Forgot what it said, but its definetly and people should know about it. Its easilly remedied by using -opengl. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.compile xmms with opengl in the use flag 2.run xmms in console 3.read the nice little error it gives Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.4.0, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040420-r0, 2.6.6-rc3-love4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.6-rc3-love4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.70GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.10 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -ftracer -mfpmath=sse -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -fweb -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -ftracer -mfpmath=sse -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -fweb -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acpi alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups encode esd fbcon foomaticdb gdbm gif gimpprint gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif moznocompose moznoirc mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
I had this same problem and was able to fix it. I had previously installed the nvidia drivers from nvidia's website instead of using "emerge". The problem was fixed by merging "nvidia-glx" followed by "nvidia-kernel", then executing "opengl-update nvidia". You might even want to try just executing "opengl-update nvidia" first to see if that solves your problem.
it works here... but i'm on amd64. does this problem still exist for you with the latest ebuilds?
Finally, This has been fixed in 1.2.10-r4. Marking this bug as fixed.