The xorg.conf file will be of no help by now. That file was already confirmed as normal and was able to run another debian user's xserver when they edited it for their own installation (their equipment isn't identical to mine). I found out all the paths to the font files are correct too. What doesn't yet exist though is the /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/fonts.alias file. Once that's created correctly I may well be in operation over here (knock on wood). For some reason a tasksel installation didn't create this file and put it in the right place either. I have some email to write to the people over at http://wiki.X.org/ too. Their writing on error faqs has inconsistencies in it that are unnecessary.
