Hans,
I swapped out that video card for one with specs seen below.  Also, I
installed a PCI nic Kingston brand. When I invoked the startx command I got
the following:

(--) SVGA: PCI: S3 Trio32/64 rev 84, Memory ~~~~~~~~~~~
(--) SVGA: chipset: Trio64v+ rev. 54
(--) SVGA: Using new style S3 MMIO
(--) SVGA: bus type PCI
(--) SVGA: Ramdec type: S3_trio64v+ or compatible
(--) SVGA: Max RAMDEC speed for this depth: 0 MHz
Packed-pixel 24bpp depths are only supported for 868/968 chips.
(--) SVGA: generic
(--) SVGA: videoram: 2048k
(--) SVGA: clocks 25.18

(**) SVGA: 24bpp not supported for this chipset
*** A configured device found, but display modes could not be resolved.***

Fatal server error:
no screens found

Xconnection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

I'm going to try to find how to change the pixel depth to 16bpp before I
send this off.

Later...

I logged on as root and then attempted XF86Setup which failed and then
ConfigXF86 which wasn't found.  Are there distribution-specific
configuration tools for Debian?

Next I'll try to edit the XF86Config file myself.

Mark