I checked all of the following and found them matching perfectly, in the end it was a simple change of the intel-agp module's name that had my system in fits. Thanks for all of your help everyone.
Now on to setting up the new sound system... > > Check /etc/udev/50-udev.rules. You should have a line that says: > > KERNEL="agpgart", NAME="misc/%k", SYMLINK="%k" > > A quick explanation of how udev works may help you find the real problem > here: > > For drivers compiled into the kernel, their device nodes get created > either: > > 1. permanently by creating the device nodes manually and using the > tarball feature in /etc/conf.d/rc > > 2. When udevstart is executed by /sbin/rc during startup > > For modules, the device nodes are created when the kernel runs > /sbin/udevsend when the module is loaded. You *must* have hotplug > support in the kernel for this though. > > You can cause udev to generate debug messages by setting "udev_log = 7" > in /etc/udev/udev.conf. The debug output goes to /var/log/messages. > > > >>-genkernel --udev --menuconfig all will not show me an option that refers >>to AGP anything, is this a bus? >> >> > > Well, in the normal kernel configuration, It is under "Device > drivers->Character devices->/dev/apgart". > > You need both AGPGART and the chipset specific driver. For example, my > config has: > > carcharias linux # grep AGP /usr/src/linux/.config > CONFIG_AGP=y > # CONFIG_AGP_ALI is not set > # CONFIG_AGP_ATI is not set > # CONFIG_AGP_AMD is not set > # CONFIG_AGP_AMD64 is not set > CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=y > # CONFIG_AGP_NVIDIA is not set > # CONFIG_AGP_SIS is not set > # CONFIG_AGP_SWORKS is not set > # CONFIG_AGP_VIA is not set > # CONFIG_AGP_EFFICEON is not set > >>-I tried compiling the kernel directly once and got a kernel panic, I >>don't remember if AGP was mentioned in that case. >> >> >> > > Most common cause of this is not compiling the required drivers for your > root filesystem (disk and filesystem drivers) into your kernel. Such > drivers cannot be modules without a great deal of effort. > > -Richard > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
