how to start with simple SDL programming?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  having never done any SDL programming before (so be gentle), what
would i need to do to get started in terms of loading framebuffer
support for my first program?

  currently, on this laptop, i have perfectly serviceable video with:

$ lsmod | grep radeon
radeon                509536  2
ttm                    42256  1 radeon
drm_kms_helper         25456  1 radeon
drm                   172288  5 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper
radeonfb               75128  0
fb_ddc                  2464  1 radeonfb
i2c_algo_bit            6068  2 radeon,radeonfb
i2c_core               28608  8 radeon,drm,radeonfb,fb_ddc,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_dev,videodev,i2c_piix4
$

  i also have a "radeonfb" loadable module which i'm assuming i'm
going to need.  or am i?  there's certainly enough simple SDL examples
out there to get started, i just want to make sure i have the
underlying functionality in place for my first sample program to run.
thoughts?  or am i going about this the wrong way?

rday
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