I believe that either you are missing a driver in your kernel, or haven't 
loaded it if set as a module.
On Thursday 04 May 2006 9:41 am, Mark M. Hart wrote:
> I just did an emerge on Xorgautoconfig and ran the command, but the
> xorg.conf file it makes doesn't work - it tells me that ATI(0) Adapter has
> not been initialized, and Screen(s) found, but none have a usable
> configuration.
>
> It sets Mode 1024x768 at several depths, which I can live with, and default
> mode of 16, which I can also live with.  Now if I could just get it to work
> ...
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark M. Hart
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Gurvich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 4:59 AM
> To: gentoo-ppc-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] ATI configuration?
>
> There is an ebuild Xorgautoconfig specifically for this purpose.  The
> generated xorg.conf needs some slight adjustments but seems to give good
> results.
>
> On Thursday 04 May 2006 7:34 am, Mark M. Hart wrote:
> > I have a beige G3 desktop 233mhz with 512M ram that has an ATI chipset on
> > the motherboard and an ATI chipset in a PCI VGA card (which the monitor
> > is attached to).  When I use xorgconfig I have to use fbdev as the ati
> > choice will not work on testing.  This gives me a 1280x1024 screen which
> > works well on a 17” monitor, but the colors are all wrong.
> >
> >
> >
> > When I use Xorg –configure I get a working configuration with the ati
> > driver, but the screen is (maybe) 640x480 and that’s it.  I’ve tried
> > merging the two files in every combination I can think of, and am not
> > getting anywhere.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your help!
> >
> >
> >
> > Mark M. Hart
>
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