so then i guess those guys keyboards don't have a shift key, huh? : ) (forget who kept making the keyboard : program analogies)
anyway, good! i'm getting somewhere, however i'm getting kind of tired of the debian dpkg approach. however, i'm going to make one more attempt to get a configuration program running. here's what's going on: the X server is installed (e.g. '# X' gets me into the screen) but i'm having problems with both xf86cfg and XFree86 -configure (according to the website you only use one '-' although i've tried 2 as well). xf86cfg reports that the XFree86 binary doesn't exist, and XFree86 -configure does nothing. As a highly skilled master of the obvious, i've deduced that I need to install XFree86 w/ the -configure option (or perhaps just symlink to the binary's actual location). But (although i'm just considering installing X using the methods on the XFree86 project's homepage) what debian package contains xf86cfg\XFree86\files the previously mentioned are dependent upon? thanks