[NMLUG] X on Debian

[aaron at boim.com (Aaron Birenboim)]

I have never done Xfree86 4, and enough things have
changed that I'm lost.

I have several 3.0r1 stable (woody?) stations, none
of which have X running yet.   There must be an
easier way to do it than to research many hundreds
of WWW pages on the internals of xf86 r4.

When installing X under debian, I select the ATI driver
and frame buffer as suggested.
When I try to run X, I get "no screens"

The debian docs just point me to tools like
xf86cfg, which don't seem to help anything.

Have things gotten easier for a basic X install,
or is it still has hard to do for debian as it
was for Slackware in 1995?   I just don't have
that much time to tinker with it these days.
I'll switch to SuSE or Mandrake first.... and I really
don't want to do that.

     aaron