Matrox doesn't support its cards under the latest linux - xorg 7 version. I'll never buy a matrox product again.
We are looking to do video-conferencing from our Wyse thin clients in the future - will these cards give us better multimedia performance as well? - Also, does anybody know how much these cards retail for (price for hardware and software) ? Thanks.
I may be missing something here, but everything that I think is being acclaimed by this matrox card has been totally doable in a linux X Windowing System environment anyway. Who needs it. But, as for general support of matrox in linux, I'm sure they're seeing that it's advantageous to include better driver support for this vastly growing market.
I doubt it. There is only one word for Matrox Linux support - terrible. If you want multi head cards you are MUCH better off going for NVidia NVS 280/285 or 400/440. The drivers may not be open source, but Nvidia is actively developing and supporting them. And most importantly, they work. ATI may be OK too. I havn't tried them, so I can't comment.
Matrox have released updated Linux drivers for G series with support for Xorg 7.0 (but it seems not for 7.1) and 64 bit support. About time too.