I have Debian Etch with XFCE and I tried getting Beryl+AIGLX working on it. I managed it with the nvidia-kernel-common and nvidia-glx packages found in the repositories via apt-get.

This worked but it was considerably more glitchy than my fluent Ubuntu 6.06 with Gnome+Beryl. I thought it might be because I have a newer version of beryl and according to the help I read from another Debian user, the old drivers 8.something is not as effective as the latest 9...something. So I tried installing that, that did not work, so I installed kernel-headers for my kernel 2.6.18 and then I killed off X and GDM and was able to install the latest drivers. It worked fine but now Beryl just hung when it started up. So I installed the old drivers again (note I didn't previously apt-get remove nvidia-glx) according to the new drivers it replaced that. Next time I booted I got some strange errors, GDM/X could not boot. Fixed xorg.conf back to "vesa" and then did apt-get remove nvidia-glx and then installed the new drivers again. Got lots of errors during installation about missing stuff (from the old driver I assume) and then it worked, but also only until the next restart. Now I can't use the new or old drivers...

Is there a way I can fix this?