Bill, thanks I'll try that. As things stand startx got me an error log didn't think much of my screen selection and was missing a core pointer.
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Bill Haneman wrote: > Hi Jude: > > Don't use twm or icewm as window managers - for best results you'll want > to install and run the Gnome desktop env which includes the metacity > window manager. Starting "gnome-session" after startx may work for > you. > > regards > > Bill > > On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 01:00, Jude DaShiell wrote: >> So far earlier today I had a non-graphical system as a base line. After >> having done aptitude update and aptitude upgrade and installing all >> upgrades I decided to try installing xserver-xorg and gnopernicus to see >> if they'll play nicely together. So, aptitude install xserver-xorg >> --with-recommends then aptitude install gnopernicus --with-recommends got >> me a few megs worth of files installed. Upon rebooting I noticed speakup >> still comes up and whatever x environment may or may not be functional on >> this system did not attempt to start and fail. Much nicer than installing >> debian desktop from tasksel. Some other notes I chose isa:1 for monitor >> type and told the system to talk to the monitor for further information >> and not use the frame buffer to get its information. This is a pretty >> modern monitor and definitely not an rgb model either. So before I try >> running startx and then running gnopernicus -s to see if the X environment >> wants to talk is there anything else I neglected to do? The sound card is >> functional and plays podcasts fine and I ran alsa-conf and alsactl store >> against it earlier too. I've heard twm is a disaster and don't know if >> that is installed or not and can get icewm for this system too if it would >> work better for this level of accessibility. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnome-accessibility-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list > _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
