[GRASSLIST:965] Importing a Scanned Map?

[cmarshall]

I am new to GRASS and just getting started.  I have a scanned image of a 
USGS topographic map that I would like to start with and have been 
working through the tutorial in grass50_tutorial_en.pdf.  On page 79 
step "d.", second bullet it says "Change to the GRASS monitor.  Here 
display the imported map."  How is this done?  I have launched "d.mon 
x0" in step c.  run i.points as stated at the beginning of step d. and I 
have a blank monitor screen.  Now what?  Anything I have been able to 
think of to get a map display either just doesn't work or generates a 
error.  It seems there is a bit of "magic" here that is not explained.
      The scanned image was imported with r.in.tiff.  r.in.gdal seg 
faults every time I run it.  I have also converted the image to PNG and 
r.in.png blows up because it is asking specifically for libpng.so.2.  
The Linux installation is Mandrake 9.1 just freshly installed. 

Chris Marshall