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Raspberry Pi 3B+: No available video device

See original GitHub issue

Versions

Python: 3.5.3
OS: Raspbian Stretch Lite
Kivy: 1.11.0.dev0
Kivy installation method: sudo pip3 install git+https://github.com/kivy/kivy.git@master

Description

Just installed Kivy on the latest Raspbian Stretch Lite using this command:

sudo pip3 install Cython
sudo pip3 install git+https://github.com/kivy/kivy.git@master

And got this error: pasted file at february 7 2019 12_50 pm

Kivy info: pasted file at february 7 2019 12_57 pm

NOTE: I have been installing Kivy on several RPi’s for over 3 months. It has been working well, but suddenly stopped working today.

Any idea?

P.S. I had to set KIVY_GL_BACKEND environment variable to gl to get it working before.

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:9 (2 by maintainers)

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mathamcommented, Jun 13, 2019

I was having similar issues. The problem seems to be that for some reason sdl2_image is unable to load these images - I think the sdl2_image version is too old.

The solution is to install pillow. I’ll add that to the docs.

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mandoodecommented, Jun 19, 2019

@matham, thanks for responding. I checked my pip3 list, and I see Pillow (6.0.0) is already installed, but I will pull the latest and rebuild.

I did get kivy to get a window by changing the raspberry pi GL driver using raspi-config (I had to choose the legacy “G3” non-gl desktop driver so graphics are really slow).

My env settings where kivy can get a window with my current git clone are :

Screen Shot 2019-06-19 at 2 30 09 PM