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>anXious only works for X 3.x. For X 4.x use xf86cfg. I think that's actually
>from the XFree86 project and not a debianism.
  I have tried everything I can think of to get X working and no dice. I 
don't know a lot about scripting,coding etc. so I think I think I have 
reached my limits. I plan to reinstall Mandrake on this box. I can get the 
nvidia to work but can't use OpenGL so I am by no means disappointed with 
Debian and will give it a shot when I get some new hardware that I can be 
reasonably certain will work!

Thanks to all for your help,
John