if you can compile it yourself.
..to sum it up on another machine and it got it working (not the best way because I am a C average guy)
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get SDL2-2.3 from libsdl site
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get some packages and compile some. I believe that VLC and XSCREENSAVER are the only packages that are needed VLC for SDL and audio and XSCREENSAVER for opengl
sudo apt-get install xorg-dev sudo apt-get build-dep xscreensaver vlc totem sudo apt-get source xscreensaver totem -b -
(2.5) might as well get
xscreensaverand totem freshly built and install the .deb packages -
unpack SDL and go into the folder and do the common
./configure make sudo make install cd test ./configure make ./testmultiaudio -
enjoy audio clip
OS USED peppermint linux but I assume that even debian, linux mint, and ubuntu would work.
I tried to start my avd on Ubuntu 64bit 10.10, but it failed and shows the following in the log:
SDL init failure, reason is: No available video device
What can I do with that?
I tried to search for solutions and someone says it needs x11/sdl/jdk library and I installed them all but it still does not work.
Kev
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asked Jan 30, 2011 at 8:23
For Fedora 14 and 16 64bit.
Install these packages:
yum install glibc.i686 ncurses-libs.i686 libstdc libstdc++.i686
libzip.i686 libX11.i686 libXrandr.i686 SDL.i686
tzot
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answered Apr 14, 2011 at 11:02
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I just encountered this problem on Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit (Precise) and solved it by installing the 32-bit version of libsdl:
sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2debian:i386
answered Apr 12, 2012 at 17:20
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Try unsetting any environment variables along the line of SDL_*, such as SDL_VIDEODRIVER. If that doesn’t work, try export DISPLAY=:0.
answered Feb 5, 2011 at 22:03
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I finally got this to work after installing:
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs-sdl
answered Jun 26, 2011 at 18:43
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sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2debian:i386
also works on Debian/Sid amd64 with the foreign architecture i386.
thank you to crimeminister
answered Jul 6, 2012 at 5:28
If working on a 64 bit linux system you should use the emulator64* commands instead of the emulator* commands without the «64» in their name.
answered Dec 14, 2012 at 11:17
I get the «SDL init failure» when running the «emulator» command with a user with not enough privileges. Ex. jenkins user gets the error, but not root.
Drop to the commandline and run the emulator command with your normal user. You should get the same error.
Then switch to root and run emulator command again to see if user permissions or missing/wrong user environment variables is the cause of your problem.
answered Aug 11, 2011 at 11:10
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https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Hpejakle/Android
Couple of things: Run your emulator call with strace, that’ll tell you where it’s going sideways… May not necessarily allow you to fix it easily though…
It could be a number of things, the fact that your on 64 bit ubuntu tells me that there are probably missing libraries (32bit).
Check out the link and see if anyone has come up with a faq for Ubuntu 64
Good luck,
Gary
answered Feb 21, 2011 at 5:39
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The following command
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
works on 11.10.
answered Jun 6, 2012 at 17:44
sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2debian:i386
also works on ubuntu 13.10
thank you to crimeminister
answered Mar 25, 2014 at 4:50
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answered Apr 15, 2014 at 9:25
If you, like me, by accident installed manually the SDL library downloading the package and running:
./configure
make
sudo make install
but then also installed it using the package administrator with
sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev
Then it’s possible that you have some conflicts between the libraries.
Try uninstalling the pkg version
sudo apt-get remove --purge libsdl2-dev
and manually cd in the directory where you have run ./config and type
sudo make uninstall
After that you are able to reinstall from pakage(usually preferable) running
sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev
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Package and Environment Details (include every applicable attribute)
- Package Name/Version: SDL2/2.0.10
- Operating System+version: Manjaro Linux
- Compiler+version: GCC 9.2.0
- Conan version: conan 1.22.0
- Python version: Python 3.8.1
Conan profile
# Profile generated by PMM 1.9.1
# https://github.com/AnotherFoxGuy/pmm
[settings]
os=Linux
os_build=Linux
compiler=gcc
compiler.version=9
compiler.libcxx=libstdc++11
arch=x86_64
arch_build=x86_64
build_type=Release
[options]
[env]
CC=/usr/bin/cc
CXX=/usr/bin/c++
Steps to reproduce (Include if Applicable)
- Download the test project here: https://github.com/AnotherFoxGuy/conan-sdl2-test
- Build and run the test project
- The executable crashes with
SDL_Init failed: No available video device
If you downgrade SDL2 to version 2.0.9 the executable works fine
SDL2 2.0.12 is available on bincrafters and it’s still broken from 2.0.10 and upwards.
It basically prevents us (and other SDL2 based projects) to upgrade from 2.0.9 (next version have sprite batching and other fantastic features) or forces us to build the libraries manually.
This bug applies for all linux distributions
Are there any plans to fix this issue?
Yes, certainly.
I’m -assuming- that we are pretty close to shipping a solution
I’m also interested in an update to this as my project is broken on Linux right now.
