Re: Standard way of graphics in Linux

Herbert Kleebauer wrote:

No, I don't consider high level toolkits. I want to play around
at the lowest level using assembly code.

The lowest level you can use, is the one, the kernel gives you.
That are the syscalls. Linux is a multitasking operating
systems, which means, you can't just manipulate each and every
pice of the hardware like you want. Sorry, it's just not
possible. The kernel is responsible for the low level stuff,
you're doing high level.

The lowest level you could go would be svgalib to get the video
memory mapped into your program to play with. The niext higher
level would be DirectFB. And if you're really going to work
serious, that X11 and eventually OpenGL.

Wolfgang Draxinger
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