diff --git a/package/gstreamer1/gst1-vaapi/Config.in b/package/gstreamer1/gst1-vaapi/Config.in
index ade8b83a5f..a1062097ed 100644
--- a/package/gstreamer1/gst1-vaapi/Config.in
+++ b/package/gstreamer1/gst1-vaapi/Config.in
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_GST1_VAAPI
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBDRM
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_GST1_PLUGINS_BASE
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_GST1_PLUGINS_BAD # gstreamer-codecparsers
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_XLIB_LIBX11 if BR2_PACKAGE_XORG7
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_XLIB_LIBXRANDR if BR2_PACKAGE_XORG7
 	help
 	  gstreamer-vaapi consists in a collection of VA-API based
 	  plugins for GStreamer and helper libraries.
diff --git a/package/gstreamer1/gst1-vaapi/gst1-vaapi.mk b/package/gstreamer1/gst1-vaapi/gst1-vaapi.mk
index 3d9eb91ffb..9533cdf2b6 100644
--- a/package/gstreamer1/gst1-vaapi/gst1-vaapi.mk
+++ b/package/gstreamer1/gst1-vaapi/gst1-vaapi.mk
@@ -43,8 +43,9 @@ else
 GST1_VAAPI_CONF_OPTS += -Dwayland=disabled
 endif
 
-ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_XORG7),y)
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_XLIB_LIBX11)$(BR2_PACKAGE_XLIB_LIBXRANDR),yy)
 GST1_VAAPI_CONF_OPTS += -Dx11=enabled
+GST1_VAAPI_DEPENDENCIES += xlib_libX11 xlib_libXrandr
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_HAS_LIBGL),y)
 GST1_VAAPI_CONF_OPTS += -Dglx=enabled
 else