Can't even get a command line at reboot

[bgen]

I installed Gentoo about a week ago, from the two cd set I bought from the Gentoo Store. All went well except at the reboot after the install. Grub boots me up, but apparently my video card isn't coming up. I get a blue rectangle in the middle of the screen that says out "of range h: 29.2k V: 70.5." So far I haven't been able to even get to a login prompt or a command line. I've searced the forums and googled the message but nothing I've found works.

I recompiled the Kernerl, thinking that maybe I overlooked something, following the ati instructions I found on this forum, but nothing changed. Default runlevel in inittab is at 3, I can't believe that my machine won't even work in VGA mode. Haven't even got to the point where I could install anything from the second cd, I'd just like to at least get to a command line instead of having to use the installation or knoppix cd to get into it.

Anyone know what I overlooked or have any suggestions?

Ben

[oumpah-pah]

Do you use framebuffer? If so, maybe you should try plain VGA mode instead. If it works, you can then try and solve the framebuffer problem...

[bgen]

Didn't work. I think maybe it's looking for the video card in the agp slot, which is empty. The video card I'm using is in a pci slot. When I get time I'll try working that angle and see if that will work.

Ben