Re: Future of Ruby: head for the hills

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

On Sestdiena, 3. Septembris 2005 20:10, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Found a neat quote from  Vojtech Pavlik in
> fa.linux.kernel (Sep 1, 7:23 am):
>
> ==========================================
>
> > (When) Will there ever be native kernel (and maybe
>
> XFree) support for
>
> > multiple independent keyboards?
>
> The kernel console is unlikely to ever going to have
> that - noone is interested in changing the console
> subsystem.

No Linux console experts at linuxconsole.sf.net. That's true.
None of ruby versions are 100% compatible with VT100.
IHMO because of carelessnes of me and other developers. Who
wants check out these 1001 features?

Most nearest VT100 must be Zoltan's ruby-mm tree. Zoltan reject
old ruby code and put vt->foo instead foo manualy into -mm
tree. i didn't know how wide Zoltan test VT100 compatibility.

> The current state of input device support in the
> kernel, however, allows any userspace program to
> access them independently, including keyboards.
>
> That means multi-user X and possibly a userspace
> console implementation (Jon Smirl is planning one) has
> no barriers in the kernel input device implementation
> keeping it from proceeding.

faketty is competitor only. Since year 2003 Debian and
You too have evdev input drivers for XFree and Xorg, mouse
and keyboard supported.

> The problems with multiple VGA cards, etc, are much
> harder to solve, though.
> ==============================================

Up-to-date video cards show up this trouble very very
rarely. I mean Nvidia.

> I don't know Jon Smirl, but Aivils of course already
> has such a solution with Faketty, working very well,
> thank you.

faketty just coocked.

Aivils
> So head for the hills and while you are running hope
> Aivils is running with you.