diff --git a/package/jimmy/mplayer/mplayer.conf b/package/jimmy/mplayer/mplayer.conf
index ae96daed8..a29543384 100644
--- a/package/jimmy/mplayer/mplayer.conf
+++ b/package/jimmy/mplayer/mplayer.conf
@@ -56,9 +56,11 @@ mplayer_postmake() {
 }
 
 sysconfdir="$sysconfdir/mplayer"
-confopt="--prefix=$root/$prefix --confdir=$sysconfdir --enable-menu"
-confopt="$confopt --enable-linux-devfs --with-extraincdir=/usr/include/libpng"
-confopt="$confopt --enable-fbdev --enable-largefiles --enable-shared-pp"
+confopt="--prefix=$root/$prefix --confdir=$sysconfdir"
+
+var_append confopt " " "--enable-linux-devfs --enable-menu \
+--with-extraincdir=/usr/include/libpng \
+--enable-fbdev --enable-largefiles --enable-shared-pp"
 
 if [ $arch = x86 ] ; then
 	var_append confopt " " "--with-win32libdir=$root/$prefix/lib/win32"
@@ -77,5 +79,5 @@ test -f $root/var/adm/packages/xmms && var_append confopt " " "--enable-xmms"
 test -f $root/var/adm/packages/gtk+12 && var_append confopt " " "--enable-gui"
 test "$ROCKCFG_DISABLE_NLS" = 0 || var_append confopt " " "--disable-i18n"
 
-postmake=mplayer_postmake
+hook_add postmake 5 mplayer_postmake
 
diff --git a/package/jimmy/mplayer/no-altivec.patch b/package/jimmy/mplayer/no-altivec.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f69f47ae7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/jimmy/mplayer/no-altivec.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+--- ./cpudetect.c.orig	2004-01-21 14:52:42.000000000 +0100
++++ ./cpudetect.c	2004-01-21 14:57:28.000000000 +0100
+@@ -551,6 +551,7 @@
+ /* no Darwin, do it the brute-force way */
+ /* this is borrowed from the libmpeg2 library */
+         {
++	/*
+           signal (SIGILL, sigill_handler);
+           if (sigsetjmp (jmpbuf, 1)) {
+             signal (SIGILL, SIG_DFL);
+@@ -565,6 +566,7 @@
+             signal (SIGILL, SIG_DFL);
+             caps->hasAltiVec = 1;
+           }
++	*/
+         }
+ #endif /* SYS_DARWIN */
+         mp_msg(MSGT_CPUDETECT,MSGL_INFO,"AltiVec %sfound\n", (caps->hasAltiVec ? "" : "not "));