Practicing what I preach, I do a Debian Lenny install

I've been meaning to do a Debian Lenny install so I can see how X behaves in a fresh installation vs. my much-older Debian partition that began life as Etch and has seen many, many packages come and go.

First things first: The Desktop installation of Lenny will not fit in 3 GB. At least the download-and-install software portion wouldn't work in that amount of space when I selected Desktop during the "task select" portion of the Lenny install.

I didn't want to make my root partition any bigger than 3 GB, so I elected to do a Standard installation, which doesn't include X or a desktop environment, although I did notice a few X11-related packages sneaking in.

After the install, I used aptitude to add X, Fluxbox and a few apps.

I started with:

aptitude install xorg fluxbox

With that line, I don't think I would've needed to add xserver-xorg, which I believe is wholly contained in the xorg megapackage. (I'll have to check this out).

I added a few items to get me going:

aptitude install iceweasel ted geany

Since then (it's been 10 or so hours), I've removed X and Fluxbox, replaced X and brought in Xfce with:

# aptitude install xfce-desktop

I had plenty of space for that.

I've also pretty much found out that my problem with "ghosting" on the screen in X continues in this new installation. It's specific to Lenny; I haven't seen it in Etch or any other Linux distro. Sometimes running xrefresh in a terminal clears things up, usually not. I can't figure out what's going on (I'm no PC video or Xorg expert), and everything I've tried hasn't worked.

I need to keep Googling until I find someone with the same problem who's smarter than I am. Shouldn't take long, I hope.