problems starting gnopernicus

[Cheryl Homiak <chomiak charter net>]

I'm trying to get gnome and gnopernicus up and going after several months 
of not using it. I am running debian unstable and using the nightly 
tarball of garnome which I downloaded yesterday. The version in the 
gnopernicus Makefile says 0.9.6 and the version in the gnome-speech file 
says 0.3.3. Everything appeared to compile fine.
When I try to run it braille initialization with brltty apparently fails 
and one is advised to change setting with the 
gnopernicus gui, which I might be able to do if I could at least get 
speech running.. However my setting according to gconf-tool-2 should be 
ok. 
Speech on the other hand supposedly succeeds but I never get any speech.
There also seems to be some confusion as to whether the accessibility key 
starts with /desktop or with /apps; I have examples that show it both 
ways.
1. what could be the problem?
2. Is there any place one can find current samples of what should go in 
one's .xinitrc and .gnome2/session-manual. I have two examples here: one 
from the brltty documentation and one that I was given--I think it came 
off of a website that is no longer running--and I'm wondering if there 
have been changes.
3. I see in the brltty documentation that there are "command line" options 
for setting the keys. Does this mean they can be used in one of the files 
rather than using the gconf formulas.
Thanks.

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Cheryl

"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."