One of your other options is SDL's video component. Keep in mind that SDL can only be used (by itself) for 2D graphics. If you want 3D graphics, though, SDL works well with OpenGL. For the purposes of ...
To start off, I'm assuming that you've read Ernest Pazera's introduction-and-setup articles about SDL (well, not really, since I haven't read them... but you get the idea). I just want you to have the ...