[gentoo-user] How do I get KDE to start on boot?

["Daevid Vincent" <daevid@daevid.com>]

This seems like a newb question. I've been using my Gentoo for a few years
now, and since X/KDE/Gnome/etc. never seemed to be quite stable, I always
booted into command lines and then manually 'startx' JICSH.

But I find myself almost always doing that these days, so I suppose it's
time to make the plunge so that X starts when I boot up. I'm still a bit
worried about hibernation (which I don't have working anyways - yet), I
recall there were issues with nvidia and suspending to HD/RAM if you were in
X. That could be old news?

Anyways, I can't get this to work. When I boot up, the screen is BLACK. Not
just back-lit black, but like there's no power black. If I CTRL+ALT+1, I get
to a shell prompt.

Here are some interesting areas:

*  kde-base/kde
      Latest version available: 3.5.5
      Latest version installed: 3.5.5

locutus ~ # ll /etc/X11/Sessions/   
total 28
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Nov 14 16:01 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Oct 23 18:02 ..
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 2464 Nov  8 17:31 Gnome
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 2187 Oct 23 16:56 Xsession
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   33 Apr 26  2006 icewm
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   41 Nov  8 16:19 kde-3.5
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   29 Aug 20  2004 xfce

locutus ~ # cat /etc/inittab 
...
# Default runlevel.
id:5:initdefault:
# That was '3' before and I thought I remembered it was supposed to be '5'
?!

locutus daevid # cat /home/daevid/.xinitrc 
exec startkde

locutus daevid # cat /etc/rc.conf 
XSESSION="kde-3.5"
DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm"

locutus daevid # rc-update show
		...
                 xdm |              default           
		...


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