Both video and audio fail to init with the following errors:
Video: No available video device
Audio: ALSA: Couldn’t open audio device: No such file or directory
If I link against Manjaro’s libSDL2 then both video and audio work fine. Not sure why it is defaulting to ALSA either, I would have expected pulseaudio.
This should be solved for a while now. Can any of you re-try on your end please?
Please make also sure that your local copy of the recipe is up to date, that your Conan version is up to date and that you use SDL 2.0.12
This recipe is now in the Conan Center Index.
Please migrate to the recipe version there.
If this is still an issue, please create a new issue in the Conan Center Index issue tracker.
Thanks!
https://conan.io/center/sdl
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#1 2018-05-06 10:00:53
- stamoulohta
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- From: Stamoulis
- Registered: 2013-10-30
- Posts: 9
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[SOLVED] SDL initialization failure: No available video device
I get the title error when I try to run dwarf fortress. If I run it with sudo everything runs fine. I thought It might be a group error so I did
for gp in `cut -f 1 -d : /etc/group`; do
usermod -a -G $gp stamoulohta
done for testing purposes only but I still get the same error…
Does anyone have an idea on what I might be missing?
Thanks.
Last edited by stamoulohta (2018-05-06 12:50:29)
#2 2018-05-06 10:34:05
- V1del
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Re: [SOLVED] SDL initialization failure: No available video device
Randomly adding your user to every group will definitely not be the fix no.
Details on your hardware would be nice. And this sounds like you broke your session, how do you log in, how do you start X? What’s the output of
loginctl show-session $XDG_SESSION_ID
hostnamectl#3 2018-05-06 10:50:11
- stamoulohta
- Member
- From: Stamoulis
- Registered: 2013-10-30
- Posts: 9
- Website
Re: [SOLVED] SDL initialization failure: No available video device
Randomly adding your user to every group will definitely not be the fix no.
lol if it did, I wouldn’t be posting in the forum ^^
I have an ATI Radeon HD 5770 Series card and I use the open source driver.
u@h ~ $ hostnamectl
Static hostname: h
Icon name: computer-desktop
Chassis: desktop
Machine ID: ***
Boot ID: ***
Operating System: Arch Linux
Kernel: Linux 4.16.6-1-ARCH
Architecture: x86-64u@h ~ $ loginctl show-session $XDG_SESSION_ID
Id=c4
User=1000
Name=u
Timestamp=Sun 2018-05-06 12:38:57 EEST
TimestampMonotonic=874623345
VTNr=1
Seat=seat0
TTY=tty1
Remote=no
Service=login
Scope=session-c4.scope
Leader=1094
Audit=0
Type=tty
Class=user
Active=yes
State=active
IdleHint=yes
IdleSinceHint=1525599545687002
IdleSinceHintMonotonic=882687002
LockedHint=noalso,
I login manually in the tty and i start X by the ‘startx’ script or I start wayland by calling sway and I get the same error.
Last edited by stamoulohta (2018-05-06 10:53:52)
#4 2018-05-06 12:24:27
- Lone_Wolf
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- From: Netherlands, Europe
- Registered: 2005-10-04
- Posts: 10,652
Re: [SOLVED] SDL initialization failure: No available video device
Looks like dwarffortress uses sdl / gtk2 .
The earliest sdl version with wayland support is sdl2 2.02, so DF won’t run natively on wayland.
Does sway support Xwayland ?
Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2018-05-06 12:24:46)
Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.
(A works at time B) && (time C > time B ) ≠ (A works at time C)
#5 2018-05-06 12:48:45
- stamoulohta
- Member
- From: Stamoulis
- Registered: 2013-10-30
- Posts: 9
- Website
Re: [SOLVED] SDL initialization failure: No available video device
Does sway support Xwayland ?
I think it does.. at least it runs urxvt.
Anyway, I figured it out. I, per the wiki, had put to my profile file
export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=waylandwitch doesn’t play well with sdl(1)..
Thanks for your time guys. I hope this helps others who did the same mistake. Cheers.
edit:
To clarify, sudo by default doesn’t pass environment variables, that’s why the game was running with sudo.
Last edited by stamoulohta (2018-05-06 12:52:25)
| Code: |
| Could not initialize SDL — No available video device (Did you set the DISPLAY variable?) |
ffmpeg (ffmpeg version 3.2.2 Copyright (c) 2000-2016 the FFmpeg developers
built with gcc 5.4.0 (Gentoo 5.4.0-r2 p1.2, pie-0.6.5) was compiled with USE=»sdl» and i recompiled ffmpeg and libsdl yesterday. i recently changed my kernel and omitted V4L, but activating it again did not change this error
| Code: |
| # CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L2_SUBDEV_API is not set CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L2=y CONFIG_V4L_PLATFORM_DRIVERS=y # CONFIG_V4L_MEM2MEM_DRIVERS is not set # CONFIG_V4L_TEST_DRIVERS is not set |
(encoding with ffmpeg works flawlessly)
i recently moved my ~amd64 system from an amd-K-something/radeon-combo to an intel/nvidia-playtform and a thing this error first occured on this new system (recompiled everything, of course)
i run the system with nouveau/nvidia-binary combined under two different kernels and this error occurs under nouveau, but i haven’t tested with nvidia-binary yet (although i don’t see how it could be related to opengl in any way; under nouveau it’s xorg-x11-opengl)
how do i get ffplay to play again (as i need in in some video-conversion-scripts)?
