From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 31 04:46:43 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A5F516A420 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 04:46:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm01@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03B2C43D46 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 04:46:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm01@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s13so453297wxc for ; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 20:46:42 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=CWyXhJkTYjY7cMSbHIig0CKR2PFg7HAsCbVD9w0mAD7qq+FdcTaywPPPVjO0ss36rVg+kjxEpffOoJj6wgTJoeKKfmU2FzR6HZJNYb94ryej1ZgOnKQdLBlaQpaQ9gP4WxBVZJKDTU41+7U6eBzazUqavTSPUR5eNNe/Mvr3B4Q= Received: by 10.70.77.18 with SMTP id z18mr1517207wxa; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 19:03:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.10? ( [71.102.14.129]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id h35sm1417623wxd.2005.10.30.19.03.32; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 19:03:33 -0800 (PST) From: "Michael C. Shultz" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 18:58:22 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510301858.23251.ringworm01@gmail.com> Subject: qemu Could not initialize SDL - exiting X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 04:46:43 -0000 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? My ports are up to date. If it helps, I have a matrox card, here is the xorg log: (II) Loading sub module "mga_hal" (II) LoadModule: "mga_hal" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_hal_drv.o (II) Module mga_hal: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 6.8.1, module version = 4.1.0 ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7 (==) MGA(0): Matrox HAL module used (II) MGA(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section "Builtin Default mga Screen 0" for depth/fbbpp 16/16 (==) MGA(0): Depth 16, (==) framebuffer bpp 16 (==) MGA(0): RGB weight 565 (==) MGA(0): Using AGP 1x mode (--) MGA(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xDC000000 (--) MGA(0): MMIO registers at 0xDFDFC000 (--) MGA(0): Pseudo-DMA transfer window at 0xDF000000 (--) MGA(0): BIOS at 0xDFDC0000 (II) Truncating PCI BIOS Length to 34816 (--) MGA(0): Video BIOS info block at offset 0x07720 (WW) MGA(0): Video BIOS info block not detected! (II) MGA(0): MGABios.RamdacType = 0x0 (==) MGA(0): Write-combining range (0xdfdfc000,0x4000) was already clear (==) MGA(0): Write-combining range (0xdc000000,0x2000000) (==) MGA(0): Write-combining range (0xdf000000,0x800000) was already clear (--) MGA(0): VideoRAM: 16384 kByte and of corse: uname -a FreeBSD ringworm.mechee.com 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Mon Oct 17 13:51:14 PDT 2005 i386 thank you -Mike