Segfaults and crashes xmms within 1-2 seconds after starting. system details: Dual Athlon 1.2 GHz (not overclocked) Nvidia Geforce4 MX440, nvidia 2960 drivers X 4.2.0 looked like a promising plugin for the 1-2 seconds before it blows all to hell.
paste an strace or something
This is most likely a nebulus problem, nothing todo with Gentoo. Nebulus works fine here, maybe you optimized it into oblivion ?
Please try the new 0.3.0 ebuild, it's currently masked.