Gentlemen:

 Here's what I have found over the last day or so in trying to get to X 
functionality. This is with a computer with more then one distribution, and 
the others all have X functionality. The computer is an Intel 810 motherboard 
with the i810 integrated graphics device.

 I can see there is no /dev/mouse0 or /dev/agpgart on the Gentoo partition as 
there is on the Fedora partition, so part of the installation is incomplete.

 I copied the known functional /etc/X11/xorg.conf from the known functional 
Fedora X installation.

 When I invoke, startx, I get two errors. One has to do with the 
missing /dev/agpgart and the other has to do with the missing /dev/mouse0.

 I did try to follow the "X Server Configuration Howto" at gentoo.org with 
'emerge xorg-x11', 'env-update', 'xorgconfig' and others, but I obviously 
missed a step and my naivety is showing a little bit.

 What installation step have I missed that precluded Gentoo from creating 
these two device nodes (and perhaps some others) that keep me from getting to 
the next step, an X windows screen (forget about KDE for now, I would be 
happy just to get a pointer moving around on the screen).

Charles Krinke
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