no go on manual start with startx, it goes to load it up (black screen to what would be the xfree login) then it goes back to the command line
XFree86 Version 4.3.0.1
Release Date: 15 August 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.22-gentoo-r7 i686 [ELF]
Build Date: 04 March 2004
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Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Sun Apr 4 16:27:19 2004
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config"
NV: could not open control device /dev/nvidiactl (No such device)
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module!
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
there's the log. Oddly it says the old kernel at the top instead of the current one but that's the error message.
And alothough i havent done a kernel complie, I do know that i did my make dep && make (name) modules_install, and make && make modules_install