On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 2:00 AM, Mike Hollis wrote: > I was looking at the code for svgalib, a program I love because I can > play quake on the console and watch movies with mplayer without > Xorg plus it pretty easy to learn and to write console graphics.
I've had mixed luck with svgalib. It worked fine on an old Sony laptop, but my main desktop with ATI All-In-Wonder (PCI-Express) card just can't seem to work with it. I tried several settings changes with svgalib and just couldn't find a way to use it on that system. I have been looking into using directfb with various libraries in order to get progarms to work outside of X. That solution works for my desktop, but unfortunately, probably won't work for the laptop which has an older video card (neomagic). SDL works with directfb. WxWidgets is working on a directfb port. I also found an older version of fltk that's meant to be used with directfb. Pdcurses also works with SDL and directfb, although ncurses works fine directly in console mode. Keep thinking that with the right libraries one could make a pretty nice distribution that doesn't need to use X, but could still be used for basic desktop functionality like word processing, audio and basic graphics and video editing/viewing. If anyone runs across other GUI libraries that work fine in console mode or outside of X, would be very interested in hearing about them. Sincerely, Laura http://www.distasis.com/cpp -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
