VGA Programming for Linux

[evac-q8r]

I would like to do some VGA programming and I'm looking for some simple "Hello World!" programs to get started. Upon doing a Google search many of the example tutorial packages are oriented for compilers other than gcc like Borland, etc. Can anybody help me get started.

Thanks a Million,

EVAC

[bwkaz]

svgalib maybe?

You can't get access to the VGA registers directly (I don't think), because you can undermine system stability by programming the registers incorrectly. (Perhaps root can do it, but I'm not sure on that. I know svgalib requires your program to be setuid root so that it can do some things at startup to modify the state of the current terminal; I don't think that's related to the VGA registers though.)