SDL init failure, reason is: No available video device

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I tried to start my avd on Ubuntu 64bit 10.10, but it failed and shows the following in the log:

SDL init failure, reason is: No available video device

What can I do with that?

I tried to search for solutions and someone says it needs x11/sdl/jdk library and I installed them all but it still does not work.

Rapscallion answered 30/1, 2011 at 8:23 Comment(0)

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I finally got this to work after installing:

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs-sdl

Zamindar answered 26/6, 2011 at 18:43 Comment(1)

I don't see any package called 'ia322stdc++6b32 ', perhaps you mean 'lib32stdc++6'? – Vehement 22/12, 2011 at 18:52

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For Fedora 14 and 16 64bit.

Install these packages:

yum install glibc.i686 ncurses-libs.i686 libstdc libstdc++.i686 \
    libzip.i686 libX11.i686 libXrandr.i686 SDL.i686

Danielledaniels answered 14/4, 2011 at 11:2 Comment(3)

+1 Awesome man. I tried running the emulator after the installation of each of the packages missing on my machine. After the install of libXrandr.i686, it worked! – Histology 22/8, 2012 at 1:5

Thanks a lot, in fedora 17 64bit kernel 3.5.2 works perfectly :) – Unskillful 31/8, 2012 at 21:9

Thanks! It worked on Fedora 16 (3.4.2). Package libstdc doesn't exist but the others worked fine. – Anaemic 16/10, 2012 at 21:29

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I just encountered this problem on Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit (Precise) and solved it by installing the 32-bit version of libsdl:

sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2debian:i386

Mydriasis answered 12/4, 2012 at 17:20 Comment(2)

Thank you - this was the only one which worked for me - Kubuntu 64 12.04 – Mweru 9/5, 2012 at 18:26

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 && sudo apt-get update if unable to locate package – Paulapauldron 11/4, 2016 at 10:23

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Try unsetting any environment variables along the line of SDL_*, such as SDL_VIDEODRIVER. If that doesn't work, try export DISPLAY=:0.

Anatolic answered 5/2, 2011 at 22:3 Comment(2)

Too bad, that's the extent of my knowledge of this. The latter solution worked for me on that error. – Anatolic 10/2, 2011 at 16:16

FWIW, seems like most of the other answers relate to the "first time usage" of an SDL binary; export DISPLAY=:0 worked for me and may be relevant to others where a SSH init script changes the chosen display for X11 forwarding. – Centric 21/2, 2016 at 23:46

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I finally got this to work after installing:

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs-sdl

Zamindar answered 26/6, 2011 at 18:43 Comment(1)

I don't see any package called 'ia322stdc++6b32 ', perhaps you mean 'lib32stdc++6'? – Vehement 22/12, 2011 at 18:52

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sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2debian:i386

also works on Debian/Sid amd64 with the foreign architecture i386.

thank you to crimeminister

Sara answered 6/7, 2012 at 5:28 Comment(0)

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If working on a 64 bit linux system you should use the emulator64* commands instead of the emulator* commands without the "64" in their name.

Chronology answered 14/12, 2012 at 11:17 Comment(0)

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I get the "SDL init failure" when running the "emulator" command with a user with not enough privileges. Ex. jenkins user gets the error, but not root.

Drop to the commandline and run the emulator command with your normal user. You should get the same error.

Then switch to root and run emulator command again to see if user permissions or missing/wrong user environment variables is the cause of your problem.

Zonation answered 11/8, 2011 at 11:10 Comment(0)

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https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Hpejakle/Android

Couple of things: Run your emulator call with strace, that'll tell you where it's going sideways... May not necessarily allow you to fix it easily though...

It could be a number of things, the fact that your on 64 bit ubuntu tells me that there are probably missing libraries (32bit).

Check out the link and see if anyone has come up with a faq for Ubuntu 64

Good luck,

Gary

Propagandism answered 21/2, 2011 at 5:39 Comment(0)

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If you, like me, by accident installed manually the SDL library downloading the package and running:

./configure

make

sudo make install

but then also installed it using the package administrator with

sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev

Then it's possible that you have some conflicts between the libraries. Try uninstalling the pkg version

sudo apt-get remove --purge libsdl2-dev

and manually cd in the directory where you have run ./config and type

sudo make uninstall

After that you are able to reinstall from pakage(usually preferable) running

sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev

Strachan answered 31/12, 2021 at 13:9 Comment(0)

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The following command

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

works on 11.10.

Priestly answered 6/6, 2012 at 17:44 Comment(0)

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sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2debian:i386

also works on ubuntu 13.10

thank you to crimeminister

Mordacious answered 25/3, 2014 at 4:50 Comment(0)

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Uncheck "Show emulator window" in Jenkins job configuration at android section.

SDL init failure, reason is: No available video device

"[android] Emulator did not appear to start; giving up"

Bloodletting answered 15/4, 2014 at 9:25 Comment(0)

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