Thread: Name suggestion: Ribui instead of Ruby

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Here's my suggestion:
"Ribui" (rhymes with GUI) is Hebrew for "multi". It's
short, sounds like Ruby and says what we want.
Feedback, please...
Yitzhak Bar Geva

You might enjoy seeing the Flash animation of
Ruby/Ribui in action (still in Hebrew):

http://www.regobot.co.il/matzegetribui.htm

YBG

Here's a link to an article about a similar,
proprietary project done here in Israel for MS
Windows:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/569358.html

I spoke to the developer today. What is interesting in
his work is that he uses Nvidia dual port boards and
gets a separate session on each one.
The Nvidia drive documentation has an XConfig layout
(near the end) which describes such a scenario. I had
asked Aivils about this and he said it won't work with
Ribui (Ruby). I never tried it.
What are the chances that we can get separate sessions
on each port of an Nvidia dual-port board?
Does it require work on the part of the Xorg
developers?
What are the technicalities involved?
Yitzhak

On Thursday 28 April 2005 20:58, yitzhak bar geva wrote:
> Here's a link to an article about a similar,
> proprietary project done here in Israel for MS
> Windows:
> 
> http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/569358.html
> 
> I spoke to the developer today. What is interesting in
> his work is that he uses Nvidia dual port boards and
> gets a separate session on each one.
> The Nvidia drive documentation has an XConfig layout
> (near the end) which describes such a scenario. I had
> asked Aivils about this and he said it won't work with
> Ribui (Ruby). I never tried it.
> What are the chances that we can get separate sessions
> on each port of an Nvidia dual-port board?
> Does it require work on the part of the Xorg
> developers?
> What are the technicalities involved?
> Yitzhak

linux-ruby code was almost done in early year 2002.
linux-ruby is simplest way to start multiple local X.
Dual head cards normaly hande only single X server.
You cannot start multiple X servers on single video card.

These circumstances because i use linux-ruby.

Chinese sells windows multihead version since 2002
http://www.thinsoftinc.com/products_betwin_info.html

Aivils

On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 10:58 -0700, yitzhak bar geva wrote:
> Here's a link to an article about a similar,
> proprietary project done here in Israel for MS
> Windows:
> 
> http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/569358.html
> 
> I spoke to the developer today. What is interesting in
> his work is that he uses Nvidia dual port boards and
> gets a separate session on each one.
> The Nvidia drive documentation has an XConfig layout
> (near the end) which describes such a scenario. I had
> asked Aivils about this and he said it won't work with
> Ribui (Ruby). I never tried it.
> What are the chances that we can get separate sessions
> on each port of an Nvidia dual-port board?
> Does it require work on the part of the Xorg
> developers?
> What are the technicalities involved?

The problem is that the X server handles one (or more) *card* at a time.
Two X servers cannot share a single physical card.

The way to solve this would be to write a kernel framebuffer driver that
presents one framebuffer device to userspace for each head, and then run
two X servers that use these framebuffer devices instead of controlling
hardware directly (as they should be doing either way). The problem with
this, as far as I know, is that either the framebuffer device interface
isn't accelerated, or that there is no X server capable of using the
acceleration. I also don't think that there is a framebuffer driver that
does this with nVidia cards, but writing such a driver would probably be
the smallest subproblem involved.

At least this is my take on the situation.

Fredrik Tolf

Returning to my suggestion or renaming Ruby to Ribui
(rhymes with GUI, means "multi")...
Jean-Daniel wrote:
"Ribui"'s "diphtongue" is rather unpronouncable for
-say- French peoples."
Actually, Ribui sounds just like the French word Oui,
meaning yes! That projects a very positive feeling. In
addition, it retains a sound similar to the original,
"Ruby".
Best,
Yitzhak
--- Jean-Daniel Pauget <jd...@di...> wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, yitzhak bar geva wrote:
> 
> > Here's my suggestion:
> > "Ribui" (rhymes with GUI) is Hebrew for "multi".
> It's
> > short, sounds like Ruby and says what we want.
> > Feedback, please...
> 
>     "Ribui"'s "diphtongue" is rather unpronouncable
> for -say-
>     french peoples trying to guess how some english
> peoples
>     would pronounce it.
>     I think it's a major drawback, if in a
> conversation you say
>     "I'm using Moonlight multiscreen patched
> Xserver" most will
>     be able to google for it back home.
>     Try "Ribui" in place of "Moonlight" ... the
> difference is clear.
> 
>     PS : Moonlight stands for anything common in
> english, I have no
>     preference.
> 
> --
>     Jean-Daniel Pauget
> 
>     T&#1497;l: +33 (0) 676 952 746
>     2, rue Andr&#1497; PELCA
>     50580 Denneville-Plage
>     France
> 
> 

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, yitzhak bar geva wrote:

> Here's my suggestion:
> "Ribui" (rhymes with GUI) is Hebrew for "multi". It's
> short, sounds like Ruby and says what we want.
> Feedback, please...

    "Ribui"'s "diphtongue" is rather unpronouncable for -say-
    french peoples trying to guess how some english peoples
    would pronounce it.
    I think it's a major drawback, if in a conversation you say
    "I'm using Moonlight multiscreen patched Xserver" most will
    be able to google for it back home.
    Try "Ribui" in place of "Moonlight" ... the difference is clear.

    PS : Moonlight stands for anything common in english, I have no
    preference.

--
    Jean-Daniel Pauget

    T=E9l: +33 (0) 676 952 746
    2, rue Andr=E9 PELCA
    50580 Denneville-Plage
    France

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