linux lobster: fatal error: Unable to initialize SDL: No available video device about lobster HOT 4 CLOSED

Never seen this, must mean there's something going badly wrong inside SDL, or you don't have OpenGL drivers installed.

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Yeah, I'm going to try to figure out what's up with the SDL, it's probably there.

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Just an update: it indeed was an issue with my installation of SDL2. I didn't have the 32 bits versions of X11 installed and SDL2 configure thought that was just fine. :) That 32 bits requirement does make installation a LOT harder on a 64 bit linux...

Now SDL2 is working, including its 'testgl2' program. But lobster fails with this:

ERROR: Could not create GL context
fatal error: Unable to create OpenGL context: Could not create GL context

I see it flash up a window very briefly and then the program crashes with this result. If this is another SDL2 issue I don't know where to look as its testgl2 demo works; clues would be useful. Thanks!

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Lobster does require an OpenGL 2.0 context, and has some other settings, you could check if you made the testgl2 require a similar context as what happens in Lobster's SDLInit() function.

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