diff --git a/evince.spec b/evince.spec
index 8a0ed54..78908b6 100644
--- a/evince.spec
+++ b/evince.spec
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ autoreconf
 %configure --disable-static --disable-scrollkeeper \
 	--with-print=gtk \
 	--enable-comics=yes \
-	--enable-dvi=yes \
+	--enable-dvi=no \
 	--enable-djvu=yes
 make %{?_smp_mflags}
 
@@ -165,6 +165,8 @@ fi
 %changelog
 * Mon Nov 26 2007 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com> - 2.20.1-5
 - Fix a problem in the tiff patch
+- Turn off the dvi backend for now, since the tetex kpathsea 
+  gives linker errors on x86_64
 
 * Sat Nov 17 2007 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com> - 2.20.1-4
 - Enable the dvi and djvu backends