SDL init failure, reason is: No available video device

Question

For Fedora 14 and 16 64bit.

Install these packages:

yum install glibc.i686 ncurses-libs.i686 libstdc libstdc++.i686 \
    libzip.i686 libX11.i686 libXrandr.i686 SDL.i686

I just encountered this problem on Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit (Precise) and solved it by installing the 32-bit version of libsdl:

sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2debian:i386

Try unsetting any environment variables along the line of SDL_*, such as SDL_VIDEODRIVER. If that doesn't work, try export DISPLAY=:0.

I finally got this to work after installing:

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs-sdl