On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Dos-Man 64<[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, it has gotten better, but I'm not your typical user :) > > I've got an nvidia card 5200 GFORCE FX graphics gard. It spits out S- > VIDEO. I use a converter to convert this to A/V and run into my TV. No > monitors here. I've been using a TV for like 4 years now. Both of my > Ubuntu and Knoppix Live distros both hate it. I get a blank screen > when xwindows is finished loading. I'm going to have to pull out my > graphics card and find my monitor when I finally decide to switch over > permanently.
Ouch. You shouldn't need to pull out your graphics card AND your monitor. Your card will work fine if you have a monitor hooked up to it. To get it working with tv-only, you probably have to tweak the config manually... which is hard when you have no display. > Well, I have tried out lazarus for windows. It seems to work well. I'm > just not sure which files I need to download for the linux version. I would expect the package to be fairly self-contained. A .deb file (among others) appears to be available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/ >> As for porting, you could look into wine. I don't mean just running >> them under wine, I'm refering to linking against the wine libraries as >> stand-ins for the windows libraries you would normally compile >> against. > > > Is Wine free, or something you have to pay for? Wine is free and open source. There's some commercial versions, but they are mainly for games and apps that require directx. Somehow I don't that's a problem for you. http://www.winehq.org/docs/winelib-guide/index > I'm an excellent C programmer, so I'm not anticipating having problems > writing linux software. I have written linux programs in the past > also, but mostly command line programs. It's just going to take a > while for me to learn the ins and outs of xwindows. I used to have a > book for Linux GUI programming. I think I got rid of it at some point. > I should have held on to that. Never get rid of a computer book. I > should have learned that by now. Given a strong leaning toward C, GTK+ is what you want: http://www.gtk.org/ There is very very little reason to code directly against the x windows API, and I'm sure those few reasons will not apply to you (you aren't writing a window manager, are you?). ~Ryan -- http://rmgraham.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/rmgraham --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
