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.
>>
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