No luck. Tried the googling, built xorg without hal support, still nothing but a blank screen. I grabbed the output of 'xrandr -q --verbose' in case that means anything to anyone:
http://web.mr-happy.com/xorg-7.4-200...andr-q-verbose
I dunno. I'll keep looking, but I might end up having to roll my ports tree back to pre-7.4. Bah.