lines across screen after gentoo install

[blueminder]

Hello,
I have installed Gentoo for the past day and the install works flawlessly until I boot to my Gentoo partition. What happens when it is booted is I see the boot process starting, but then a second later, lines go vertically across the screen rendering my system useless and forcing me to reboot.
I thought it may be a framebuffer program so I recompiled the kernel with only VESA framebuffers but it is no help, it comes out the same. I have a S3 Savage4 card that is 2MB if that helps any. And I used the "xfs-sources" kernel during the install for XFS support and I adjusted the functions and compiled the kernel myself.
What must I do to get the lines off my screen and a regular terminal? ???
Thanks in advance

[Compunuts]

Do you have X installed?? If so, use SVGA server instead of Mach64. Or lower your resolution for the monitor in the X configuration ( such as from 1024x768 to 800x600 with 24 bit instead of 32 bit and stuff like that ).

[blueminder]

[quote author=Compunuts link=board=1;threadid=4464;start=0#44548 date=1028530973]
Do you have X installed?? If so, use SVGA server instead of Mach64. Or lower your resolution for the monitor in the X configuration ( such as from 1024x768 to 800x600 with 24 bit instead of 32 bit and stuff like that ).
[/quote]

No, I didn't install X yet. I'm only trying to get to the console.

what happens when u disable the framebuffer entirely?

[blueminder]

[quote author=Ralinx link=board=1;threadid=4464;start=0#44618 date=1028576287]
what happens when u disable the framebuffer entirely?
[/quote]
The same thing happens when I disable framebuffer support in the kernel.

[Schotty]

Recheck you kernel configuration options, you may have missed a mainboard specific option(s). Just a thought...

[blueminder]

[quote author=ShadowMan link=board=1;threadid=4464;start=0#44628 date=1028580573]
Recheck you kernel configuration options, you may have missed a mainboard specific option(s). Just a thought...
[/quote]
Just did, I specified the processor options to go with my Duron and made sure my VIA chipset support options were checked, but sadly that was still no help.
I don't know why it shouldn't work, the stock kernels from my Slackware and Debian installations have always worked well, though when I try to compile my own, it burps on me. I've read docs on how to configure the kernel but this obstacle never seems to be jumped for me.
Anyone else had this experience before?

[Schotty]

This issue is new to me. I havent had that problem ever. I had specific cards not have support compiled in or as a module a few times by accident.