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README - iiview for Linux/Unix - by Cinek

Hi,

For impatient people:

Type in: "make" or "make withfb" or "make withfbonly" (depends on your system and your preferences)

make            - X-Window supportonly
                  This is default for all platforms.

make withfb     - X-Window and framebuffer support (read below)
                  This is for Linux framebuffer

make withfbonly - framebuffer support only

                  This is for people who don't want to have
                  a dependency with X on slim boxes

make install

This will install iiview in /usr/local/bin Optionally, you can move the file ./bin/iiview to an appropriate directory.

This version runs on other systems, too I hope:

Linux kernel >= 2.2.0 ! (Intel)
FreeBSD 5.1 (Intel)

Required libraries:
- libjpeg, libncurses (for framebuffer support) - libtiff, libpng, libz

If you cannot compile:

For other distributions or non-default settings, it's required to set the paths for include and library files properly. See: "Makefile" and the man pages about gcc.
(You can try to "locate" the required includes and libs.)

You will need to adjust some variables. Please look inside the Makefile, there are some hints how to do that.

Usage

Pressing 'H' while running iiview will
give you some hints about the functions.

Some words about FRAMEBUFFER:

To use framebuffer-device, you should at least have the kernel version 2.1.36 (try to get >2.2.0). Enable the framebuffer-support in the configuration. Make sure you use graphics displaying MORE THAN 256 colors, so that you don't need palette operations. (256 colors are NOT SUPPORED)

See the directory /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb for further details about setting up the frambuffer device.

Currently iiview uses the framebuffer device /dev/fb0 as default device. You can select other devices by setting the FRAMEBUFFER environment variable.

If the device doesn't exist, create it according to the Linux kernel documentation.

Problems with FRAMEBUFFER ?

Then you are forced to "make" only... :( No framebuffer, no fun ...

After first start the file ".iiviewrc" will be created in your home directory.
Nothing special about it. It only saves the last window coordinates from the X-session.

When something is wrong with the coordinates in X, try to edit or delete ~/.iiviewrc.

Have fun
Cinek

I hope, everything works.
If not, take a look at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/iiview and report the problem, please.