Subj : SDL Video Initialization Failed
To   : alt.bbs.synchronet
From : disloops
Date : Thu Aug 05 2021 20:19:44

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..?

Thanks for your help!
@disloops
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