On Thu, Dec 18, 2008t 08:07:46AM +0200, arimo at iki.fi wrote: > I havesed so far svgalib and frame buffer but are there other >lternatives i can look for. svgalib will probably not work on 64 bitystems, and frame buffer support is IMO quiteare. cvidix isnother solution (and it is quite fast), but it only works with rather old graphics cards. Usuallyou'd go with an X server (xorg) and use -vo xv (or if that is notvailable -vo x11), but setting up an X server can be a bit of a painnless it is set up automatically during installation (as almost all distributions do nowadays).