Hi guys,

i'm trying to run a very basic videogame called powermanga, i compiled from the source and i installed it.

But when i'm going to run it... an error occur:

[root@SRVTREP01 games]# ./powermanga

(II) configuration filename: /root/.config/tlk-games/powermanga.conf [config_file.c:238, configfile_load]

(II) fullscreen: 1; nosound: 1; resolution: 640; verbose: 0; difficulty: 1; lang: en; scale_x: 2; joy_config 0 1 0 1 2; nosync: 0 [config_file.c:105, configfile_print]

(EE) SDL_SetVideoMode() return Couldn't set console screen info [display_sdl.c:421, init_video_mode]

My Hardware is:

product: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5660 @ 2.80GHz
product: ProLiant DL360 G7 (BY269A) - 6 Giga RAM DDR3
vendor: HP

OS: Centos 6 - Linux 3.10.0-514.10.2.el7.x86_64

Does anyone has some suggestions?

Thanks

Anto

Well, yes I do have a few suggestions;

1) Why are you trying to run it under the root user account?

You should ONLY be using that account for system administration, NOT for games.

2) Any reason why you are still using CentOS 6?

The latest version is 7.4

I suggest you download and install the latest version of CentOS and do NOT use the root user account, to run your game.

Do you have a custom xorg.conf? There's a similar issue for my DosBox fork, where the user did some weird stuff to his X configuration that prevented SDL from setting the video mode.

Welcome to LQ!!! A web-search (of error) result: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comme..._linux_console
I wonder IF my favorite 'toy' strace (-f-o see man) might gather any useful info here...
Let us know... (mark Thread Solv'd if you find&post info/keywords, for future searchers)

Tried this an now a get a differente error:

(EE) SDL_Init() failed: No available video device

No, i do not have custom configuration.

Strace:

[root@SRVTREP01 games]# strace -d ./powermanga


wait(0x857f) = 2034] WIFSTOPPED,sig=133
connect(3, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(6000), sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}, 16 [wait(0x857f) = 2034] WIFSTOPPED,sig=133
) = -1 ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused)
[wait(0x857f) = 2034] WIFSTOPPED,sig=133
close(3 [wait(0x857f) = 2034] WIFSTOPPED,sig=133
) = 0
[wait(0x857f) = 2034] WIFSTOPPED,sig=133
munmap(0x7f5af825e000, 2138568 [wait(0x857f) = 2034] WIFSTOPPED,sig=133
) = 0
[wait(0x857f) = 2034] WIFSTOPPED,sig=133
munmap(0x7f5af8469000, 2138760 [wait(0x857f) = 2034] WIFSTOPPED,sig=133
) = 0
[wait(0x857f) = 2034] WIFSTOPPED,sig=133
munmap(0x7f5af8674000, 2169112 [wait(0x857f) = 2034] WIFSTOPPED,sig=133
) = 0
[wait(0x857f) = 2034] WIFSTOPPED,sig=133
munmap(0x7f5af8cb2000, 3399136 [wait(0x857f) = 2034] WIFSTOPPED,sig=133
) = 0
[wait(0x857f) = 2034] WIFSTOPPED,sig=133
munmap(0x7f5af8a8a000, 2257960 [wait(0x857f) = 2034] WIFSTOPPED,sig=133
) = 0
[wait(0x857f) = 2034] WIFSTOPPED,sig=133
munmap(0x7f5af8886000, 2109736 [wait(0x857f) = 2034] WIFSTOPPED,sig=133
) = 0
[wait(0x857f) = 2034] WIFSTOPPED,sig=133
write(2, "(EE) SDL_Init() failed: No avail"..., 84(EE) SDL_Init() failed: No available video device [display_sdl.c:210, display_init]
[wait(0x857f) = 2034] WIFSTOPPED,sig=133
) = 84
[wait(0x857f) = 2034] WIFSTOPPED,sig=133
rt_sigaction(SIGSEGV, NULL, [wait(0x857f) = 2034] WIFSTOPPED,sig=133
{SIG_DFL, [], 0}, 8) = 0
[wait(0x857f) = 2034] WIFSTOPPED,sig=133
rt_sigaction(SIGBUS, NULL, [wait(0x857f) = 2034] WIFSTOPPED,sig=133
{SIG_DFL, [], 0}, 8) = 0
[wait(0x857f) = 2034] WIFSTOPPED,sig=133
rt_sigaction(SIGFPE, NULL, [wait(0x857f) = 2034] WIFSTOPPED,sig=133
{SIG_DFL, [], 0}, 8) = 0
[wait(0x857f) = 2034] WIFSTOPPED,sig=133
rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, NULL, [wait(0x857f) = 2034] WIFSTOPPED,sig=133
{SIG_DFL, [], 0}, 8) = 0
[wait(0x857f) = 2034] WIFSTOPPED,sig=133
open("/root/.config/tlk-games/powermanga.conf", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666 [wait(0x857f) = 2034] WIFSTOPPED,sig=133
) = 3
[wait(0x857f) = 2034] WIFSTOPPED,sig=133
fstat(3, [wait(0x857f) = 2034] WIFSTOPPED,sig=133
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
[wait(0x857f) = 2034] WIFSTOPPED,sig=133
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0 [wait(0x857f) = 2034] WIFSTOPPED,sig=133

this right here looks to be a MAJOR problem
a cent 7 kernel on a cent 6 os

very very very bad idea
i am surprise that anything is working

My mistake... it's 7.

[root@SRVTREP01 ~]# cat /etc/centos-release
CentOS Linux release 7.3.1611 (Core)