Is this because I use to have nvidia drivers in and i have removed them??
Most likely because the X11 devel rpms are not installed.
If it is, is there anyway of repairing this?
Install the X11 devel rpms.
Checked, it's not that!
when i check the configure.log it says:
============ Checking for X11 headers presence ============ Result is: yes (using /usr/X11R6/include) ##########################################
============ Checking for X11 libs presence ============ Result is: yes (using /usr/X11R6/lib) ##########################################
============ Checking for X11 ============
#include <X11/Xlib.h> #include <X11/Xutil.h> int main(void) { (void) XCreateWindow(0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0); return 0; }
cc /tmp/mplayer-conf-7136-12478.c -o /tmp/mplayer-conf-15235-12478.o -I/usr/X11R6/include -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXext -lX11 -lnsl /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so when searching for -lXext /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.a when searching for -lXext /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
ldd /tmp/mplayer-conf-15235-12478.o ldd: /tmp/mplayer-conf-15235-12478.o: No such file or directory
Result is: no ##########################################
Cheers
Si