I'm searching the web to solve this but for now without any effect.
this is kernel-independent problem I believe. Problems for sure with alsa
and ptty(?)- not sure what is responsible for xterm or any other term in
X - none of them opens.
when the system starts on both selinux-sources (2.4) and
gentoo-dev-sources (2.6) with the gentoo=nodevfs (and no /dev in the
kernel compiled) I see error "unable to set user font and on the machine
on which I have X (2.6) I cannot enable sound nor open xterm etc. I did
MAKEDEV update in /dev but it says it doesn't know "alsa" and trying to.
How to fix these? god knows what other devices are missing. I found a text
about ./snddevices but I don't have it (it is supposed to be in
alsa-driver which of course I don't have due to kernel 2.6)