pygame running in cygwin - no available video device?

I am using Windows 7 Professional 64-bit with Cygwin version:

CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 1.7.9(0.237/5/3) 2011-03-29 10:10 i686 Cygwin

I installed pygame version 1.9.1-3 using cygwinports. So the cygwin setup automatically installed all my dependencies including libsdl version 1.2.14-1.

I tried testing out a game written in pygame and I'm getting this error:

  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "Main.py", line 959, in <module>
    main()
  File "Main.py", line 25, in main
    windowSurfaceObj = pygame.display.set_mode((1280,720), DOUBLEBUF)
pygame.error: No available video device

I searched this error online and many people said to try setting SDL_VIDEODRIVER to "windib". I have done so and actually printed the environment variable in the python game just to make sure it was being set properly and it is in fact "windib".

So I am pretty lost on what else to try; is there a dependency I'm yet missing?

I believe this may be related to a cygwin update I performed which now requires X windows for almost all GUI and graphical applications. I will try making this an X window and see what happens.

Solution

Due to a cygwin update that seems to require X windows for almost all GUI's, making an X window server solved this issue.

Install X11's xinit and xorg-server required packages from your cygwin.exe installer.

Follow the instructions here https://x.cygwin.com/ or here https://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/setup.html