Re: Kernel summit/Desktop summit.

[Aivils <ai...@un...>]

On Tuesday 18 May 2004 21:57, James Simmons wrote:
> 
> Hi folks!!!
> 
> 	For July 19 and 20th I will be attending the Desktop Summit as 
> well as the kernel summit. The kernel summit is unfortunely by 
> invitation only :-( but the desktop one is open to the public. To the 
> people that have worked hard on this project let me know if you want to go 
> to the desktop summit. If you don't have the money I will work something 
> out for you.

These summits befall over sea!

> I plan to give a demo of Ruby there!!!! So in the next few  
> weeks I'm going to set up a box to send to the conference. 

	Current CVS contain ugly VGA driver (?) bug - tty1 cursor lost positon
after vt switch. I have no idea where that bug lives.
You must patch or hide with fbdev.

	gpm - Your tree breaks (/dev/vc/0) . 
	
	/dev/vcs* - I don't know how to use it, rather that is broken.

> My goals for the demo are to have a 4 desktop system. 

4 desktop system, seems, well tested is Nvidia adapters only, with closed
source drivers. I agree usage of easy sytems, where each user have
soundcard too. Sound setup is hard, because each program use own
sound driver.

> I like to get KDE  
> running on one desktop and Gnome on another.

gdm allow choose session. Most psyhodelic is full screen vmware
session with lovely M$ inside.

> Then the other 2 heads would  
> be a Embedded JVM running and a regular console.

xf86 stops VGA output. looks like PC legacy ports used for VGA stoping.
This feature does not distrub starting number of xf86 and i never
try locate it.

Of course ruby needs for good "marketing manager" , which tell anybody
about benefits of ruby.

Aivils