[MPlayer-users] Inconsistent & Strange Running Behavior

[mpierce]

Debian Woody 3.0 stable system. 
Mplayer-0.90.tar.bz2 compiled using gcc-2.95

Know the standard answer, have done it and been compiling program since
there was a RH5.1.

Problem, mplayer has compiled fine and works but will not work from a
terminal or even a script call, i.e., mplayer -ao oss -vo xv

Mplayer will work perfectly if I click on the menu bar and launch it
from the menu using the run command, grun mplayer. 

When launched from terminal, program never fully loads. Output:
mpierce at libranet:~$ mplayer -ao oss -vo xv &
[1] 11380
mpierce at libranet:~$ Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/local/share/locale


MPlayer 0.90rc5-2.95.4 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Tualatin (Family: 6, Stepping: 1)
Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE

Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or
directory
Reading config file /home/mpierce/.mplayer/config
[cfg] read config file: /home/mpierce/.mplayer/gui.conf
Reading config file /home/mpierce/.mplayer/gui.conf
Warning unknown option vo_dxr3_device at line 6
vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0" => local
display)
Reading /home/mpierce/.mplayer/codecs.conf: 49 audio & 130 video codecs
Font /home/mpierce//.mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206
chars)
Failed to open /dev/rtc: Permission denied (mplayer should be setuid
root or /dev/rtc should be readable by the user.)
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /home/mpierce/.mplayer/input.conf : No such
file or directory
Can't open input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf : No such
file or directory
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config
SKIN dir 1: '/home/mpierce/.mplayer/Skin'
SKIN dir 2: '/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin'

Have to do a killall -9 mplayer to close.

~/.mplayer/config has:
# Write your default config options here!
gui=yes
skin=Orange
ao=oss
vo=xv
cache=8192

Thoughts, suggestions, comments and help...