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On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Kevin O'Gorman<kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
> End result: I get a recognizable kde login screen.
> Problems: neither keyboard nor mouse is functional in X.  Coming soon
> to a thread near here.
>

In that case the gentoo docs here:

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.5-upgrade-guide.xml

annd this mailing list's archive should be helpful, as there have been
probably dozens of threads about that same problem. :)