Hello,
What happens is when I boot up kernel-2.6.28-gentoo-r5 all the kde stuff (4.2.4) shows up. When I boot a newer kernel, either kernel-2.6.29-gentoo-r5 or kernel-2.6.30-gentoo-r4 my kde menu bar across the bottom of the screen is gone. I still get a few kconsole sessions that always start upon booting up, but all of the other kde tools seem to be missing or hidden. All of this on a change in the selected kernel from grub, no other changes: If I reboot the kernel-2.6.28-gentoo-r5 it all shows up again. I've built these newer kernel like I always do make menuconfig (make && make modules_install) so I'm not sure what I should look at to fix this. any ideas? James