[lug] MPlayer and ALSA

[Jason Davis]

On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 17:24 -0600, John Hernandez wrote:
> Make sure you have the alsa-lib-devel stuff installed.  On my RH-based
> distro, I have 3 packages:
> 
> alsa-lib-devel-1.0.6-8.FC3
> alsa-lib-1.0.6-8.FC3
> alsa-utils-1.0.6-3
> 
> The config.log (not sure about that name) left behind by configure may
> give more clues.  Find the part where it tests for ALSA stuff - my guess
> is that you're missing some required header files (not required for
> run-time).
> 
> 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....
> > 
> > mohadib at dune:~/mplayer/MPlayer-0.92$ ./configure
> > 
> > ....
> > 
> 

Thanks for the reply :)
I use Debian and I have libasound-dev installed. I just 
downloaded MPlayer v1.0pre7 and alsa and everything else works.

cheers,
jd