ubgraded to Gutsy now Bzflag won't launch

[SkyW]

I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) and now I received this error when I try to launch BZflag:

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Could not initialize SDL Video subsystem: No available video device

I tried upgrading to the latest Nvidia driver, tried re-installing the SDL packages to avail.

Any ideas where to look?

[anomaly]

If BZFlag did not upgrade as well, you may need to re-install it too.

[SkyW]

If BZFlag did not upgrade as well, you may need to re-install it too.

yeah i thought of that too and tried it to no avail..
I even tried to try upgrading to bzflag 2.0.10 and I get the same error

[JeffM]

the error is not with bzflag, it is with X11 and your video drivers.

SDL can not create a display at the resolution you are asking for.

try to run in a window.

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bzflag -window -geometry 800x600

if that fails, then there is a problem with your video drivers.

[SkyW]

the error is not with bzflag, it is with X11 and your video drivers.

SDL can not create a display at the resolution you are asking for.

try to run in a window.

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bzflag -window -geometry 800x600

if that fails, then there is a problem with your video drivers.

$ bzflag -window -geometry 800x600
Could not initialize SDL Video subsystem: No available video device

unfortunately same error.I've been looking into the video drivers and X11, I just don't know where to look...

[SkyW]

It looks at though I needed to recompile the SDL library:

Process:

1. Download SDL source from http://www.libsdl.org/download-1.2.php

2. navigate to package directory

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 sudo ./configure

sudo make

sudo make install 

launch bzflag... let destruction begin!!!

[F687/s]

Did you do that already, or is that your process you'll be taking? If you got it to work, congratulations, and I look forward to blowing you up shortly.

If not, you may want to open Synaptic (or similar) and do a search for SDL. The packages you need may be available, and you'll be saved one more source build. You can never have too many .deb files.

(P.S. Running ./configure and make as root is generally a bad idea If ./configure (or make files) were to contain something like rm -rf / , you would be in much pain. I know it's Linux, but let's be secure, people.)