ubuntu amd story: what a difference a version upgrade makes

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel shellworld net>]

A friend had installed ubuntu 6.04 on my amd-64 machine and though 
gnopernicus was run, it wouldn't work a voice couldn't be selected even 
though the sound card otherwise worked. An upgrade to 6.10 done online 
last night and a machine reboot and login however got gnopernicus working 
on that amd machine with no adjustments to the machine other than 
accessibility preferences and gnopernicus settings itself once gnopernicus 
was run.  Apparently necessary fixes had their effects.  Gnome terminal 
can't be used with gnopernicus and have it talking but the g.u.i. 
environment does talk.  We used update-manager -c in terminal mode last 
night but I'll probably use aptitude or synaptic to keep the system 
updated in the future.