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From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>
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Subject: Re: qemu Could not initialize SDL - exiting
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In article <200510311602.15318.ringworm01@gmail.com> you write:
>Is there a trick to geting sdl to initialize? I always get:
>
>"Could not initialize SDL - exiting"
>
>when trying to start qemu. The only thing I found with google was trying:
>
> xhost + and that did not help. Could it b my video hardware?

Hmm.  Maybe sdl wants some extension that your xserver doesnt support...
But maybe its something else entirely.  ktrace'ing might tell whats wrong.