Error loading VDrift - Surface creation failed (Fedora 8)

[joevenzon]

thelusiv: When he compiled manually it didn't crash, it gave him the exception he mentioned (surface creation failed).

beavis: Let's just ignore the autopackage, since it's an older version and could have other reasons why it'd crash, and concentrate on the 12-26 version you compiled. The "surface creation failed" error could mean you have something wrong with your system (not VDrift specific). Have you been able to run any other programs that use SDL or OpenGL? Is there any reason you can think of that creating an 800x600 16-bit window (the default) would fail? Did you try removing your ~/.vdrift directory before running the 12-26 version?