no video ? on X11 gtk 2.80 Slackware 8

[cdowns]

Im running vlc version 2.80 on slackware 8, Im not getting video but i
can hear the movie as it plays. here is a cut from the my term:

cdowns at scavenger:~$ vlc &
[1] 182
cdowns at scavenger:~$ VideoLAN Client - version 0.2.80 Ourumov -
(C)1996-2001 VideoLAN

input: playing at normal rate

Is there something im missing ?

cdowns at scavenger:~$ ls -l /dev/dvd
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           10 Jul 21 03:46 /dev/dvd ->
/dev/cdrom
cdowns at scavenger:~$ls -l /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            8 Jul 19 13:43 /dev/cdrom ->
/dev/hdc
cdowns at scavenger:~$ ls -l /dev/hdc
brw-r-----    1 root     disk      22,   0 May  8  1995 /dev/hdc
cdowns at scavenger:~$ls -l /dev/dsp
crw-rw-rw-    1 root     sys       14,   3 Jul 18  1994 /dev/dsp
cdowns at scavenger:~$groups
users sys disk
cdowns at scavenger:~$

thanks in advance

-D