Neil Bothwick <neil <at> digimed.co.uk> writes:
> That sounds a good guess, what does the Xorg.log show? Well KDE4 is working fine now. dev-python/sip was the key. Somehow none of the updates(syncs) actually updated it to the latest stable version (4.8.2) So dev-python/PyQt4 and hence some of the kde-meta packages were borked. A long journey. Caveat: Don't to 8 months without an update (was I that hard headed in grad school)....? too long ago to remember.... I use to tell everyone I was smart. this one ate my lunch and then some..... thanks to all that help... James