[nmglug] MPlayer and ALSA

Tue May 3 09:51:01 PDT 2005

On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 12:36 -0600, Jason Davis wrote:
> Hello,
>  I am trying to compile MPlayer on box with a nforce2 chipset. I am
> using ALSA for sound. XMMS and Xine work fine with ALSA. However when I 
> configure MPlayer it tells me ALSA support is disabled....

Look at the log file generated by configure, and see what it was looking
for when it tested for ALSA support.  You may need to install an
interface library's headers package.