[SDL] Can SDL run without X?

[shamju joseph]

--- Bob Pendleton <bob at pendleton.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 19:04 +0300, Vassilis Virvilis
> wrote:
> > shamju joseph wrote:
> > > Hi 
> > > Can SDL run without X on PC? I mean on linux
> > > framebuffer?
> > 
> > Yes it runs on fbdev.
> > 
> > > If not any plan for framebuffer support in near
> > > future?
> > 
> > I don't know about SDL1.3 but SDL1.2 works. The
> > real question is how SDL1.3 is going to have
> > multiwindow support in single buffer environments
> > like fbdev?
> 
> It isn't. You only get multiple windows on systems
> that support multiple
> windows. Otherwise you pretty much have to provide a
> complete windowing
> system in SDL and that is *not* going to happen.
> 
> The question is a lot like asking "how is SDL going
> to provide sound on
> a system that doesn't have a sound card?" Answer, it
> isn't going to do
> that. SDL can only provide access to services that
> are already available
> on the target system.
> 
> 		Bob Pendleton
 

Is fbdev the xfree86 driver for framebuffer? If there
is no X, how come fbdev driver available? Can SDL work
on framebuffer device /dev/fb0 directly? I have fb0
available in  my system, but how I enable fbdev or
check its availability?

thanks
shamju joseph




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