zgv might be just what you are looking for (no X required). I say "might", because it doesn't work with all SVGA video cards, however with an older machine, the chances should be pretty good (although I never have had very good luck with Compaq boxen):
Package: zgv Priority: optional Section: graphics Installed-Size: 403 Maintainer: Ryszard Lach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 5.6-1 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libjpeg62, libpng2 (>= 1.0.12), libtiff3g, svgalibg1, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4) Conflicts: svgalib1-libggi2 Filename: pool/main/z/zgv/zgv_5.6-1_i386.deb Size: 211914 MD5sum: c21f49aec462a528bfc5bd4f5d6f1ab7 Description: SVGAlib graphics viewer 'zgv' is a graphics viewer, based around SVGAlib, which can display GIF87a, GIF89a, JPEG/JFIF, PNG, PBM/PGM/PPM, BMP, and TGA files on a standard VGA and most SVGAs, with a full-screen file selector front-end. It can also be used as a simple command-line file viewer, with 'zgv filename', to do slide shows of a list of files, and so on. On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 10:14:56AM -0400, Drew Cohan wrote: > Hi, > > > > I'm asking for suggestions on the following situation: > > > > I have an very old laptop, a Compaq Aero 33/c, with 12 MB of RAM and a > ~230 MB hard drive. I like this machine because of its small form > factor. All I want to do with this machine is to have it continuously > display jpeg images one after the other as in a slideshow. And I would > like to use debian to do it. > > > > My thoughts have been to install a basic, no frills version of debian, > use PPP, add X, add a slideshow program and call it a day. > Unfortunately, I can only get so far. The machine only has a floppy > drive (no cd-rom drive) but does have access to the internet via an > external 56k modem. So far I've been able to install potato 2.2r7 via > floppies (this was before 3.0 came out) and I've been able to trim a > little off of that using dselect (removing the telnet packages for > example) to save on disk space. This leaves me with a functional linux > system with the most basic commands, 70MB of hard drive space, and a > working PPP connection to the internet. > > > > So at this point I try to install X via apt-get install x-window-system > and it tells me sure, I can do that, but it's going to take up the rest > of your hard drive space (40 mb in .debs, 70 mb unpacked). This would > leave no room for images or installing a slideshow program so I cancel > it. > > > > So what it boils down to is this: > > > > 1. Do I have to install X see images? > > 2. Will I have to install a window manager on top of X to see images? > (or just use xdm, maybe answered my own question) > > 3. Is there an alternative to using the full X package that makes sense > for my machine? I've seen some stuff about Nano-X, Tiny-X (purportedly > included in XFree86 now anyway). These packages don't seem to be in > debian stable via apt-get. Basically, I'd need gcc to compile XFree86 on > this machine and I'm not sure I could get it on there without exhausting > my hdd space first (don't know, haven't tried). Most frustrating part is > that I can't seem to find any information on how to use/install/make > work nano/tiny X. > > 4. I've seen some things on SVGA lib, but no details. Is that something > that can help me here? What is it, how to use it/install it? > > 5. Am I going to just have to develop all this stuff on another machine > and port the results over to this humble laptop? > > > > TIA. > > > > Drew >
