BTW, neither gtk-play nor gst-play seem to work correctly with
an out-of-the-box qemu that I just built (from master at the
time of fido release - rev 515a8b790e08a48aaf64a6b7237e2b39390e35f6)

I'm not much of an x86 user - how would I build (which $MACHINE, etc)
to run on my generic [Dell] laptop so I can test it there?