Success! Thanks to everyone for all your excellent help.

For the archives, here is what it took to get the system to power-off at 
  shutdown and to get X working.

In /etc/lilo.conf, I added this line to the section that boots Linux:

     append="mem=511M apm=on"

The "apm=on" turns on power management. The "mem=511M" is something I'm 
not entirely sure I need. The i810 needs to reserve 1MB of system memory 
for its own use. It used to be that you had to tell the kernel to use 
1MB less RAM than is actually installed when running with an i810. I 
don't know if that's still the case with current kernels, but I added 
the option to be sure.

The idepci kernel that I used when installing the system doesn't seem to 
make the agpgart driver available - the file agpgart.o wasn't in the 
file system and didn't appear in modconf. Searching 
http://packages.debian.org for agpgart.o showed it was in the 
base/kernel-image package. So, I used dselect to install 
base/kernel-image out of stable. I double-checked /etc/lilo.conf to make 
sure it would let me boot the new kernel and reran "lilo -v" to make 
sure everything was installed. One reboot later, I ran modconf to 
install agpgart, and X started right up.

Onward to the next thing. Thanks again for all the help!

- Jeff Cours



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