On 10/11/2009 02:30 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > I wrote: > >> At the moment I am away for two days from my machine, and so I am doing >> the BIG update now. xorg-server is upgraded to 1.6.3.901-r2, I followed >> the upgrade guide and also did the libxcb stuff. I removed then kdeprefix >> use flag, unmerged all of kde-4.2, updated world, depcleaned. Now emerge >> @kde-4.3 is running. >> And then... we will see. Come on, Gentoo, surprise me, and give me a >> running KDE 4.3 desktop with X and OpenGL and mouse and keyboard. That >> would be great. > > And what I got may possibly be all of that, but I cannot see it, as the > display is just blank...
What I do when faced with an X problem is to type "X" at a console prompt and see if the bare X server starts up normally, i.e. with the black-and- white background pattern and the x-cursor. That at least will separate the kde bugs from the xorg bugs. I use startx, so doing this trick is easy for me. If you use a display manager like xdm,kdm, etc then you'll need to disable that temporarily so you can boot to a console prompt. BTW, did you generate a new xorg.conf after the upgrade?
