ok, i have tried my way...failed miserably! Tried the easyone (Kano's script) and it installed ok, but, as soon as it was completed the screen went blank (black) no clicking, no lines ...nothing. rebooted and ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86. I did this about 15 different times ensuring that I had the nvidia driver, and tried taking out the modules 1 by 1 ( dri etc etc ) went through the entire list substituting different ones and combinations. Every time I would try to invoke kdm and the screen would go black and that was it, couldn't even get to a console. Had to reboot to get to console. Cant find the right combo i guess. what else might I try?

thank you for all your help