If these suggestions don't get you much farther, you'll probably want to post some details about your system (video card, amount of RAM on the video card, which version of Debian, which version of X, any WWarnings or EErrors in /var/log/XFree86.0.log, etc).
Sorry, I'm not yet an advanced Linux desktop user. This is what I found:
Installed: Debian testing
Linux version 2.4.26-1-686 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.3 (Debian 20040401)) #1 Sat May 1 18:04:05 EST 2004
lspci: VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 05)
/var/log/XFree86.0.log: <snip> SetClientVersion: 0 7 (II) Open APM successful (==) MGA(0): Write-combining range (0xf2000000,0x2000000) (II) MGA(0): vgaHWGetIOBase: hwp->IOBase is 0x03d0, hwp->PIOOffset is 0x0000 (==) MGA(0): Default visual is TrueColor (II) MGA(0): [drm] bpp: 32 depth: 24 (II) MGA(0): [drm] Sarea 2200+664: 2864 drmOpenDevice: minor is 0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenDevice: minor is 0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: Open failed [drm] failed to load kernel module "mga" (II) MGA(0): [drm] drmOpen failed (EE) MGA(0): [drm] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI. (II) MGA(0): Using 4642 lines for offscreen memory. (**) MGA(0): DPMS enabled (II) MGA(0): Using overlay video (==) MGA(0): Direct rendering disabled (==) RandR enabled (II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded </snip>
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