Re: vectorids

[Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net>]

	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