XFree86 3.3.6 as built by Red Hat will not correctly handle an S3 card using the SVGA server (this is needed as the S3 server cannot properly handle some corner cases in X11). It finds the S3 chipset then prints what look like a pile of debugging messages from another driver (RENDITION.. printing PCI idents). After it finishes throwing up it has reverted wrongly back to the generic VGA driver.
Apparently a hardware compatibility issue.. weeeeiiirrd