I only had to tweak one setting to get better resolution on my monitor, and I cheated - I copied the configuration over from my Knoppix installation. Very Happy
hehe i had to do the same thing i didnt do xconfig correclty first few times around and i thought to my self. it works in knoppix , dsl , kanotix etc. so i copied it worked perfectly.

you could also give kanotix a test out for hd install. its based purely on debian sid and i havent come across any major errors at all with kanotix hd install.