lbreakout2 / Wayland: No available video device

[smcv]

Prerequisites:

• Debian testing (Debian 12 alpha)
• Video: GNOME 43 in Wayland mode (with Mesa 22.2.0 on AMD Vega, if it matters)
• Audio: Pipewire 0.3.59, with pipewire-pulse emulating PulseAudio
• apt install lbreakout2 (Debian package version 2.6.5-2)
• Some relevant libraries:
  • libsdl1.2-compat either 1.2.58-1 (packaged in Debian experimental) or commit 63e4393 (locally built)
  • libsdl2-2.0-0 version 2.24.1+dfsg-1

To reproduce:

• lbreakout2
• LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.../sdl12-compat/_build lbreakout2
• SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.../sdl12-compat/_build lbreakout2

Expected result: all work

Actual result: with sdl12-compat and SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland, it fails during startup. Workaround: use X11.

LBreakout2 2.6.5
Copyright 2001-2011 Michael Speck
Published under GNU GPL
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Looking up data in: /usr/share/games/lbreakout2
Looking up highscores in: /var/games
Looking up custom levels in: /home/desktop/.lgames/lbreakout2-levels
/home/desktop/.lgames/lbreakout2.conf: file not found
Fatal STK Error!
No available video device

[icculus]

setgid issue.

[smcv]

Confirmed, same as https://github.com/libsdl-org/sdl12-compat/issues/247#issuecomment-1276887769