When you build MPlayer, make sure you have the --enable-gui flag set with configure, such as: ./configure --enable-gui Also, you might want to make sure you have xorg-x11-devel package installed on your Fedora machine (that is what it was called in FC2) before you run configure, etc.. yum list xorg-x11-devel If it is in the Available packages and not in the installed packages, then install it using: yum install xorg-x11-devel Hope this helps! Russell Kaiser Russell.Kaiser@xxxxxxxxx