It just plain worked!
Emerge even identified -only- my drivers (mouse, keyboard, etc.) before I
scanned xorg.conf.
Minor problems:
1. The emerge stoped at one point because the uninstall failed to remove
an obscure library (perhaps /var/lib/xkb ? sorry, I should have noted it).
But emerge identified the directory and told me to delete it. A restart
allowed successful completion.
2. Before starting, I renamed /etc/X11 to /etc/X11old so that any
accumulated junk would be out of the picture, and so that the new
xorg.conf.example file would be clean. Heh, it doesn't build a new
xorg.conf.example file, so I copied over the old file and everything
worked - except for the rgb file.
3. My first xmessage complained of not understanding "black". So I emerged
rgb, edited the xorg.conf file, and repointed it.
RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
4. I routinely use xterm, xmessage, and xkill - all needed to be emerged.
Problem here was that eix and eix -S didn't find them, but emerge did.
5. revdep-rebuild found the missing libXaw.so.8, but crashed during
re-emergence (bad order, and something else that I did not understand). So
I emerged them one at a time in a different order, and everything worked
except for the kde office applications.
6. kde office applications depend upon kde 3.4, which I no longer have -
and revdep pointed this out :-) . This obviously is not an xorg issue, but
rather an emerge issue; allowing me to unemerge 3.3 and 3.4 a month ago,
while still having a need for their libraries if I need to recompile the
office stuff.
But I'm "guessing" that the office "libraries", available in portage, will
fix this. But I don't care right now, as the programs (e.g. word, spread)
work fine without recompiling. :-)
So thank you to Gentoo the Developers - another successful plan and
instructions on your part, that worked just fine for newbies like me!
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