Hi. On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 10:45:12PM +0100, Paul Sutton wrote: > Further to my previous e-mail > > trying to run vectoroids (asteroids clone) comes up with > > vectoroids > > Error: I could not initialize video! > The Simple DirectMedia error that occurred was: > Unable to open a console terminal > > This worked fine in Stretch, so has something has changed between > upgrading ? SDL seems to be causing quite a few issues
You could say that. SDL's "Unable to open a console terminal" message basically says that you do not have an X server running, so SDL program falls back to framebuffer device (/dev/fb*). Which it is unable to open in your case. And the most important buster's change in that aspect is the transition of GNOME session from X to Wayland. So I'd check if XWayland is running, that you have $DISPLAY and $XAUTHORITY defined and all that. Because I just checked that dosbox (which does use SDL) works for me in buster, and I do not use Wayland. Reco