qemu Could not initialize SDL - exiting

[Juergen Lock]

In article <200510311602.15318.ringworm01 at gmail.com> you write:
>Is there a trick to geting sdl to initialize? I always get:
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>"Could not initialize SDL - exiting"
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>when trying to start qemu. The only thing I found with google was trying:
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> xhost + and that did not help. Could it b my video hardware?

Hmm.  Maybe sdl wants some extension that your xserver doesnt support...
But maybe its something else entirely.  ktrace'ing might tell whats wrong.