Custom Kernel and Swap

Debian (Squeeze) runs with a blank fstab. I am not sure exactly where the magic is on that but when I upgrade my kernel and use make-kpkg --initrd to put it all together I lose my swap. So I know could add it to the fstab to make it work but I am wondering what is set different in my kernel that

Squeeze remote X11 and GL

I have done some searching and can't seem to find an answer anywhere. This worked fine on Lenny and it is testing ok with Ubuntu Natty. If I am running squeeze be it native or in a chroot, ppc or i386, I can get applications to xhost from it but not opengl applications. So loading xterm pops up