emerge --info lists the options that emerge --sync uses on its invocation of rsync. I've used that before to sync a second root on a single box without any major issues.

syslog.h is provided by glibc, but the libraries are provided by a syslog daemon. There are a few packages that provide the syslog daemon and libraries.

To see if you have any of them installed, run:

equery list | grep 'sysk\?log'

The two most common ones are syskolgd and syslog-ng. If you don ...

I had the same exact problem with my Ultra 10, running ATI Rage gfx card.

I followed the xorg.conf listed in this thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-174481.html and got it working fine

select parts of my xorg.conf:


Section "Module"
...
Load "cfb32"
EndSection


Section "Device ...