Lol this is how I got it to work.


# /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config
- run the X configuration utility

it wrote the new config file using an S3 video adapter to this location: /etc/X11/XF86Config


Then I copied that config file to /root and startx worked. It started right into KDE which I had previously set as the default. I think it was me choosing S3 instead of nvidia Geforce4 that made it work. I will mess around with it to make sure its working ok, but looks like it was the virtual environment that messed things up.