None of the later drivers work with HP-pavillion dv2000 with nvidia-6150-go (segv at startup of xorg). I want the 169-driver back into the tree.
First time I've heard about this, please remember to post your emerge --info even if you dont consider it necessary, also, I wanna see the logs of the X crash. Again, I've never heard of this before, so don't just come demanding a re-inclusion of a deprecated driver.
NVIDIA only provides their X11 drivers in a binary fashion, as such there is not much debugging or troubleshooting Gentoo can do with issues reported about them. You can use nvidia-bug-report.sh to generate some information to e-mail over to NVIDIA @ linux-bugs@nvidia.com and you may also wish to consider exploring NVIDIA's Linux driver forum @ http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14 To further assist in debugging the issue and to have more information to provide NVIDIA (and have a better chance that your issue will get fixed in the future), you can attempt to debug your X server. To debug your server properly, please follow the documentation outline here, http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/ServerDebugging The above link does not contain references to how to perform this properly on Gentoo. In a nutshell, you must rebuild X and it's libraries with USE=debug, add -ggdb to your CFLAGS, and add splitdebug to FEATURES. More information about this can be found at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml Since this bug is with nvidia-drivers, which is a package that Gentoo has minimal control over, this bug will be marked as UPSTREAM. However, in the event that you debug your X server and can produce a backtrace, please feel free to post it here and if it is unrelated to nvidia-drivers you or a Gentoo developer can re-open this bug and address the issue where it truly lies.
