From: disloops@gmail.com   
      
   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).    
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   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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