Giving up on Slink, moving to potato?

["Bryan K. Walton" <walton@berbee.com>]

Hi,
	I have an IBM Thinkpad 390E and have been trying to install Debian
2.1 on it for about two weeks now.  I can install it no problem, except
that I cannot get X Windows configured correctly.  I even updraded to
XFree86 3.3.5, and still can't get it to work (although I can get Red Hat
6.1 installed on it in my first try).  The problem is that I don't want
Red Hat, I want to run Debian.  I even had two linux engineers here where
I work try to get it running, and they had no success.  I have checked out
linux resources for IBM Thinkpads on the net, and have also received
much useful information from this list.  But, I think I am giving up on
slink.  I may have to move to Red Hat, even though I don't want to.  But
first I want to ask a question.  I have never used an unstable release.
(And I am also a newbie).  Is it worth giving Potato a try?  Should Potato
make this problem easier to tackle for me?  Or would the fact that it is
unstable, only make life more difficult?

Thanks,
Bryan Walton