#69 SDL Video Initialization Failed

[disloops]

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

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?

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..?

Thanks for your help!
@disloops

[Stephen James Hurd]

This is normal. By default, SyncTERM attempts to start in SDL mode. If that fails, it runs in X11 mode. You can change the default mode, or override it from the command-line if you wish.