Request for help setting up Gnopernicus

[max tappenden net]

Hi all,

My name is Max Tappenden. I am 16 years old and am visually impaired. I
have been referred to this list by my IT teacher to get some help setting
up gnopernicus on Ubuntu 5.10.

Firstly, I'd like to say that I am primarily a mac user and am a great fan
of OS X. I also have had to use Windows as it is required of me by certain
people at school to run some software, particularly in Maths... I run
several web servers and these run CentOS or FreeBSD and have grown
familliar with some linux commands, although I have most of the work done
on them by other people. So, pretty much a newbie with Linux. I was
advised by my IT teacher to try Ubuntu and so this is what I am running.
I've managed to get my wireless connection working and was pretty
impressed with how it recognized all of my hardware, not requiring me to
find drivers for anything on my Samsung P28 laptop. Now I am trying to get
Gnopernicus running. I have installed it using Synaptic. When trying to
run it I found that the magnifier was unavailable. After doing some
reading I found that I needed to have gnome-mag installed before I could
use the magnifier in gnopernicus, and so I installed this through
Synaptic. Now when I start the magnifier I'm presented with an
(apparantly) magnified image in the top center of the screen... It has a
black crosshair, and a large cursor, but everything else just shows up in
black and white. I haven't got any further than this. Can anyone here help
me with the configuration of gnopernicus? Also, from looking at what I
have so far it seems that this only magnifies a part of the screen much
like the Windows Magnifier. Is this correct? I am used to Universal Access
Zoom which is included with MacOS X and ZoomText 8 on a PC, both of which
use full-screen magnification. Is this not possible on linux, or at least
not with this application? Please advise...

Thank you
Max Tappenden