Re: X problem (?) after fresh install on old laptop

[Potato Jim <potatojim@rocketmail.com>]

SOLVED.

In my last response I had overlooked Sven's comment about having updated the wiki.  I have now looked at the updated wiki and the suggested new xorg.conf file did the trick -- verbatim even, and I'm now using the NV driver.  More precisely, I blacklisted nouveau in a blacklist-nouveau.conf file and created a new xorg.conf file, specifying the NV driver (I also re-blacklisted nvidiafb in /etc/modeprobe.d/fbdev-blacklist.conf ).

Camaleón and Sven, thank you both for your help!  And thanks for bearing with my newbie faux pas. :)

Sven, you mentioned that neither NV nor Nvidia legacy will work whenever I eventually upgrade to Wheezy.  Can you suggest what I prepare to do?

Thanks again!
Jim