It seems that after completing the upgrade from potato to woody, that X was completely unusable. After a few hours searching around for the appropriate package, downloading and installing, I got X working again.
I am wondering if anybody has had this problem and filed a bug report on it yet? Debian is great for the install once and upgrade scheme, but something always seems to break on upgrade. Having no working GUI after an upgrade where one was installed previously seems like a pretty serious bug. -- William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada