I just finished "emerge --update --world" (that's gentoospeak for updating my system) and afterwards all my X stuff is totally broken. Reconfigured X and got it to successfully startx, (succesfully meaning with no errors displayed), the screen goes blank and then nothing. I can hear the kde startup sound in the background and if i wait until i am sure that it is booted up, I can exit kde through keyboard shortcuts, so I know that it is partially working in the background. Any suggestions on where I should go to fix this problem?

Thanks,
jrtayloriv

Try switching to a command line console;
[Ctrl][F2]
for example. Then update your Linux video drivers. Your drivers need to be recompiled for your kernel version... at least that's my guess...

I didn't update my kernel, so do you think that still might be necessary? Second, if I emerge --update KDE, will it wipe out my old configuration settings? Remove shortcuts? Remove files on desktop? Basically, what do I have to lose be re-emerging KDE?

Thanks,
jrtayloriv

I went ahead and reinstalled the nVidia drivers anyway. Still having the same problem. Any other suggestions?

Thanks,
jrtayloriv

Just to assure you, no emerge operation will wipe out any of your configuration. Remember something nice called a .keep file? This file tells portage not to touch a directory.

You might want to run etc-update and update your configuraton though...

It's nice to meet another gentooer around!

Gasper

Wow, learn something new every day . Thanks for the info on the .keep files - I had no idea that existed. Anyways, I got my problem fixed, just had to reemerge kdebase. No problems anymore.

Thanks,
jrtayloriv