1 message in com.googlegroups.android-beginnersRe: [android-beginners] Emulator Fail...| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Digit | 28 Feb 2008 01:19 |
| Subject: | Re: [android-beginners] Emulator Fails To Start With Error Message |
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| From: | Digit (digi...@gmail.com) |
| Date: | 02/28/2008 01:19:00 AM |
| List: | com.googlegroups.android-beginners |
Hello Markus,
"SDL init failure, reason is: No available video device"
wow, this is an extremely rare error, and I don't see any reason why it would happen on Windows, unless you heavily modify your environment. could you do the following ?:
1/ open a Command-Line console 2/ go to the M5 $SDK/tools directory 3/ try to launch the emulator by simply typing "emulator"
if this still fails:
4/ type "set", this will print the list of environment variables defined on your system 5/ look for anything that begins with "SDL_" and if found, send me the list 6/ if none begins with SDL_, please send me the complete output so I can have a look
for the record, the SDL we use in the emulator was compiled to use the "windib" video driver, which should work on all Windows installations, independent of the graphics card. if you use an environment variable to use a different SDL driver, that could explain your failure.
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 5:05 AM, Markus Wankus <mark...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi There,
I have set up Eclipse to develop Android applications and it is failing to launch the emulator. Here is my console trace:
[2008-02-27 22:53:50 - HelloAndroid] ------------------------------ [2008-02-27 22:53:50 - HelloAndroid] Android Launch! [2008-02-27 22:53:50 - HelloAndroid] adb is running normally. [2008-02-27 22:53:50 - HelloAndroid] Launching: <my.namespace>.android.hello.HelloAndroid [2008-02-27 22:53:50 - HelloAndroid] Automatic Target Mode: launch emulator. [2008-02-27 22:53:50 - HelloAndroid] Launching a new emulator.
..and then nothing happens and there is nothing in the Eclipse .log file.
I tried launching the emulator from a command prompt (I am on WinXP SP2) and I get the following error message:
SDL init failure, reason is: No available video device
Has anyone seen this error before or know what causes it?
I have a Dell XPS 710 with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 8800. Does anyone know if there are any issues with SDL and this graphics card? That is the only other thing I can think of at the moment.
I'm very familiar with Eclipse so if anyone has any Eclipse suggestions I'd be happy to hear them as well.
Thanks in advance, Mark.