What have I gotten myself into??

Currently looking into the following things:

• Wikis
• LDAP (OpenLDAP on OpenBSD)
• Samba (in association with LDAP on OpenBSD)
• Gentoo Linux (as a desktop)
• VPN (OpenVPN on OpenBSD)

Today was mainly Gentoo Linux in my spare time at work. I'm looking at dual booting my work computer between MS WinXP Pro SP2 and Gentoo Linux 2007.0. I gave the live CD a shot but it didn't go so well. I booted the system and was met with no GUI and some error about GDM or X Server or something... Anyway, the short of it was that it's an issue with having an ATI graphics card. I need to use the ATI proprietary drivers to get it going but I didn't get time to finish that before leaving work nor did I get time to wipe my system and do a clean install of the system. I'm going to build up a test machine at home in a tick with an ATI graphics card and see if I can get it going. If you know anything about this, PLEASE TELL ME!!! Ta.