Hi Matt, thanks again for your help.
You were correct ... again ... it was the old XF86Config file. It
did not list the version number but the heading read
"#Copyright (c) 1996 by the XFree86 Project, Inc"
Anything that old has to predate v.4.0.3 installed via apt-get.
I checked your old config file
[http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16/XF86Config-nv] via lynx
and could immediately see the difference ...
The error message from reboot after install had read "Device section
"Primary Card" must have a driver line"
I inserted 'Driver "nv"' in the appropriate place and rebooted. A
slightly different GUI from that before emerged but it accepted
authentification passwords and I was in. The only difference I find is
that I cannot now run Enlightenment. An error message appears saying
that I need the 'Shape' package. When I try 'apt-get install Shape' I
get the message that it cannot find it.
Any ideas ?
Adam (in a much more cheerful mood).
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