2) If you choose to enable "/dev file system support (OBSOLETE)" then make sure you DO NOT ENABLE "Automatically mount at boot"... this totally (and magnificently) screws up your boot process when you "emerge udev" (which you should do) later on.
I couldn't get devfs to work at all. There seems to be a problem with it on certain releases. udev works but follow the instructions on the udev page. (Mind you I also had problems with shadow and pam-login, sigh, and I wasn't the only one.)
3) Choosing the right compiler options in make.conf really makes a difference! I'm attaching my make.conf. Like I commented in the code, the CFLAGS came from:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7012
and the USE flags are slightly modified, but originally came from:
http://vincent.strubel.free.fr/gentoo-pb/files/make.conf
Also useful to know...
4) X takes a long time to compile, and when done, Xconfigure didn't work (complained that it couldn't find my mouse or somesuch. So, attaching my xorg.conf... you'll have to tweak the screen/monitor settings, because you have an ATi card, and we 12-inch people have Nvidia.
I'm trying to get X working at the moment. It took 3.5 hours to get X to compile on the old iMac here, that's without the extras that're needed for things like XFCE4.
There's something on a webpage that says that udev uses /dev/input/mouse0 (or mice). Comparing this with my old Gentoo-1.4 installation, the newer xorg stuff hasn't picked up a lot of the things that X11 did (like this).
Many thanks for the info - I know it's in reply to another question but this is neat! Ta muchly.
Rod
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