LiveCD works, my kernel doesn't [SOLVED]

[r3fu53d]

Hey all,

I decided, after using Gentoo for quite a while already, to start fresh and reinstall using the latest LiveCD. Once I had everything installed and configured, I did an lspci.

On the LiveCD, lspci gives me this (edited for brevity):

[steveb]

if you don't compile the pci device name database into the kernel, then every pci device will be unknown:

[r3fu53d]

Thanks very much for your reply.

I double-checked, and I do have that compiled into the kernel Also, since my soundcard is not unknown, I would guess that isn't the problem?

I have the "AMD and nVidia IDE Chipset" support compiled in, as well, in case anyone was wondering if it was an IDE controller problem. This is driving me crazy. Any other ideas?

[r3fu53d]

I really hate to keep bumping this thread, but someone must know what I'm missing

Is there a module or service I need to run? I've run hotplug and not had it make a difference, but there seem to be other things on the LiveCD I'm not familiar with, like kudzu or hwdetect?

EDIT: Tried the "nodetect" option, and it still recognizes all of my hardware. So it isn't kudzu/hwdetect/hotplug.

[steveb]

we have not forgett you

what is the output of:

[r3fu53d]

Thanks for all your time. I've solved the problem

It seems that, during the emerge of pciutils, the updated PCI IDs were not being updated - the download was failing - and since it scrolled by so fast I didn't notice.

Thanks again for your help