On Jan 25, 10:25 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I agree that SDL is probably the best choice but for the sake of > > completeness, Gtk can (at least in theory - I've never tried it) be > > built against directfb and run without X. > > from the Pygame Introduction: Pygame is a Python extension library > that wraps the SDL library and it's helpers. So you mean, Pygame can > run without X? > > BTW I have nothing against X, I just have not experiences on the GUI > field, so my feeling was it can run faster without X on the 500MHz AMD > Geode CPU. > > Petr
The problem is not with x: you should be able to run x just fine with only 133MHZ and a few megs of ram. The performance issues on such a machine come from things like kde and gnome. use one of the simpler window managers. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
