Need help installing. Have a video problem

[sincityharley]

I am just about done installing Gentoo on a Dell GX240. I have been following the install handbook as best I can. I am now on step 11. Finalizing your Gentoo Installation. I rebooted my pc as the handbook described and when it came back up the video was way off. I don’t know how to explain it better than that but I have included a photo of the screen. I am very new to Linux as in this is only my second attempt to install Gentoo and I have no other experience with Linux at all. If someone could tell me what I am missing or what step I missed I would really appreciate it. Thanks

The image is here http://www.sincityharley.com/images/gentooimage.jpg

[dasmius]

what kernel did you use to do the install and did you do the make menuconfig yourself or did you use genkernel or something like that? I just finished my first install of Gentoo it took me a few days to get all the way through it with gnome and everything working.

[sincityharley]

I did use genkernel. Could it be that genkernel didnt detect my video card properly? was there a step that I missed with regards to specifying my video card?

[dasmius]

Possibly, I didn't hit problems with video and stuff till i went to install gnome. That's when I ran into problems. But I didn't use genkernel. I manually did it and just left it at normal. When I tried to use the livecd install it kept failing at the downloading genpatches portion so...I went totally command line and did the kernel compile myself.

[sincityharley]

any idea how I can i start over compiling the kernel manually without actaully reformatting and starting all over?

[dasmius]

# cd /usr/src/linux
#make menuconfig
(setup your kernel options)
#time make -j2
#make modules_install
#env-update


I think thats it

[dasmius]

i forgot a bit of the stuff heres the kernel stuff

# cd /usr/src/linux
# make menuconfig
(configure your kernel)
# time make -j2
# make modules_install
# cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/kernel

if you need more help let me know.