re cview answers in article c mv n t rahul net bryanw rahul net bryan woodworth writes in apr imag fr schaefer imag imag fr arno schaefer writes sorry bryan this is not quite correct remember the vgalib package that comes with linux sls it will switch to vga x x mode without xwindows so at least it is possible to write a gif viewer under linux however i don t think that there exists a similar svga package and viewing gifs in x is not very nice no vgalib amazing i guess it was lost in all those subdirs thanks for correcting me it doesn t sound very appealing though only x i m glad it wasn t something major i missed tommy frandsen s vgalib which is probably what you re talking about will do the standard vga modes some tweaked modes and then the tseng et super vga modes i have an et and i m viewing gif s at x i have a lousy small monitor with dpg view on linux i think i had to change some constants in the dpg view sources to make it use the et k modes vgalib s sources seem to be designed for easy addition of new super vga support each mode is an array of register values and there s a program that dumps an array declaration of this kind describing the current mode haven t tried it though btw my version of vgalib is kennu mits mdata fi try linux a free unix by linus torvalds for s read comp os linux or ask me by email if you like for more information you can run x tex gnu emacs and much more on top of a nice posix environment
