debian packages

[Jude DaShiell]

erasing /var/lib/dpkg/info/xorg.conf.md5sums as well as /etc/X11/xorg.conf 
and all backups of /etc/X11/xorg.conf.* just generated the same error 
output as was happening before when dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg was run. 
The debian version of X is so far as I can tell very broken.  The thing 
is, I had superuser access at the time I did all of this.  The only other 
thing left to try is real root access from login while the system is off 
line to do this configuration.  If that doesn't work, I have no more 
ideas.