On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 06:17:29 -0800, Dan wrote:

> This, I believe, is the crux of my problem: X11 is not listening on port 6000
> of my gentoo boxes. With other distibutions, this is default bahavior, but
> apparently it's not default for X running on gentoo. What do I need to do
> to get X11 listening on port 6000?

Probably because there is a message at the end of emerge xfree that says:
#tail -n 20 /usr/portage/x11-base/xfree/xfree-4.3.0-r3.ebuild
ewarn "Listening on tcp is disabled by default with startx."
ewarn "To enable it, edit /usr/X11R6/bin/startx."