The current mplayer ebuild is missing an useflag for the VESA video output driver. I'd suggest "video-vesa".
mplayer-1.0_pre8 and later will also require the addition of a vesautils [1] ebuild to support the vesa output driver, and a dependancy on sys-libs/lrmi. The configure.log output for VESA in pre8 is: ============ Checking for VESA support ============ #include <vbe.h> int main(void) { vbeVersion(); return 0; } cc -O4 -D__STDC_LIMIT_MACROS -march=pentium-m -mtune=pentium-m -pipe -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -o /var/tmp/portage/mplayer-1.0_pre 8-r1/temp/mplayer-conf-9142-19836.o /var/tmp/portage/mplayer-1.0_pre8-r1/temp/mplayer-conf-12916-19836.c -lvbe -llrmi /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lvbe collect2: ld returned 1 exit status ldd /var/tmp/portage/mplayer-1.0_pre8-r1/temp/mplayer-conf-9142-19836.o ldd: /var/tmp/portage/mplayer-1.0_pre8-r1/temp/mplayer-conf-9142-19836.o: No such file or directory Result is: no ########################################## [1] http://www.mplayerhq.hu/vesautils/
Created attachment 100755 [details] Ebuild for libvbe I've created an ebuild for libvbe. This is the part of vesautils that mplayer needs for its vesa output driver. I suggest the name media-libs/libvbe. I wasn't able to create an ebuild for the whole vesautils package, because it does not seem ready yet: The Makefile requires C files that don't exist in the repository. The ebuild will need an SVN snapshot. Create it like this: svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/vesautils/trunk/libvbe libvbe tar cvjf /usr/portage/distfiles/libvbe-`date +%Y%m%d`.tar.bz2 libvbe libvbe has a dependency on sys-libs/lrmi. Unfortunately, this very package includes a file vbe.h, which conflicts with vbe.h from libvbe. I solved this by installing vbe.h as libvbe/vbe.h, resulting in the need to modify the mplayer source accordingly (see next attachment).
Created attachment 100756 [details, diff] Patch for mplayer-1.0_pre8-r1.ebuild to use libvbe Apply this patch to the current mplayer ebuild (1.0_pre8-r1) and you'll be able to use the vesa output driver (if you enable the new vesa use flag).
Created attachment 103295 [details, diff] Patch for mplayer-1.0_rc1.ebuild to use libvbe I've modified the patch for 1.0_rc1
The libvbe ebuild does not symlink libvbe.so.0 to libvbe.so which causes the mplayer build to die with "/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lvbe". Apart from that, good work!
I dont think we'll be adding libvbe in the tree, since development upstream seems dead anyway (last commit 8 months ago as of this writing, no activity on ML).
