slackware 10.1 gnome 2.6 and gnopernicus

[Jude DaShiell]

A sighted friend came over yesterday and got X running far enough he was 
able to use mozilla on it and go onto the internet.  He did notice some 
servers errors as I'd been hearing them earlier very shortly after startx 
had started and the computer said sound among other services might not 
work in the session.  I have sound so far as I know working on the text 
level can play sounds on the speakers.  I tried forcing startx to log 
those errors to a file using standard redirection for startx.log and that 
failed.  Has anyone managed to get startx and gnopernicus talking with 
this distro and version?  I ran test-speech in text mode and so far as I 
can tell that doesn't work either.  The install has everything put on the 
system and a desktop choice of gnome having been made.