[Alsa-user] Help with Maddog Entertainer config

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Hi all,

I'm building up a Fedora Core 3 system that I hope to use as a mythtv box.
I have a Maddog Entertainer soundcard installed and want to use its 
SPDIF output to my stereo.  I have alsa installed & configured to the 
point where I can use aplay to play various .ogg & .wav files that are
installed on the system, but I can't get sound from utilities like 
mplayer to generate any audio.  The system bell/beep also generates
an extremely annoying high-pitched buzz whenever I do something to 
trigger it (like tab completion, etc).  Can anybody suggest how to go 
about getting audio out of mplayer and how to make the system bell
sound more like it should?

Here's the version of alsa I have installed:

[root@mythtv-1 sounds]# rpm -qa | grep alsa
alsa-lib-devel-1.0.6-8.FC3
alsa-utils-1.0.6-3
alsa-lib-1.0.6-8.FC3


And my /etc/asound.conf that I got from the alsa-project website:

cm_slave.ice1724_S32_LE {
    pcm ice1724
    format S32_LE
}

pcm.ice1724_convert {
    type plug
    slave ice1724_S32_LE
}

pcm.!default {
        type plug
        slave.pcm "dmixer"
}

pcm.dmixer  {
        type dmix
        ipc_key 1024
        slave {
                pcm "hw:0,1"
                format S32_LE
                period_time 0
                period_size 1024

# increased buffer_size because in my system 1024 cause bad
# audio performance (for totem media player and mplayer)
                buffer_size 8192

                rate 44100
        }
        bindings {
                0 0
                1 1
        }
}
ctl.dmixer {
        type hw
        card 0
        device 1
}


Thanks!

-Bruce