First of all, thank you very much for your dedication to my problem. I was quite
impressed to note that your .config has excactly the drivers for my hardware, and no other.
There is. See my sig. Use pastebin.com for .config, and post the link in your message. I'll demonstrate soon. Of course, there is much to be said about your method as well.
Ah, nice utility. I'm sorry I don't usually read signatures

. I missed a utility to compress text files into text format, and I thought
of GPG's ascii armouring. I also happened to know that GPG does compress its output, so the solution followed naturally. Only bug is
that the output is also encrypted.
There were a lot of issues with your kernel ...
Okay? I'd be very glad if you could point some of the most critical ones out. I normally
add in a few extra drivers than I would need for a running system, especially wireless cards and filesystems,
for their own reasons[1]. If the issues were with the graphics, it's probably because I've experimented quite a bit in that department,
in my attempts to make the kernel work.
I don't generally use the CLI, but I boot to it instead of booting straight to X. [...] Don't forget to emerge nvidia-drivers (if you're using X at all).
I'm not quite sure why, but I prefer to start in console mode and manually run the startx command.
For some reason, I've never liked the graphical login managers.
Now, I made mrproper (as allways) and copied your .config to the root folder of the kernel directory.
I installed the kernel and gave it only the most necessary commandline arguments from Grub.
It booted with excactly the same result as last time. No keyboard input. I tried typing right after
the "INIT: booting ... " message with no result. I can type there with my current kernel.
If you will forgive me for not trying to remove ACPI_VIDEO in your .config before posting this message,
this is what I will do right now
Anders Søndergaard
[1] Wireless cards: because my last laptop didn't have a built in wireless card, and
I had (quite a few) USB and cardbus cards lying around.
Filesystems: USB pens, and if I decided to try a different filesystem all of a sudden
