Gentoo 2006.1 Install Updates

I assume some people might have had questions from the last post. Here's some specs of my "workstation":

1x DFI LanParty NF4 SLI-DR
1x Athlon64 X2 4200
2x 1GB OCZ Titanium
2x 74GB Western Digital Raptors
1x 36GB Western Digital Raptor
1x XFX GeForce 7800 GTX


I'm still having trouble getting the Sil3114 Raid Array to detect. Dmraid detects the controller, but the devices don't mount. It gives me an error code that I'll post later.

Genkernel isn't as bad as some people make it out to be. I really don't know what the big deal is. If you are going to want to use an initrd/initramfs, then genkernel makes your life a whole lot easier.

I couldn't mount other drives after I booted. I figured out that using the block devices directly under /dev was giving me the message that they were either busy or already mounted. Turns out you gotta use the block devices under /dev/evms. Everything works gravy then.

I have a dual core machine. Something having to do with a broken ACPI implementation apparently makes my machine act all funky. In X, I'll get very odd mouse behavior, and the keyboard will repeat strokes "at random". I recompiled the kernel again, and changed that one timer for events or some shit from 1000hz to 250hz. I also compiled psmouse as a module, and loaded it setting the rate to 80. I also set the internal timing mechanism to PIT. I'll edit these things with the proper specifics later, but if you look around you'll probably see where I mean. I found that information in the forums. I don't know if any one of them actually did it, since I did all three at once. I think the key culprit was the timing mechanism.