SDL and console

myrmidon · 02-18-2006, 06:56 AM

HEllo to all, i'm creating a small SDL program which display some tux.jpg on screen. The program worked greeat, but i reinstalled my Mandrake 9.2 on new HD.

The program still working fine under X enviroment, but when i try to run it from console it wont start , i get an SDL error :

could not initialize SDL : No available video device .

What did i missed to install ?

Best regards...

xhi · 02-18-2006, 10:10 AM

you need to have an x display available to sdl..

myrmidon · 02-19-2006, 04:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xhi

you need to have an x display available to sdl..

ok, but meaning what do i need exactly ?

cs-cam · 02-19-2006, 05:59 AM

To be running X. SDL obviously doesn't support drawing to the framebuffer.

mic · 02-19-2006, 06:49 AM

You don't need X for SDL. SDL supports framebuffer. Check these things:

1) Kernel config. You need framebuffer support, check your options for CONFIG_FB* and CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE in particular.

2) Configure SDL with --enable-video-fbcon before compiling.

3) If device file /dev/fb0 is missing, create it with:
mknod -m 666 /dev/fb0 c 29 0

That works for me.

myrmidon · 02-19-2006, 02:54 PM

ok thx m8, i will try that. Btw. i KNOW that my SDL program runned without the X, but after i migrated to ne HD , this problem occured.