Rumor has it that Roger Merchberger may have mentioned these words: >DirectFB is short for Direct Frame Buffer, and allows access to a graphical >frame buffer system in *nix (and I think maybe MacOSX) from a text prompt >without going through X. > >Anyone know of a module to access this through Python? I've googled for it, >but didn't know if anyone here knew about something along these lines.
Yea, I like talking to myself... This is just fer the archives anywho... The DirectFB can make use of the SDL which does access the hardware directly, and I did find a python module for libSDL, but it looked like it hadn't been supported for 3-4 years... according to the webpage, all of the functionality of that module was built into a module called PyGame. PyGame makes direct access to the hardware possible through SDL or DirectFB (altho for some reason the DirectFB component couldn't compile on my system. :-/ ) and with other SDL modules supports blitting graphics and TTF fonts directly to the framebuffer. It took a little work getting it working, but now I can print text & graphics of any size to the framebuffer without needing X to do it (and X is kinda limited when you're talking 200-pixel text rendering in an xterm... PyGame does it easily as it doesn't have xterm's restraints.). Anyway, I hope this helps someone else out there... Laterz, Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger | "Profile, don't speculate." SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers | Daniel J. Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] | _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
