hi, it seems pygame needs a few mods to compile on *nix these days without X11 installed...
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214489
There's also this page explaining how to install pygame on a server...
http://code.google.com/p/gheat/wiki/PygameInstallation
Most of pygame works on a computer without X11. I think only the scrap
module has a dependency on it.
cu,
