The matrox drivers are open source now arent they?
"Jeffrey B. Siegal" wrote:
> Max-Wilhelm Bruker wrote:
> > I wouldn't consider a Voodoo3 emulation good, as the Voodoo3 drivers for
> > Windows 9x are extremely buggy. I'd rather take a standard adapter which
> > most systems have drivers for by default (no need to fetch them from the
> > manufacturer), such as an ATI or something like that and later add a
> > Voodoo1 or Voodoo2 non-graphics card for 3D acceleration.
>
> To propose another specific, I've always been happy with Matrox
> devices. Their drivers for Windows 9x are excellent. Their drivers for
> Windows NT are fair, and Matrox devices have always had excellent
> support in XFree86.
>
> The XFree86 issue is especially relevent, because good support in XF86
> means that good documentation of the hardware level is available (in the
> XF86 sources if nowhere else).
>
> Ultimately, however, one important deciding factor would be the
> evaluation of the actual hardware interfaces in terms of their
> suitability for efficient emulation/virtualization.