[Qemu-devel] Re: Help on "Could not initialize SDL - exiting"

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Most likely DISPLAY not set.

On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 07:40:01AM -0300, Dejun.Liu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Im a newbie to qemu use.
> so i got a lot error!..........
> 
> I build qemu from source with the version 0.10.3,
> 
> But when i start qemu with the command below, i got the message
> Could not initialize SDL - exiting
> 
> after that Qemu exit. I dig the web ,but i could not find any answers,so
> I ask this question in this maillist,sorry for this.
> 
> Command:
> /angstrom-dev/staging/i686-linux/usr/bin/qemu-system-arm -M
> versatilepb -usb -usbdevice wacom-tablet -show-cursor -m 64
> -kernel 
> /home/protocol/study/OE/angstrom-dev/deploy/glibc/images/qemuarm/zImage-2.6.25+2.6.26-rc4-r6-qemuarm.bin
>  -drive 
> file=/home/protocol/study/OE/angstrom-dev/deploy/glibc/images/qemuarm/Angstrom-x11-image-glibc-ipk-2009.X-stable-qemuarm.rootfs.ext3
>  -append "root=/dev/sda"
> 
> And ldd result of qemu-system-arm is:
> 
> address@hidden:~# ldd `which qemu-system-arm`
>       linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb7f4c000)
>       libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7f18000)
>       libz.so.1
> => /home/protocol/study/OE/angstrom-dev/staging/i686-linux/usr/lib/libz.so.1 
> (0xb7f06000)
>       libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7eed000)
>       librt.so.1 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xb7ee4000)
>       libutil.so.1 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xb7ee0000)
>       libSDL-1.2.so.0
> => 
> /home/protocol/study/OE/angstrom-dev/staging/i686-linux/usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0
>  (0xb7e9f000)
>       libncurses.so.5
> => 
> /home/protocol/study/OE/angstrom-dev/staging/i686-linux/usr/lib/libncurses.so.5
>  (0xb7e5c000)
>       libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7d0c000)
>       /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f4d000)
>       libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb7d08000)
> 
> 
> would anyone like to help me to solve this problem?
> 
> 
> Cheers 
> Steven Liu
> 
> 
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