> I think portage should take care of that... but obviously it doesn't > I solved the problem by rebuilding xf86-input-evdev after booting on an > unbuntu livecd then chrooting... Took some time. > As for using portage 2.2, it's listed as ~*2.2.0_alpha41, too early for me.
Make an entry in your grub.conf with gentoo=nox, so you can boot to command line. here's what mine looks like title Gentoo Linux 2.6.39-r1a root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.39-r1a root=/dev/sda3 usbcore.autosuspend=1 title Gentoo Linux 2.6.39-r1a Console root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.39-r1a root=/dev/sda3 usbcore.autosuspend=1 gentoo=nox
