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On Thu, 21 Apr 2011, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> The P54C (LTE 5280) works with svgalib and has no framebuffer.
>
> The P55C (Thinkpad 560X) scrambles things with svgalib (zgv)
>
> The AMD-K6-2 (Presario 1200) does not work with svgalib.


> fbjpeg illegal instruction with all three.  It works on newer desktops
> where svgalib does not work with LCD monitor (out of range).  Probably it
> could be compiled to worth with i586 laptops.

I edited the Makefile to optimize for i586 and fbjpeg now works.
http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/libFB-0.2.5-i586-glibc236.tgz
http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/libFB-0.2.5-i686-glibc225.tgz

There are other programs based on libFB for viewing pdfs etc.

These older computers are more useful than I thought.  With broadband
I don't need USB for file transfer.

Sindi