Re: Gentoo on Vaios

> how does gentoo/user choose the kernel version that is used when
installing?

Look in /usr/portage/sys-kernel/

You can choose to emerge any of the sources in there (I guess I would
suggest either gentoo-sources or vanilla-sources.  Once you pick what
you want to use, do an 
emerge -p <insert name>-sources"
and it will tell you what version it is going to use.  All the "emerge"
does is download the kernel source, apply whatever patches, and install
it into /usr/src/<name>, which you must then symbolically link to
/usr/src/linux and build in the normal fashion.

Hope that clears things up.

--Antares