> > there is no reason why linux can not have a graphics viewer working > in vesa mode. these tools can be used outside any GUI i.e. in text > mode. i am not quite acquainted with graphics in linux. so can't be > very assertive. yet i am looking into. all of you also know that > during boot up in vesa mode a small picture of tux is visible on > the top-left of the screen. who shows this? kernel or init? what > may be it is, it must have the rendering code. combining that > functionality with other image tools on linux can produce a very > barebones yet powerful > linux based slide show system on a cd along with sound and voice. > i am personally interested in taking it as a project. is anyone > else interested? >
the graphics shown during bootup in the vesa (framebuffer) mode is a 16 color picture. 16 colors as such are very less for any presentation graphics. But as far as i remember, the svga library can be used to get any resolution and colors. So, basically writing a program to display slides (pictures and text) should not be very tough. I have written programs to view bare BMP files in linux and files with 24bit colors can also be viewed in the cosole mode using the SVGA library. The point is when there are software like openoffice.org and staroffice and kpresenter already there which are anyways much more powerful, why would anyone write another presentation software ? If i remember correctly, i saw a software a few years back which was a console based presentation software. Sharninder Singh National Institute Of Management, Calcutta -------------------------------------------------- 'M.C.S.E - Minesweeper Consultant & Solitaire Expert' -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
