From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Nov 22 12:57:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76E8814FB2; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 12:57:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA04343; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 13:24:15 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 13:24:15 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Brett Glass Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: False Alarm: Xi Graphics representative was mistaken! In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19991122114841.042cd950@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Brett Glass wrote: > All: > > Fortunately, it turns out that the Xi Graphics representative who > told me that they were dropping FreeBSD support was mistaken. Her > original message to me said: Brett, as a member of the press you ought to be a bit more sensitive about your source verification. ;-) FreeBSD's usebase is growing and the maverick 'advocates' can really cause some PR damage, especially when fed incorrent information. I myself was about to draft a 'what the heck' message to XiG, considering that I've got thier X server on back-order. You also should note that XiG sales people really need to be clued in a bit more, the one I talked to said that there was "no way" they'd be supporting FreeBSD 3.x. *sigh* Aparantly they do, they just don't know it. :) -Alfred > > >Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 11:18:31 -0700 > >From: Cindy Miley > >Reply-To: cindy@xig.com > >Organization: Xi Graphics, Inc. > >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) > >MIME-Version: 1.0 > >To: Brett Glass > >Subject: Re: Appian multi-head cards > >References: <4.2.0.58.19991120173144.046389d0@localhost> > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >X-UIDL: aca36a32b5f5c6d96690c6a7d42eaa10 > > > >Brett, > > > >Yes, we support several Appian stock cards. There is a list at > >www.xig.com/Pages/MXCardsAppian.html for single-head support and > >www.xig.com/Pages/MXCardsAppian.html for multi-head support. I am not > >sure what she was referring to as far as a specially modified card. To > >my knowledge, it would actually require custom development to support a > >modified card. However, we no longer support BSD in our retail > >products. We have been in discussions with BSDI about including > >Accelerated-X on their next version, but I do not know if this will > >actually happen. > > > >We do support several versions of Linux. Thank you for your interest in > >Accelerated-X. Please let me know if you have any further questions. > > Since this message came from an official representative of the company, > I took them at their word. But their representative apparently was mistaken: > when I actually called the company to ask WHY they would have done such a > thing, I was told that what was actually dropped was their X server for > BSDI's BSD/OS. > > Whew. I apologize for the false alarm. > > --Brett Glass > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message