For those who were curious, I thought I'd just provide a brief progress report.
The old "Phase 5" .deb of xserver-xfree86 worked fine. X permissions are, as someone else previously reported, in /etc/X11/Xsession instead of elsewhere. I'm running into glitches regarding available versions of gnome-panel and gnome-panel-data. I have added the idorulabs source line to /etc/apt/sources.dist. gnome-panel depends on gnome-panel-data >= 1.2.1-helix2 ; gnome-panel-data depens on gnome-panel >= 1.2.4-3. Suggestions welcome. Also, my final stupid of the day was to clean out /usr/src/linux and unload a tarball in there of a development kernel, and then read the README which tells you not to do that. Some days I can only laugh at myself. This isn't 1.0.x slackware any more, I guess. Is there an easy way to put /usr/src/linux back the way it should be, and possibly never was, quite? One more thing... does anyone here have a "favorite" kernel they're using? Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
