From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Nov 22 10:56:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5045714BD5; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 10:56:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA06375; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 11:55:25 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991122114841.042cd950@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 11:55:01 -0700 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: False Alarm: Xi Graphics representative was mistaken! Cc: jkh@cdrom.com, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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: >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-advocacy" in the body of the message