[vlc] Gui won't start

[Dave]

HI - 
  I'm running vlc 0.8.1 on AMD64 in Gentoo Linux - KDE.
But I can't get the gui to start- when I type vlc, I get 

VLC media player 0.8.1 Janus
Remote control interface initialized, `h' for help

If I "vlc it.ts", it plays the video, but the usual menu options aren't there. 

This is very weird, especially since I'm running 0.8.1 on another box
and it works as expected.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance
Dave

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