>"switching to graphic card mode" != X I didn't say that, or impy it.
>You don't have to run X to see images. That's what SVGAlib buys you. >You're technically correct that in text mode you don't get graphics, >but you can get graphics on the console without X. Changing graphics mode in order to do images would mean having to keep track of the current console mode, i.e., the text already on the screen. Either that or it just switches to graphics mode, runs the program to display the image with the command line no longer avialble until the user quicks viewing the image and returns to text mode. So, bottom line, I was right in that images can't be viewed from the command line and stay in that text mode, but wrong in that nothing stops an executable from switching the mode to display graphical material. MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ The ASCII [I'm just the one who beat him off... Repelled him] \ / Ribbon Campaign [would perhaps be the better phrase. Spike 2/18/03] X Against Visit - URL: http://vidiot.com/ / \ HTML Email -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