THX for your help!
here’s my emerge —info:
Portage 2.3.3 (python 3.4.5-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop, gcc-5.4.0, glibc-2.23-r3, 4.9.5-gentoo x86_64)
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KiB Swap: 0 total, 0 free
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 00:45:01 +0000
sh bash 4.4_p11
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.27 p1.0) 2.27
app-shells/bash: 4.4_p11::gentoo
dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0-r3::gentoo
dev-lang/perl: 5.24.1_rc4::gentoo
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sys-apps/baselayout: 2.3::gentoo
sys-apps/openrc: 0.23.1::gentoo
sys-apps/sandbox: 2.10-r3::gentoo
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13::gentoo, 2.69-r2::gentoo
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sys-devel/binutils: 2.25.1-r1::gentoo, 2.27::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc: 4.9.3::gentoo, 5.4.0-r2::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6-r2::gentoo
sys-devel/make: 4.2.1::gentoo
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.9::gentoo (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc: 2.23-r3::gentoo
Repositories:
gentoo
location: /usr/portage
sync-type: rsync
sync-uri: rsync://10.10.1.231/gentoo-portage
priority: -1000
gentoo-kodi-overlay
location: /usr/local/portage/kodi-overlay/gentoo-kodi-overlay
sync-type: git
sync-uri: git://github.com/herrnst/gentoo-kodi-overlay.git
masters: gentoo
priority: 50
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CFLAGS=»-march=native -O2 -pipe»
CHOST=»x86_64-pc-linux-gnu»
CONFIG_PROTECT=»/etc /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/sofficerc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt»
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=»/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo»
CXXFLAGS=»-march=native -O2 -pipe»
DISTDIR=»/usr/portage/distfiles»
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=»—keep-going»
FCFLAGS=»-O2 -pipe»
FEATURES=»assume-digests binpkg-logs buildpkg config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms split-log strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync»
FFLAGS=»-O2 -pipe»
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DUMM KLICKT GUT.
Device: OGA 1.1 Black
OS image: Ubuntu 20 with ES (Linux goadvance 4.4.189-27 #1 SMP Wed May 13 00:52:14 UTC 2020 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux)
I’m working on Ubuntu terminal mode, without GUI.
Installed:
sudo apt-get install xorg-dev
Then I download sdl-go2 source code from: https://github.com/OtherCrashOverride/sdl-go2
cd SDL > mkdir build > cd build > ../configure > make > sudo make install
cd SDL/test > ./configure /make
test SDL audio (works fine):
/sdl/test$ ./loopwave
INFO: Available audio drivers:
INFO: 0: pulseaudio
INFO: 1: alsa
INFO: 2: sndio
INFO: 3: dsp
INFO: 4: disk
INFO: 5: dummy
INFO: Using audio driver: alsa
test SDL video (Couldn’t initialize ) :
sdl/test$ ./testautomation
INFO: Couldn’t initialize video driver: No available video device
lauch another application use SDL:
$love
Error: Could not initialize SDL video subsystem (No available video device)
stack traceback:
[string «boot.lua»]:777: in function <[string «boot.lua»]:773>
C: at 0x7f7e5f1018
C: in function ‘require’
[string «boot.lua»]:505: in function <[string «boot.lua»]:380>
C: in function ‘xpcall’
[string «boot.lua»]:787: in function <[string «boot.lua»]:780>
C: in function ‘xpcall’
How can I fix it? 
I had a lot of ways try to fix it, but dose not work.
Please help, Thanks!
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Could not initialize SDL: No available video device!
Hi everyone,
I’ve been trying to run ScummVM 2.2.0 on MX Linux 19.4 (based on Debian 10) for a few days now. Nothing happens when trying to start it from the GUI, and using the Terminal gives the error:
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Could not initialize SDL: No available video device!I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling, both from the .deb package and from the package manager, but haven’t had any luck launching either. I have SDL 2.0.14 installed and am using a NVIDIA 2080 Super with proprietary drivers. Am I doing something wrong here or is this a bug?
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Re: Could not initialize SDL: No available video device!
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by alchemist_alchemist » Sun Jul 04, 2021 4:08 am
Thanks; although SDL’s documentation wasn’t much help, knowing that it was not a ScummVM problem helped narrow down the issue. At first I thought I’d just compiled SDL incorrectly, so I removed it and tried installing through Synaptic. For some reason even though Debian’s SDL package includes X11 and Wayland, it still refused to launch regardless of which driver I specified in the environment variables. I searched around some more and found this forum thread https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=944671. The second-to-last post was more-or-less the solution that finally worked. TL;DR for anyone else with this problem: remove scummvm and all versions of libsdl that are currently installed, then install libsdl1.2-dev, download the latest SDL version from libsdl.org, extract it, compile using
and
then finally
Reinstall ScummVM and it should (hopefully) launch.