Re: viewing jpg files on text terminal

[Bill Kalebaugh <billk@lvnworth.com>]

Bijan Soleymani wrote:

> Paul Morgan <paulswm@earthlink.net> writes:
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> > On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 09:33:21 -0500, Paul Morgan wrote:
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> > > Gauri, a text terminal is a *text* terminal.  The Linux GUI interface is
> > > X.  So you need to be using a viewer in X.
> > >
> > > Linux is not like the old DOS OSes which ran programs which took over the
> > > video with their own custom device-specific driver coding.
> > >
> > >      
> > Please ignore my post, I am incorrect. Sorry.
> >    
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> Well you're semi-incorrect :)
> If you had a real text terminal (dec vt100, etc.) then yeah you wouldn't
> be able to do it.
> But the linux console isn't limited to just text.
>
> Bijan
>  
Also if you are using a AGP slot I do think you can use the "zgv" 
program, as it wants a svga card.
Works good in my computer that has a svga card running 2.4.23 woody but 
will not work in my
G4 MX nVIDIA computer running 2.6.1 woody.

Bill K