last update:          Mon Jan 18 23:15:33 GMT 1993

Q: It don't work

A1: Uncompress your f*cking fonts and run mkfontdir on them, compressed fonts
    don't work. (XS3 is not alone, try it on a sparc...).

A2: Use a Xconfig based on the one here, it won't understand the XFree86 
   extensions.

A3: run startx >& /err.log ; sync ; sync
  read the log file and fix the problem.

Q: Some areas of the display get corrupt.

A1:  The server wrongly assumes you are using a virtual width == 1024, some
functions, notably bitbliting assume this.  

A2:  You have a virtual size larger than 1024x768. The S3 can't do widths
greater than 1024 (in 256 colors), and the screen beyond 1024x768 is used as
a cache, thus anything cached will come out corrupt. This restriction might
be removed for 801 based cards with > 1MB of ram.

Q: The server sometimes locks up!

A: try changing any bios options you have for the ISA bus wait states, also
try disabling/enabling the turbo option on your card.  This seems to happen
on 924 based cards, if you find a solution please tell me.

Q: My modem/terminal goes funny when I run XS3.

A: There appears to be some problem with COM4 and some S3 cards, use a 
different port address for com4 if you can.

Q: It only runs when I am root

A: like XFree86, the binary must be setuid root.

Jon.