OpenEuphoria

Re: Linux graphics

• Posted by Pete Eberlein <xseal at HARBORSIDE.COM> Feb 22, 2000
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On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 21:34:17 -0500, Irv Mullins <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> wrote:

>On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Steve Mosher wrote:
>>
>>         Well, that's the best attitude. You learn lots that way. If you
>> solve the problem I would be very interested to hear your solution, since
>> I'm itching to buy a lappy soon -- and I haven't seen a laptop ever run
>> linux properly for reasons related to the display.
>
>One which works just fine with Linux is the WinBook  XL (imagine that!).
>
>Irv

Two others are the ancient Samsung sens 800 and the very nice Sony VAIO
Z505RX.

But, back to the subject of Linux graphics...

My Neil2 graphics library works in Linux as well as DOS and Win32 (well
win32 is still really bad)
If run on Linux, it will try to use X in a window if it can connect to the
display, otherwise it will use SVGAlib.  You can rip anything you want from
the Neil2 source code that suits you.  Most of the time it just sets up a
linear buffer in memory that it can peek/poke directly.

For the Xlib programming, I found a great source at
http://www.emi.u-bordeaux.fr/~turpeau/xlib.html

Regards,
Pete Eberlein <xseal at harborside.com>
http://www.harborside.com/~xseal/euphoria/