I finally got 3D support working on my laptop. I have the NVidia GeForce2 card and was able to get the basic nvidia support working before, but never the 3D support. I am running kernel 2.6.7 and nvidia-kernel 1.0.6111. Here are the steps I used to get it working :)
emerge nvidia-kernel
emerge nvidia-glx
opengl-update nvidia
edit /etc/X11/XF86Config
The Driver is nvidia, not nv
Uncomment the following lines:
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
Restart X and things should work. Now if only I can get UT2004 to work. I get "Could not load OpenGL Library" when I attempt to start it. Hmm...
I got my new harddrive yesterday for my laptop, and my machine has been chugging away at source code for the past 24 hours or so. This install of Gentoo is going much smoother than the last time I did it. They seem to have stabilized a bit. The only issue I have run into so far is with gcc and glibc. I used the CD's from last September to install the base OS, and then immediately did an "emerge -ud world" to update everything. After the new compile was installed, nothing else would compile. It turns out that it is just an issue with making such a major jump in versions and I got it all straightened out thanks to the forums.
I am also running the unstable tree this time. I'm hoping to get the 3d working since before there was a version mismatch between the kernel I was running and the version of nvidia-kernel. Guess we'll just have to wait and see if it works this time.