you might try Xconfigurator, which I believe is text based, so it won't 
kick you out because of weird video
marcel

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>  Hi! I could use some help getting my PB G3 to work with X Windows. Its 
> a Pismo (PowerBook FireWire 500mhz) and I can't seem to get X to start 
> on it. I have Debian 2.2r3 Linux on there, and the X server 4.1.0.
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>  Everytime I try to startx I get an error 'No display' and the EE is 
> that no driver can be found for my ATI video card. Also, I can't get my 
> trackpad to work either. Now I am a newbie so I would really love step 
> by step help, I know it's annoying, but I promise to learn fast. I tried 
> to do an XFree86 -configure, but that just stops with a fatal error 
> about the video card. Any ideas? Anybody have this working right now 
> that may be able to send me their config file so I can see how it is 
> supposed to be done? Or maybe a website that has one (I've been 
> searching google for about 2 days now)
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>   Thanks a million guys (and gals!)
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>        Terence
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