I would send off an email to the debian list about your nVidia card. 
 Someone within an hour or so should be able to tell you if they have 
gotten it working well under Debian.  Also, irc.openprojects.net #debian 
will do wonders.

Derek

John W wrote:

>
>>
>> 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
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