[gentoo-amd64] GDM hates me

[Peter Davoust]

Ok, while I realize that GDM cannot "hate" me, I've been trying to ditch
SuSE10.2 for the past day, and when I install Gentoo, then reboot, it boots
properly, init launches everything it needs to, and then the screen goes
blank. I wait for a while, press the touchpad enable/disable button (it has
a light and if it ceases to function I know my OS has crashed), and it's
working. Then I wait a while, and still nothing. I try ctrl+alt+ backspace,
and that's when the fun starts. It crashes, completely locked up, at a
totally black screen. Only the lcd backlight is on. I've tried this with
Gentoo and Fedora, and Elive and Xandros do the same thing on livecd's. I'm
thinking gdm is causing my problems, so just for fun I tried Fedora sans
Gnome and only KDE, but alas: squat. It did the exact same thing. This
really ticks me off, because I've once again built up my appreciation for
Gentoo, and I'm ready to try it again, but it's failing. Not only that, but
every other distro I try fails me too, except SuSE, and I don't want to be
stuck with it for the next few weeks. I have a Compaq Presario v6000, amd
Turion64 x2, Nvidia graphics card, 120 gig hard disk with a good 20 gig
free. 2 gig ram. An interesting thing is that the Gentoo livecd boots just
fine, but it, as I understand, uses xdm as it's login manager. Help? Please?

-Peter