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twilight
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SDL initialization error on my machine
« on: June 21, 2005, 09:56:31 pm »

Sup guys. I've been trying to install the newest version from source code on my Ubuntu system, and I've come to the conclusion that I suck at installing from source, haha. I don't have much problems running the older version of the game that I installed from a .deb off of the Debian repositories, but I'd really like to play the newest version, I hope somebody can give me a little advice.
The error I get when I try to run the newer version is

Code:

Initializing base SDL functionality.
Using SDL version 1.2.8 (compiled with 1.2.8)
Could not initialize SDL: No available video device.

When I run the old version it says

Code:

Initializing SDL (pure).
SDL driver used: x11
SDL initialized.

So I guess I'm kinda curious how I get the new version of the game to tell SDL that my video device is x11, or if I missed out on getting some particular dependency?

I was also having problems with the older version and trying to get it to use ESD for sound, but I don't know if that's going to be the case in the new version cause I haven't gotten that far in running it yet, but any hints on that would be appreciated too, I tried using an argument of --sound=ESD but it didn't work. Is there something else about the syntax of sound arguments that I'm missing, or perhaps something else I'm supposed to specify?


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Re: SDL initialization error on my machine
« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2005, 10:14:07 pm »

These are SDL issues. You need to have a version of SDL which is compiled with x11 support to run in X. There's probably a package for that.
Similarly for the various sound drivers that SDL supports.
You can override the default video and audio driver with respectively the environment variable SDL_VIDEODRIVER and SDL_AUDIODRIVER. See here for the possible values.


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Re: SDL initialization error on my machine
« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2005, 12:37:12 am »

Cool, that's exactly the stuff I needed to know, thank you very much. I got the sound working now on the old version thanks to that info, and I'm pretty sure I'll be able to get the new one working now too, once I mess with it a little more. You were right, there was a SDL package compiled for x11, even one compiled specifically for ESD. I hadn't added non-main repositories to my apt-get yet cause I just formatted, and so didn't see the packages. Oh well..

Anyway, thanks again for the help, see you later.


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