No screens found

[Uwe Dippel <udippel@uniten.edu.my>]

Newbie in Debian; tried 3.0r1.
Everything fine, except when it comes to startx.

Tried: 
xf86config: lack of success
dpkg-reconfigure xcommon-xfree: went through the whole process, tried
everything, always 'no screens found'
reboot: X-server cannot be started, you want to run the config ? 'Yes',
but still no success

The card is detected by lspci: PCI 01:00.0 ATI Rage 128 Pro TF

I even copied the XF86Config which works (RedHat) over to the Debian
partition /etc/X11/; with the same lack of success.

What now ?

Uwe