Small Web Browser?

[Leo J Mauler]

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 15:28:30 -0600 (CST) Gerald Combs
<gerald at ethereal.com> writes:
> On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
>
> > On Sunday 23 November 2003 01:03 pm, Gerald Combs wrote:
> >
> > > Links (version 2) has a graphics mode.  You can invoke it with
> "-device x"
> > > from X.  It also supports JavaScript:
> >
> > >
> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~clock/twibright/links/features.html
> >
> > Ok, you're missing the point here:  What if you DON'T have or want
> XWindows?
>
>
> And you didn't read the feature page above, or you skipped bullet
> item #2.
> It says:
>
>   "Links runs in graphics mode (mouse required) on X Window System
> (UN*X,
>    Cygwin), SVGAlib, Linux Framebuffer, OS/2 PMShell, AtheOS GUI"
>
> bam:/home/gerald> links -help
> links [options] URL
> Options are:
>
>  -g
>   Run in graphics mode.
>
>  -no-g
>   Run in text mode (overrides previous -g).
>
>  -driver <driver name>
>   Graphics driver to use. Drivers are: x, svgalib, fb, directfb,
> pmshell, atheos.
>   Available drivers depend on your operating system and available
> libraries.
>
>  -mode <graphics mode>
>   Graphics mode. For SVGALIB it is in format COLUMNSxROWSxCOLORS --
>   for example 640x480x256, 800x600x64k, 1024x768x16M32
>
>  [ ... ]

Okay, tried Links with the options:

links -g -driver svgalib -mode 800x600x256

and

links -g -driver svgalib -mode 640x480x256

Each time the system responds with:

svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissions.  (which file should I chmod
permissions?)

If I try to run the same commands as root, I get:

Segmentation fault.

Typing

links

by itself with no command line arguments results with a blank screen and
a single flashing cursor near the top of the screen.  If I press Ctrl-C I
can get out of the blank screen and back to a shell prompt.

Incidentally, I can get X to run at 800x600x256 using the generic VESA
driver (with the aforementioned blank screen upon exiting X).

This may just be a case of a great piece of software and inadequate
system resources.