From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 12 13:42:14 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA14846 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 13:42:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bright.fx.genx.net (bright.fx.genx.net [206.64.4.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA14839 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 13:42:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by bright.fx.genx.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA88005; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 16:46:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: bright.fx.genx.net: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 16:46:40 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@bright.fx.genx.net To: Chuck Robey cc: Daniel Eischen , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XiG Motif - FreeBSD ELF In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Brian Feldman wrote: > > > If others, like me, would really like an ELF version of Motif and the > > > Accelerated X server, please send your requests to Xig (sales@xig.com). > > > > > > Feel free to re-post this to another list if -current isn't deemed > > > appropriate. > > > > I started bugging them about it months ago, and last month I finally got > > advised that they had no plans to introduce any elf Motif at all. Until > > then, they gave me that same response I got from you. I wasn't > > endlessly bugging them, just a polite reminder about once every 45 days. > > They sound like a lost cause to me. You can forward this to them if you > > want. Xig says that they may support ELF, but aren't sure. Someone needs to keep them informed, as a sales rep was happy to tell me that 2.2.8 support was coming soon :/ They have a minute chance of considering DGA support. Something i don't understand that well... "So your X server is really fast except when applications need it to be blindingly fast???" GIMME MY DGA! :( -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message