hi i have good news i have the 968 data book thear are 2 books
the 964 book and the 968 you need both boot as the 968 book 
just has the new registers add to the 964

i will see if i can get a scaner and may be able to send you the
book or something like that or i can give to info out of the books


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 2:03 PM
Subject: S3 968 documentation


> The XFree4 S3 driver doesn't work quite right on my #9 Motion 771.
> The bottom 5th of the screen is not addressed properly in some
> cases.  If I start the X server with no background bitmap or windows,
> the "old" contents (from a rum with XF86_S3) of the frame buffer is
> displayed in that region.  Windows seem to draw correctly there, but
> also draw into the top portion of the screen.  This seems to only occur
> in modes that require more than 2MB of RAM.
> 
> I've tried contacting the driver author and have even pinged this list
> in the past with no luck.  My hope now is to find sufficient information
> on the S3 968 so that I can fix this myself.  I've already spent some
> time reviewing both the 3.3.6 driver that works and the XFree4 driver
> that doesn't.  Unfortunately, both tend to use "magic numbers" for almost
> all register modifications with little or no comments (What ever happend
> to writing self-documenting code with constants that *mean* something -
> ARGHHH!).  This makes it difficult to get far without chip docs.  8-)
> 
> Does anyone know where I might get docs for this chip?
> 
> Thanks,
> Justin
> 
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