Nathan England said:
>
> I can't remember the name of the program, but there is a non-X svga
> image  viewer that you could use granted the vga chipset supports the
> linux frame  buffer.
> -- Time to look now...
>
> svgalib: svgalib (Super-VGA Graphics Library)
> svgalib:
> svgalib: A video hardware graphics library, based on VGAlib 1.2.
> Supports  most
> svgalib: video graphics adaptors, at least in VGA modes.  Contains
> additional svgalib: support for higher resolution modes with cards based
> on ALI2301, ARK svgalib: Logic ARK1000PV/2000PV, ATI SVGA, ATI Mach32,
> ATI Mach64, Chips and svgalib: Technologies, Cirrus Logic GD542x/3x,
> Genoa GVGA6400, Hercules svgalib: Stingray 64/Video, Oak Technologies
> OTI-037/67/77/87, S3, Trident  TVGA
> svgalib: 8900C/9000/9440, Tseng ET4000/ET4000W32, and some other
> chipsets. svgalib:
>
> This is from a slackware package.
> Good Luck!

Thank you for the pointer.  If I do run a stripped down Linux on an older
laptop, it would be good to not have to run an X server in order to
display the pictures.

Alan



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