KDE Blank Screen...

[Venner]

Ok, here's one for you all.

The other night on a fresh install, I did an "emerge ndivia-kernel nvidia-glx gnome fluxbox kde".
After it got done, I did the necessary editing of /etc/X11/xorg.conf and started up gnome. Works great.
Started up fluxbox. Works great.

Started up KDE....doesn't work great. The nvidia logo loads and goes away like it should, the mouse starts (and works) but all I have is a blank screen. KDE never actually loads. I tried variations 'kde' and 'kde<version number>' in /etc/rc.conf and it doesn't make any difference.

I just tried loading X with the default window manager and running 'startkde' and KDE loads fine. That's really not convenient, as this will ultimately be a multimedia PC in a home entertainment center.

Any ideas on how to get KDE to load with X?

[PovMan]

The correct rc.conf entry should say "kdm"
i believe there is a list of accepted values in a comment floating around that line.

[Roguelazer]

rc.conf controls your login manager (kdm, gdm, etc), and its default session. To setup X's default session (for what comes up with startx), just put it in ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession (or both). Those files would be shell scripts on the line of this:

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#!/bin/sh

exec /etc/X11/Sessions/kde-3.4.2

Do a ls /etc/X11/Sessions to see what's available. If you don't use the /etc/X11/Sessions stuff (not reccommended 'cause the Sessions stuff often does environment setup), you can try to manually locate the binary. For example, the fluxbox binary is /usr/bin/fluxbox, so the ~/.xinitrc for fluxbox w/o the Session folder would be this:

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#!/bin/sh

exec /usr/bin/fluxbox