linux console graphics

[Pete Shinners]

Radovan Garabik wrote:
> eav <eav at ifrance.com> wrote:
>  : I am currently working on a project needing a graphical interface, 
>  : supposed to run quickly on quite modest PC (first pentium generation) 
>  : with linux or a *bsd.
> 
>  : What can Python do form me ? I've been considering projects such as 
>  : pygame - but it seems that SDL can't be run from the console. Am I wrong?
> 
> it can. In svga or framebuffer mode, or even aalib :-)
> The question is if pygame supports it - but I think it should.

pygame supports it as well as SDL will support it. just make sure the 
environment variable SDL_DISPLAYDEVICE is set before initializing 
anything in pygame.

this may answer some questions, from the sdl linux faq
http://www.libsdl.org/faq/FAQ-Linux.html#LINUX_5