Kernel not recognizing your hardware? Problems with power management or PCMCIA? What hardware is compatible with Gentoo? See here. (Only for kernels supported by Gentoo.)
I am using hibernate script to hibernate to disk and I have configured it to use fbsplash. Is it normal that I do not get the splash image while the pages are saved to disk and then while they are restored? (I do see the splashscreen during stoping/starting services).