Great news! The 2.4.22 kernel is stable and the Forcedeth and FatX patches work perfectly! After a day of compiling nothing has gone wrong.

The even greater news is that Gentoox now supports "IGR" thanks to ICEH for pointing out Joyd! Basically, once the system is booted, the following button combinations on the Xpad (joypad/ controller) can be executed:

Back + White = REBOOT
Back + Black = HALT

More combinations will be available once I've had time to test them out (I'm thinking of one to restart Xfree and one to reload the onscreen keyboard).

If this patch interests you, run "magic" now!!!