THere seems to be a typo in macppc's /usr/X11/README Jan
--- README.orig Thu Feb 18 11:14:56 2016 +++ README Thu Feb 18 11:15:25 2016 @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ hardware. If your hardware is not properly autodetect or not supported as you wish, you will have to create a configuration file. -The 'r128 and 'ati' drivers are currently known to work on the +The 'r128' and 'ati' drivers are currently known to work on the machines with ATI Rage 128 or Radeon cards. The 'nv' driver works for machines with nVidia cards, although some modes may experience problems.