debian and gnopernicus

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel shellworld net>]

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.